Lily C. Buday is originally from northern Michigan, where she learned to write semi-obsessively about lakes and water. Her work has been published in Chautauqua, GASHER, Joyland Magazine, and Salt Hill Journal, and has been nominated for the Pushcart Prize. She is the recipient of a 2022 Individual Artist Fellowship from the Arkansas Arts Council and a 2022 Artists 360 Fellowship from the Mid-America Arts Alliance. She holds an MFA in creative writing from the University of Arkansas, where she was awarded the James E. & Ellen Wadley Roper Fellowship in Creative Writing and the Harrison/Whitehead Founders' Fellowship.

 

Lily lives in Fayetteville, Arkansas. She is currently working on a novel about family trauma, desire, and Lake Michigan.