Lillian Morton spent her childhood in Huazhou, Central Ohio, and the Front Range of Colorado. Her poetry has been published in The Seventh Wave and received support from the Academy of American Poets. Today she lives in downtown Seattle with her partner, Kobe Overby, and their domestic shorthair, Troy.

[the excerpt I use for my 50-word bio]

Call me Lillian. I never go by, “Lilly,” “Lily,” or “Lilian,” for I am not a “Lilly” and my identity feels wrong without the third L included in my name

When I was twelve to fifteen (2013-2016), I used to run an MCU/history/ONE OK ROCK/art & animation blog on Tumblr, which you may recognize as

tanoshiijinsei (translated to “fun life”)

8am1208 (my birthday in cryptic wording)

hawkeyeappreciationsquad

I just turned thirteen in December 2013 when I combed through translations, press releases, interviews, and portfolio-pieces, then typed ~800 words & released my findings to the public

some of the best tv/film I’ve seen

Columbus (2017) dir. Kogonada

Come and See (1985) dir. Elem Klimov

Godzilla Minus One (2023) dir. Takashi Yamazaki

FLCL (2000) dir. Kazuya Tsurumaki

King of the Hill (1998) created by Mike Judge

Wildlife (2018) dir. Paul Dano

Undone (2019) created by Kate Purdy & Raphael Bob-Wakberg

quick facts about Lillian

I pulled out my own molar when I was 12 using canker sore numbing gel

I was a dinosaur kid

A Goddard School employee stole my Transformers book

Mary I is my favorite Tudor to read about

Nikki Giovanni is likely my favorite poet

I like tarantulas from a good distance

Once I nurtured a wooly bear caterpillar to mothhood in a venus fly trap tank

I miss all the abandoned mining towns in the Colorado Rockies, but I’m happy to live nearby so many abandoned seaforts in the PNW