Lillian Mottern is a writer from the Eastside of Los Angeles based in New York City.

Her plays have been performed and workshopped in New York, Los Angeles, and London. She was a semi-finalist for the Eugene O’Neill Theater’s 2025 National Playwrights Conference.

Her short stories and essays have been published in Currant Jam, Spectra, Notch Magazine, and Wigleaf. She co-edits a literary magazine called Verdict Mag. She writes a Substack called Jean Skirt.

Her interests include American aesthetics / myths, the internet, urban theory, pseudoscience, farce and clown, lesbian conspiracy theories, and the Dear America books from circa 2004.

MFA: Columbia University.