Lily is from New York City and is fascinated by the connection between art, religion, and nature. During her master’s in Modern Languages at Oxford, she wrote her dissertation on the German Romantic conception of self, other, and the divine, particularly in the prose work of Hölderlin and Novalis. She received a B.A. in Comparative Literature and German Studies from Brown University in 2018, where she wrote her thesis on Virginia Woolf and Novalis, and worked as a freelance writer and novelist for the past few years. She enjoys gardening and is learning to play the banjo.
