ÔM by Lily Thu Fierro
2:00 A.M. Tonight’s crowd is mostly gone. Good tips. No grabs. I did alright.
Originally trained as a cognitive scientist, Lily Thu Fierro spends her days finding meaning in data and her nights making comics or writing short fiction. She is interested in the tensions between individual perception and memory with external realities in our science and technology driven era. Her writing has appeared in LUMINA, diaCRITICS, and INK 19, and her research has been published in journals and conference proceedings related to artificial intelligence, biocomputing, and computational cognitive science. Her first comic, Vessel, which she jointly created with her husband, was published in January 2022.