Lilly Dancyger

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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]

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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

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

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

References

  1. ↑ Dancyger, Lilly (September 17, 2024). "Learning to Connect With Friends — Without Alcohol". The New York Times . Retrieved February 5, 2025.
  2. ↑ Dancyger, Lilly (August 4, 2024). "We Need to Talk About Our Ex-Best Friends". elle.com. Elle. Retrieved February 5, 2025.
  3. ↑ Dancyger, Lilly (May 2, 2024). "On Murder Memoirs". slate.com. Slate. Retrieved February 5, 2025.
  4. ↑ Dancyger, Lilly (January 30, 2024). "Looking at an Eclipse: A Braided Essay About Braided Essays". brevity.wordpress.com. Brevity Blog. Retrieved February 5, 2025.
  5. ↑ "The Word Cave". substack.com. Substack. Retrieved February 5, 2025.
  6. ↑ Aronoff, Amy (September 19, 2023). "Introducing 2023 NYSCA/NYFA Artist Fellows, Finalists, and Panelists". nyfa.org. New York Foundation for the Arts. Retrieved February 5, 2025.
  7. ↑ "Writers to watch: 10 women on the rise". bookpage.com. BookPage. March 1, 2021. Retrieved February 5, 2025.
  8. ↑ "The SFWP Awards Judged by Deesha Philyaw". sfwp.com. Santa Fe Writers Project. Retrieved February 6, 2025.
  9. ↑ Dancyger, Lilly (April 26, 2021). "Coming Home to Somewhere Unfamiliar". Guernica . Retrieved February 5, 2025.
  10. ↑ Lillibridge, Lara (October 8, 2023). "INTERVIEW: Lilly Dancyger, Writer, Editor, Teacher". Hippocampus Magazine. Retrieved February 6, 2025.
  11. ↑ "Lilly Dancyger". rollingstone.com. Rolling Stone. Retrieved February 6, 2025.
  12. ↑ "Lilly Dancyger". glamour.com. Glamour Magazine. Retrieved February 6, 2025.
  13. ↑ Dancyger, Lilly (October 15, 2017). "The New Alternative to 'Female Viagra' Is Zapping the Brain". The Cut. Retrieved February 6, 2025.
  14. ↑ VanDenburgh, Barbara (2021-04-26). "Nonfiction runs the gamut, plus Lahiri's 'Whereabouts'". USA Today. p. 14. Retrieved 2025-04-24.
  15. ↑ Iglesias, Gabino (May 5, 2021). "A Daughter Rediscovers Her Deceased Father's Life In 'Negative Space'". NPR . Retrieved February 5, 2025.
  16. ↑ Foster, Claire Rudy (2021-06-02). "Both of These Things Are True: Negative Space by Lilly Dancyger". The Rumpus. Retrieved 2025-04-24.
  17. ↑ Levin, Ann (May 5, 2021). "Book Review: Memoirist Lilly Dancyger's penetrating essays explore the power of female friendships". AP . Retrieved February 5, 2025.
  18. ↑ Shipley, Julia (2024-12-21). "Best Philly nonfiction books to gift this year". The Philadelphia Inquirer. pp. B8. Retrieved 2025-04-24.
  19. ↑ "Faculty". randolphcollege.edu. Randolph College. Retrieved February 5, 2025.
  20. ↑ "School of the Arts Directory". arts.columbia.edu. Columbia University. Retrieved February 5, 2025.
  21. ↑ "First Love by Lilly Dancyger: 9780593447574 | PenguinRandomHouse.com: Books". PenguinRandomhouse.com. Retrieved 2025-04-24.
  22. ↑ "Negative Space | Lilly Dancyger". Santa Fe Writers Project. Retrieved 2025-04-24.
  23. ↑ Dancyger, Lilly (2019-02-05). Burn It Down. Basic Books. ISBN   978-1-58005-894-0.
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