About

Lillian is a writer in the DC area. Her stories have appeared in Variant Literature, Joyland Magazine, Ricepaper Magazine, Passengers Journal, and Obelus Journal. Additionally, she publishes weekly essays on her Substack, The Lillian Review of Books.

Her fiction has been anthologized in What We Remember, What We Forget: The Best Young Artists and Writers (Scholastic 2012) and America’s Best Emerging Writers (Z Publishing 2018).

Lillian is a winner of Variant Literature’s 2022 Pizza Prize, judged by Aram Mrjoian. She received a third place prize in Joyland Magazine’s 2021 Open Borders Fiction Contest, judged by T Kira Madden. Her work was longlisted for the Masters Review’s 2022 Flash Fiction Contest. In 2010, she received a Silver Medal for poetry, a Gold Medal for fiction, and the American Voices Medal for fiction from the national Scholastic Art and Writing Awards.

Lillian studied Classics at the University of Chicago, where her bachelor’s thesis on Plato’s Symposium was awarded honors. She works as an assistant managing editor at the high-impact, multidisciplinary journal the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences in Washington, DC, where she leads a team of editorial assistants, coordinators, and senior coordinators. She has been recognized as a Society for Scholarly Publishing 2022 Early Career Fellow.

She is Korean, Chinese, and Jewish.