Writer, Editor, Scholar

Lillian Lippold (they/them) is a writer of fiction and criticism who believes in a new Midwestern regional literature.

They are a recent graduate from NYU’s Gallatin School of Individualized Study, where they concentrated in Regional American Place Writing and minored in Performance Studies. There, they recieved the coveted Léo Bronstein Award for excellence in interdisciplinary study of the arts. Their work focuses on the American Midwest, its history, and how regional affect can be performed by regional fiction. They’re currently querying a Minnesota novel and a South Dakota novella, while their shorter writing has been published in some lit mags (Confluence, The Ana, Bryant Literary, Gallatin Review, etc) and on Substack (What Rhymes With Butch). They’ve interned at City Lights Bookstore, W.W. Norton, and AURORE and currently co-moderate a lesbian-only writing workshop through the Lesbian Herstory Archives in Brooklyn, NY. They live in Chicago.

Photographed in Providence, RI by Hannah Suzanna, 2021.

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