About Me

Lily Burana is the author of the rodeo novel, "TRY" (St. Martins Press), and the memoir, "Strip City: A Stripper's Farewell Journey Across America" (Miramax Books). "Strip City" was named one of the Best Books of the Year (2001) by Entertainment Weekly, Salon, Newsday, and The Rocky Mountain News.

Her features and criticism has appeared in The Washington Post, The New York Times, GQ, Slate, Salon, Details, SPIN, Entertainment Weekly, The New York Observer, Village Voice, New York Magazine, Glamour, and many international publications. Her essays have been published in the anthologies "Sex and Sensibility," "The Salon Readers Guide to Contemporary Authors," and "The May Queen."

She has lectured at New York's Lincoln Center Library for the Performing Arts, Columbia University, San Francisco Art Institute, San Francisco State University, and many gender politics forums, including OutWrite.

A proud Army wife, she and her husband, a Lieutenant Colonel, are currently toeing the Long Gray Line at the United States Military Academy at West Point. Rock on, USMA.