I love to bring people together, flexing my creative muscles as a curator and all-around literary hype woman.

I’ve worked for over a decade in the arts and culture nonprofit world in New York City, including at the Catapult Book Group, the Asian American Writers’ Workshop, PEN America, the Guggenheim Museum, and more.

Currently, I’m a co-Chair of the International Literature Committee at the Brooklyn Book Festival, a curator with the PEN World Voices Festival, a Co-Director of the Singapore Literature Festival, and events manager at the Catapult Book Group. I’m also a member of the Starlings Collective, a group of BIPOC adoptee writers dedicated to uplifting adoptee voices.

I received my MFA in Fiction from the Institute of American Indian Arts (IAIA), and am revising a manuscript of linked stories. I’m represented by Annie Hwang at Ayesha Pande Literary.

If you have freelance curation projects you’d like to discuss , get in touch at lilyphilpott [at] gmail [dot] com, or via Instagram @lilyphilpott. 🫶🏽