Lily Duffy is a writer, editor, and therapist from the Washington, D.C. area. They're the author of the full-length poetry collection TACT (Vegetarian Alcoholic, 2021) as well as the chapbooks Wet Water Hill (Garden-Door Press, 2021) and Sour Candy (Really Serious Literature, 2018). Lily's poems have appeared in Anomaly, APARTMENT Poetry, The Journal Petra, Denver Quarterly, and Yalobusha Review, among other journals. They hold an MFA in Poetry from the University of Colorado Boulder and an MSW from Metropolitan State University of Denver.

 

With Ray Levy, Lily co-edits the literary magazine DREGINALD, which has published the work of writers and multimedia artists from all over the world since 2013.

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Lily currently resides on the unceded lands of the Kickapoo, Piankeshaw, Wea, Myaamia, and Mascouten nations, otherwise known as Terre Haute, Indiana. Prior to moving to the midwest, they spent 13 years living on the front range of Colorado (unceded land of the Ute, Arapaho, and Cheyenne tribes), where they continue to operate a private telehealth psychotherapy practice supporting high masking and late-identified neurodivergent adults.

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Lily's long poem and chapbook Wet Water Hill is currently being adapted into a film by screenwriters Scarlett Woodcook and Ballard Reynolds of Misguided Heart Productions, an independent film production company based in Boone, North Carolina. You can follow along with the filmmaking process for Wet Water Hill on the Misguided Heart Productions Instagram page.