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Episode Synopsis
LILLY DANCYGER is the author of First Love: Essays on Friendship (2024), which Leslie Jamison called "fiercely felt and finely etched;" and the memoir Negative Space (2021), which was selected by Carmen Maria Machado as a winner of the Santa Fe Writers Project Literary Awards; and the editor of Burn It Down (2019), a critically acclaimed anthology of essays on women's anger. Dancyger's writing has been published by New York Magazine, The New York Times, The Atlantic, The Washington Post, Glamour, Cosmopolitan, Playboy, Rolling Stone, and more. She writes the Substack newsletter The Word Cave.A 2023 NYSCA/NYFA Artist Fellow in nonfiction from The New York Foundation for the Arts, Dancyger lives in New York City and teaches creative nonfiction at Columbia University School of the Arts and Randolph College. She has taught creative writing workshops for Tin House, Corporeal Writing, Catapult, Barrelhouse, and more; and she is a nonfiction editor at Barrelhouse Books.
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