Lily Osler

Lily Osler is a writer from Minnesota. Her humor has appeared in The New Yorker and McSweeney’s Internet Tendency, and her fiction is forthcoming in Passages North. Please don’t ask her what suburb she grew up in; she will not tell you.

Culture

An Elegy for My Boundary Waters

It’s cliché to call the Boundary Waters a refuge, but it certainly was mine when I was a kid.

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Lily Osler

November 20, 2025

Culture

A Chronic Hater Attempts to Enjoy the Minnesota Renaissance Festival

Armed with a crossbow and notepad, our reporter endures mud, bad burritos, worse comedy, white samurais, and elusive candle shops in pursuit of her elvish destiny.

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Lily Osler

August 27, 2025

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It Happened to Me: Goldy Gopher Came to My Gay Wedding

Goldy’s in-your-face affection knows no labels or limits, though his fee and time constraints are nonnegotiable.

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Lily Osler

July 1, 2025