Lillian Li

Lillian Li is a senior at Princeton University, majoring in English with a certificate in creative writing. She has studied with Chang-Rae Lee, Jeffrey Eugenides, Susan Choi, Lorrie Moore, and Edmund White, who is currently her senior advisor. She received the Francis LeMoyne Page Creative Writing Award, which honors distinctive achievement in creative writing, her junior year. Her junior summer, where she spent eight weeks in Beijing working at an expatriate magazine and researching for her creative thesis, was financed by the Peter B. Lewis fund. In addition to fiction writing, she is also interested in non-fiction and journalism. During her sophomore year, she was selected by John McPhee as one of the sixteen students in his well-known Creative Non-Fiction course (such alumni include David Remnick and Richard Stengel). She has also studied under Evan Thomas, who was the assistant managing editor of Newsweek. She received the Edwin F. Ferris Class of 1899 Grant her sophomore year, and was nominated for the Edwin F. Ferris Class of 1899 Prize her junior year for a non-fiction piece written about a falling-out between two roommates. She has worked as a columnist for Princeton Alumni Weekly and for The Faster Times, and she is currently a senior writer for The Daily Princetonian.