Lily Parker is a writer of short fiction and plays whose work has been published in The Saturday Evening Post, Bodega Magazine, and elsewhere. She will earn her MFA in fiction from Brooklyn College in the spring of 2027, and is currently at work on a debut collection. A graduate of Barnard’s English & Creative Writing program, she is the recipient of the 2020 Brandt Playwriting Award and the 2022 Howard M. Teichmann Writing Prize. She was born in Washington, D.C. and lives in Manhattan with her cat Midge.