Writers are sexy figures. Until recently, we tended to imagine them as drunk and glamorous, Hemingway at the bar in Cuba or Frank O’Hara partying with artists ...

Lily Meyer
Lily Meyer is a writer and translator from Washington, DC. She’s a regular reviewer for NPR Books, and her work has appeared in The Atlantic, the New Yorker, Tin House, the Sewanee Review, and more. She is a two-time fiction grant recipient from the DC Commission on the Arts and Humanities.