Lillian Mottern is a writer from the Eastside of Los Angeles.

Now based in New York City, she is the co-editor of the print-only literary journal Perennial and curates several literary readings series in downtown Manhattan.

As a playwright, her work has been performed in Los Angeles, New York, and Paris. She is currently writing a television pilot about three young women in East Hollywood who run a low-level crime ring. A cross between The Bling Ring, Mulholland Drive, and Girls, the script is inspired by her childhood growing up on the Eastside during its grittier, artsier heyday.

Her short stories and essays have been published or are forthcoming in The Big One, Waif, Dream Boy Book Club, Currant Jam, Spectra, and Notch, among others.

She has her MFA from Columbia University.