Lily Burana

Lily Burana is a punk rock girl turned writer and editor. Since starting her writing life as a columnist and editor at punk and alternative 'zines, she has gone on to write for The Washington Post, GQ, The New York Times, Self, Glamour, Entertainment Weekly, Details, The Village Voice, The New York Observer, and her reviews and cultural criticism have been picked up by magazines and newspapers around the world. She has been a Contributing Editor at SPIN and New York magazines. Her essays have been included in numerous anthologies, including Sex and Sensibility (Simon and Schuster, 2005) and The May Queen (Tarcher, 2006). Along with Linnea Due and Roxxie, she co-edited the groundbreaking anthology Dagger: On Butch Women (Cleis Press, 1994). Her first non-fiction book, Strip City: A Stripper's Farewell Journey Across America (Miramax Books, 2001) made Best of the Year lists in Entertainment Weekly, Salon, New York Newsday, and Rocky Mountain News, and was selected as a Barnes and Noble Discover New Writers title. TRY (St. Martins Press, 2006) is her debut novel, a Western romance. She is the recipient of a writer's residency at Ucross Foundation in Wyoming, where she wrote much of her novel. As a speaker, she has given presentations at the Lincoln Center Library for the Performing Arts, San Francisco Art Institute, The Tennessee Williams Literary Festival, OutWrite, and she is a repeat presenter at the Columbia School of Journalism. She lives in New York with her family.