Lily Philpott is an Indigenous transracial adoptee born in Santiago, Chile and raised in New England. She has worked for close to a decade in the arts and culture nonprofit sector in New York City at PEN America, the Guggenheim Museum, and the Asian American Writers’ Workshop. She is a member of the Starlings Collective, a group supporting BIPOC adoptee writers; the International Literature Committee at the Brooklyn Book Festival; and the curatorial committee of the 2024 PEN America World Voices Festival. She also volunteers as the Director of Programs at the nonprofit organization Singapore Unbound. She is currently completing her MFA in Fiction at the Institute of American Indian Arts (IAIA). She lives in Brooklyn and wants to know what you’re reading.
