About

Lily Greenberg is a poet from Nashville, Tennessee and the author of In the Shape of a Woman (Broadstone Books 2022).

Lily’s work has appeared in New England Review, Image Journal, Ecotone, On the Seawall, Eco Theo Review, Sun Dog Lit, Foglifter, and Kissing Dynamite Poetry, among others. She is a 2024 Puschcart Prize winner, a 2023 prize winner of the Iron Horse Literary Review‘s National Poetry Month contest, the recipient of the 2021 Dick Shea Memorial Prize, judged by Jennifer Millitello, and the 2021 Dawkins Prize for Best MFA Poetry Manuscript at the University of New Hampshire. Lily’s poetry has received support from Bread Loaf Writer’s Conference, ArtsWestchester, Arts Council of Rockland, Maine Writers and Publishers Alliance, and the University of New Hampshire, and has been nominated for Best of the Net and The Pushcart Prize. Lily’s manuscript-in-progress, What You’ve Called in Here is Wild, has been a finalist for eight contests including the Alice James Book Award, Copper Nickel Jake Adam York Prize, and the Colorado Book Prize, among others.

Lily’s professional career has involved content and technical writing for universities, academics, nonprofits, and small businesses. Her specialties include grant writing and coordination, content strategy for websites and communications, and literary arts events programming + production.

Lily completed her MFA at the University of New Hampshire (UNH) in 2021, where she served as Graduate Assistant in Communications for the UNH Graduate School and Editor for the Research Development Office. She also served as Editor-in-Chief of Barnstorm Journal from 2019-2021. She has designed and led poetry workshops for the North Country Young Writer’s Festival and New Hampshire Poet Laureate Program, as well as assistant taught poetry courses at the University of New Hampshire and Gordon College. Following graduate school, Lily spent a year in Portland, Maine where she directed communications for an addiction recovery nonprofit and organized poetry readings in the city of Portland.

Lily lives in Nyack, New York where she works in grants management for Columbia University and serves as Advisory Committee Member for the Hudson Valley Writers Center’s Slapering Hol Press as well as Board Member for Arts Council of Rockland and Advisory Committee Member for the Rockland County Poet Laureate Program of which she is the co-founder. She also organizes literary arts programs in Nyack through All Ways Writing Collective, of which she is the founder.