Lili Stern

Lili Stern was the Literary Awards Coordinator at PEN America. They hail from New York City and have lived in London, England where they earned a BA in English and Classical Studies from King’s College London. Their senior thesis focused on the literary reception of the queer woman’s poetic voice in antiquity and the French modern imagination. Before joining PEN, they assisted the women’s board at DNA Model Management.


Articles by Lili Stern

Writing as Craft
Wednesday January 10

Hisham Matar | The PEN Ten Interview

I am fascinated by how time is both linear and circular, by how any given moment often contains within it remnants of the past and our aspirations for the future.

Writing as Craft
Thursday October 5

Mona Awad | The PEN Ten Interview

Really the novel explores how we often focus on the surface in order to avoid pain, or any kind of difficult, deep internal work.