Lucy Schiller

I’m a writer and assistant professor of nonfiction at Texas Tech.

My writing has appeared in the Columbia Journalism Review, The Paris Review Daily, The Cleveland Review of Books, The Iowa Review, Off Assignment, West Branch, DIAGRAM, Speculative Nonfiction, The New Yorker, Popula, Essay Daily, Goodnight, Sweet Prince, Lit Hub, The Rumpus, and elsewhere. My favorite writers include Joseph Mitchell, Lucy Sante, James Agee, Wendy S. Walters, Nicholson Baker, Barbara Ehrenreich, and other total luminaries. I’m originally from San Diego but spent lots of time in the Midwest — Illinois and Iowa. I graduated with an MFA from the Nonfiction Writing Program at the University of Iowa in 2018, where I was also an Iowa Arts Fellow, and I was the Olive B. O’Connor fellow in nonfiction at Colgate University from 2020-2021.

To my wonderful previous students: if you need to contact me with updates, rec letter requests, etc., please send me an email (lucyhschiller@gmail.com). I would love to hear from you.