![]() ![]() I didn’t think there was a place in publishing for a college drop-out who wrote books with happy endings. For a long time, I only shared my writing with friends. The first novel I finished was an extra credit assignment for a high school English class. ![]() As a theater kid, I often wrote long complicated backstories for the characters I played onstage, a sort of hybrid between character work and fan fiction. In the first grade, I won a county writing award for a poem I wrote about olives. I’ve been writing for as long as I can remember. ![]() It is my honor, on behalf of The Brown Bookshelf, on this 26th Day of February, to present: I’m sure we all know at least one girl who fits in those categories! She enjoys writing about girls who are snarky, intelligent, and… okay, sometimes monsters. When she couldn’t find them, she began creating them! A former librarian, Lily loves Shakespeare, podcasts, and fairytales. The real Lily Anderson wrecks, too, but in a much more awesome way! She grew up in the Bay Area of California, hungry for books with characters who looked like her. What the what? I immediately clicked on it and found out, 40 thumping heart pounds later, that Lily Anderson is also the name of a character on Grey’s Anatomy. “As a woman of Afro-Puerto Rican descent, representing a diverse world isn’t a trend for me-it’s my greatest joy.” Lily AndersonĪs I began my research (scouring the internet) in search of information about Lily, one of the first articles to pop up said she was in a car accident. ![]()
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