Lily Scheckner's Creative Portfolio

 

 

 

Lily Scheckner is a freshman at Yale College who served as the 2025 Youth Poet Laureate of Montgomery County, Maryland. She specializes in creative writing, particularly fiction and poetry, but also loves to experiment with filmmaking. Her writing has been recognized by the Pulitzer Center and the Scholastic Art & Writing Awards and published by The Penn Review and The Harvard Advocate. She was also recently nominated for a Pushcart Prize by One Teen Story, and received a Special Mention in the 2026 Anthology. Her short videos and documentaries have been commended by C-SPAN, commissioned by Congressman Jamie Raskin, and screened in Times Square. She was named one of GLAAD's 20 under 20 changemakers of 2025, and featured in Teen Vogue. As a proponent of social justice in her community and an aspiring Political Science-English major, Lily's work is often meant to be viewed through political, queer, and feminist lenses.