Lily Burana is an American writer whose publications include the memoir I Love a Man in Uniform (Weinstein Books, 2009), the novel Try (St. Martin's Press, 2006) and Strip City: A Stripper's Farewell Journey Across America (Miramax Books, 2001).
As a journalist, she frequently writes about culture, gender, and women's issues, with a recent emphasis on the domestic side of military affairs. She has written for the Washington Post, GQ, The New York Times, The Los Angeles Times, Self, Glamour, Entertainment Weekly, Details, the Village Voice, and the New York Observer. She was a contributing editor at New York Magazine and SPIN. As a public speaker, she has appeared at The United States Military Academy, Columbia University, San Francisco State University, and the San Francisco Art Institute.
Lily Burana started writing for punk magazines while still a teenager. Her first book, Strip City: A Stripper's Farewell Journey Across America was a chronicle of her work as a stripper during her late teens and early twenties.[1] Burana married an Army officer in 2002. In 2008, she began "Operation Bombshell," a burlesque class for wives of deployed soldiers.[2] She lives in New York.