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Elizabeth Treadwell was born in Oakland, California, and earned a BA in Native American Studies at UC Berkeley and an MFA in Creative Writing at SF State.
Her books include Birds & Fancies, Wardolly, Virginia or the mud-flap girl, and Posy: a charm almanack & atlas. Her work has been anthologized in Bay Poetics, Gurlesque, War & Peace 3: the Future, and Out of Everywhere 2: Linguistically Innovative Poetry by Women in North America & the UK, among others. Treadwell has directed Small Press Traffic Literary Arts Center at the California College of the Arts in San Francisco and Lark Books & Writing Studio in Oakland. She’s taught at the Oakland School for the Arts and the College of Alameda. Additionally, she has edited and published several small magazines and presses: Stilts, Outlet Magazine & Double Lucy Books, and Gorgon Poetics; she also served as a contributing editor at Delirious Hem. |
Treadwell’s most recent collection, Penny Marvel & the book of the city of selfys (2018), has been praised by Stephanie Burt at the Yale Review and Tyrone Williams at Dispatches from the Poetry Wars.
She's currently completing a collection featuring poems including ‘Rose McGowan,’ ‘Misty Upham,’ ‘Ashley Judd,’ and ‘Jenny Lumet.' Materials from her current projects sometimes appear at vivian_rialto. 
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