Lillian Giles is a Black Queer writer and educator living in Detroit with roots in Oakland. She holds an MFA in Creative Writing from San Francisco State University where she was the hood recipient for the college of liberal arts and a keynote commencement speaker. Lillian has recently finished a novel that is based on her great grandmother’s life as a midwife and defender of the 1940s Black Queer community. It is fiction but all of those stated parts are true. Her work has been published in The Rumpus, The Shenandoah, and in The Washington Square Review. She’s been awarded the Joe Brainard writing fellowship in fiction, was a finalist for the Audre Lorde award in poetry, and won the Nomadic Press Literary Award for Fiction. You can reach or follow her on instagram at Lillian Giles (@bsidereading) • Instagram photos and videos.
