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, The Rumpus, Ecotone, On the Seawall, Eco Theo Review, Sun Dog Lit, Foglifter, and Kissing Dynamite Poetry, among others. She is a 2024 Puschcart Prize winner and the 2023 prize winner of the Iron Horse Literary Review‘s National Poetry Month contest. 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 nine contests including the Alice James Book Award, Copper Nickel Jake Adam York Prize, and the Colorado Book Prize, among others.

Beyond her own poetry, Lily is a skilled educator and arts organizer. With an MFA in Poetry from the University of New Hampshire and a decade of experience in nonprofit communications, grants, and administration, Lily has built a multitude of literary arts programs in the various places she has lived. In her current community of Nyack, New York, Lily is the founder/director of All Ways Writing Collective, a nonprofit network of writers supporting writers, which has established numerous partnerships in the lower Hudson Valley. Lily also led an initiative to reinstate the Rockland County Poet Laureate Program with poet H.E. Fisher and the Arts Council of Rockland—the program was reinstated in 2025. Lily serves as Board President of the Arts Council of Rockland (ACOR) as well as Advisory Committee Member to Hudson Valley Writers Center’s Slapering Hol Press.

Weaving together her work as a poet, passion for arts organizing, and faith-based perspective, Lily is currently pursuing ordination as an Episcopal priest. She begins a Masters of Divinity in Fall 2026 at the Berkeley Divinity School and Institute of Sacred Music at Yale University with a special emphasis on poetry and liturgics.