← Back to Authors

Biography

Amy Lee Lillard is the author of Exile in Guyville, winner of the 2022 BOA Editions Short Fiction Prize; The Past is a Grotesque Animal, forthcoming from University of Iowa Press; and Dig Me Out, from Atelier26 Books. Her fiction and nonfiction appears in Vox, LitHub, Barrelhouse, Foglifter, Epiphany, Off Assignment, Autostraddle, and more. She received the Iowa Author Award in 2023, and was named one of Epiphany’s Breakout 8 Writers in 2018. She is also the co-creator and co-host of “Broads and Books,” the funny and feminist book podcast.

Books by Amy Lee Lillard

Authors · Featured

Naomi Shihab Nye

Naomi Shihab Nye is the author and/or editor of more than thirty volumes including six collections of poetry from BOA Editions: Sidekick (2026), Red…

Read More
Book Bundles · Featured

Fall Book Bundle

Welcome Fall Book Bundlers! With this purchase you will receive a box with all titles from Boa's current fall season along with a few…

Read More
Book Subscriptions · Featured

Boa Book Lovers Subscription

Subscribe and save on all forthcoming Boa titles within the calendar year! At the start of each season (every 6 months), subscribers will receive…

Read More
Fiction · Featured

The Tao of Humiliation

Kirkus Reviews Best Book of 2014 Excerpt from The Tao of Humiliation“The Last Satyr” The satyr apologized to whatever powers cast him into the human…

Read More
New Release · Featured

I Am Trying to Love the Whole World

In her lyrical fifth collection, I Am Trying to Love the Whole World, Jenny Browne fearlessly holds grief without sentimentality and beauty without denial. For nearly…

Read More
Nonfiction · Featured

The Winged Seed: A Remembrance

With a new Foreword by the author and never-before-seen photographs of the author's family and childhood This reissuing of acclaimed poet Li-Young Lee's American…

Read More
Poetry · Featured

Appetite: Food as Metaphor

In poems from such women as Jane Kenyon, Lucille Clifton, Anne Sexton, and Sylvia Plath, food emerges as a reoccurring and central metaphor in…

Read More
Rare and Signed · Featured

Life Watch

Signed copies available in limited supply Willis Barnstone’s Life Watch is an ambitious sequence of poems that begins in childhood and moves through Barnstone’s…

Read More
Translations · Featured

Dark Things

Dark Things is a collection of poems by the leading living Serbian poet of our time - Novica Tadić. The 48 poems in this manuscript…

Read More