Lillian Giles
Lillian Giles is a Black Queer writer and educator living in Oakland, California. She holds an MFA in creative writing from San Francisco State University. Lillian is finishing a novel that is based on her great grandmother’s life as a midwife and defender of the 1940s Black Queer community. It’s fiction but those stated parts are true. Her lyrical essay, “Dear Daughters” has been published in The Rumpus. She’s been awarded the Joe Brainard Writing Fellowship in fiction, won the Nomadic Press Award in fiction, and was a finalist for the Audre Lorde Award in poetry.
Reading List
Pearl Becoming from Leaning on Francis
James had been going to Paul’s juke joint since right after he turned fourteen, and it felt like a sort of home on account of it being one of the places he’d been around the longest. He had always been welcomed there but he wondered if that would change after tonight. He didn’t know what […]