LILY SCHECKNER

Lily Scheckner is a bilingual senior at Montgomery Blair High School in Silver Spring, Maryland. Her writing--which is often feminist, gothic or both--has been recognized by The Pulitzer Center and the Scholastic Art & Writing Awards, among others. Her work has appeared in The Harvard Advocate, The Penn Review, One Teen Story, and The National Poetry Quarterly. Recently, she was a mentee in Fiction for the Adroit Journal Summer Mentorship Program. Outside of writing, Lily is an advocate for social justice, interning in local government and on congressional campaigns, and a filmmaker whose short videos and documentaries have been commended by C-SPAN, commissioned by Congressman Jamie Raskin, and screened in Times Square. In her free time, Lily enjoys matcha lattes, oxford commas, and listening to Sufjan Stevens.