Lilly Dancyger
Lilly Dancyger is an American author born in New York. She is the author of First Love: Essays on Friendship and Negative Space, and editor of the anthology Burn It Down: Women Writing About Anger. Her essays have been published by The New York Times,[1] Elle,[2] Slate,[3] and Brevity,[4] among other outlets. She writes the newsletter The Word Cave.[5]
Dancyger received an Artist Fellowship in Creative Nonfiction from the New York Foundation for the Arts,[6] and was named a "Writer to Watch" by BookPage.[7] Her memoir Negative Space was selected by Carmen Maria Machado as a winner of the Santa Fe Writers Project Literary Awards.[8]
Early life and education
[edit | edit source]Dancyger grew up in New York City and the San Francisco Bay Area. She dropped out of Bard High School Early College at the age of 14[9] and earned a GED. She later graduated from Eugene Lang College of Liberal Arts with a BA in Literary Studies and received an MA in Journalism from the Columbia University Graduate School of Journalism.
Career
[edit | edit source]Dancyger was the Memoir Editor at Narratively from 2014-2020,[10] during which time she also worked as a freelance journalist, writing for outlets such as Rolling Stone,[11] Glamour,[12] The Cut,[13] and others.
Her 2021 memoir Negative Space details her investigation into her father's life, who had an addiction to heroin and died prematurely, through the art he created.[14] Gabino Iglesias from NPR and Claire Rudy Foster from The Rumpus both praised the work's nonlinear narrative and exploration of grief.[15][16]
Ann Levin from Associated Press described her 2024 work First Love: Essays on Friendship as "vivid, thoughtful, and nuanced."[17] Julia Shipley from The Philadelphia Inquirer also gave the collection a positive review.[18]
She currently teaches creative nonfiction in the MFA programs at Randolph College[19] and Columbia University School of the Arts.[20]
Bibliography
[edit | edit source]- First Love: Essays on Friendship (2024) The Dial Press[21]
- Negative Space (2021) Santa Fe Writers Project[22]
- Burn It Down: Women Writing About Anger (editor) (2019) Seal Press[23]
References
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