Born in Oakland, California, in 1967, Elizabeth Treadwell's collections of poetry include Birds & Fancies (2007) and Posy: a charm almanack & atlas (2015).
Her most recent, Penny Marvel & the book of the city of selfys (2018), has been hailed by Stephanie Burt at the Yale Review and Tyrone Williams at Dispatches from the Poetry Wars.
A selection from her earlier books is included in Out of Everywhere 2: Linguistically Innovative Poetry by Women in North America & the UK (2015).
A former director of Small Press Traffic Literary Arts Center in San Francisco and Lark Books & Writing Studio in Oakland, Treadwell now teaches at the College of Alameda and the Oakland School for the Arts.
Treadwell is currently completing a novel and a collection of essays. Her new poetry collection, Starlit, is forthcoming from Chax Press, and materials of its creation can be seen at Vivian Rialto.
Her most recent, Penny Marvel & the book of the city of selfys (2018), has been hailed by Stephanie Burt at the Yale Review and Tyrone Williams at Dispatches from the Poetry Wars.
A selection from her earlier books is included in Out of Everywhere 2: Linguistically Innovative Poetry by Women in North America & the UK (2015).
A former director of Small Press Traffic Literary Arts Center in San Francisco and Lark Books & Writing Studio in Oakland, Treadwell now teaches at the College of Alameda and the Oakland School for the Arts.
Treadwell is currently completing a novel and a collection of essays. Her new poetry collection, Starlit, is forthcoming from Chax Press, and materials of its creation can be seen at Vivian Rialto.
Books
Starlit (Chax, forthcoming)
Penny Marvel & the book of the city of selfys (Dusie, 2018)
Posy: a charm almanack & atlas (Lark, 2015)
Virginia or the mud-flap girl (Dusie, 2012)
wardolly (Chax, 2008)
Birds & Fancies (Shearsman, 2007)
Cornstarch Figurine (Dusie, 2006)
LILYFOIL + 3 (O Books, 2004)
Chantry (Chax, 2004)
Populace (Avec, 1999) [prose poems]
Eleanor Ramsey: the Queen of Cups (SFSU, 1997) [novel]
Chapbooks
Holocene (SFSU Poetry Center/a+bend press, 2016)
Ancient Celebrity Tune-rot (Least Weasel, 2011)
LILYFOIL (or Boy & Girl Tramps of America) (Duration, 2002)
The Milk Bees (Lucille, 2000)
Eve Doe: prior to landscape (a+bend, 1999)
The Erratix & Other Stories (Texture, 1998)
Eve Doe (becoming an epic poem) (Double Lucy, 1997)
Ephemera & Songs
Vivian Rialto (instagram, 2017-2019)
The fairly cwen (tumblr, 2015)
Novitiate: a penny posy (Dusie kollektiv, 2014)
Penny Marvel & the book of the city of selfys (tumblr, 2013-2015)
Charm Atlas One (Dusie kollektiv, 2010)
The Graces (Dusie wee, 2006)
"JoLynn," Elizabeth Treadwell for Song Poems, curated by Steven Hull, arranged & performed by Molly Symns, 2001.
"Yolanda," Paul Jackson & Elizabeth Treadwell for The Uptones, 1998.
Starlit (Chax, forthcoming)
Penny Marvel & the book of the city of selfys (Dusie, 2018)
Posy: a charm almanack & atlas (Lark, 2015)
Virginia or the mud-flap girl (Dusie, 2012)
wardolly (Chax, 2008)
Birds & Fancies (Shearsman, 2007)
Cornstarch Figurine (Dusie, 2006)
LILYFOIL + 3 (O Books, 2004)
Chantry (Chax, 2004)
Populace (Avec, 1999) [prose poems]
Eleanor Ramsey: the Queen of Cups (SFSU, 1997) [novel]
Chapbooks
Holocene (SFSU Poetry Center/a+bend press, 2016)
Ancient Celebrity Tune-rot (Least Weasel, 2011)
LILYFOIL (or Boy & Girl Tramps of America) (Duration, 2002)
The Milk Bees (Lucille, 2000)
Eve Doe: prior to landscape (a+bend, 1999)
The Erratix & Other Stories (Texture, 1998)
Eve Doe (becoming an epic poem) (Double Lucy, 1997)
Ephemera & Songs
Vivian Rialto (instagram, 2017-2019)
The fairly cwen (tumblr, 2015)
Novitiate: a penny posy (Dusie kollektiv, 2014)
Penny Marvel & the book of the city of selfys (tumblr, 2013-2015)
Charm Atlas One (Dusie kollektiv, 2010)
The Graces (Dusie wee, 2006)
"JoLynn," Elizabeth Treadwell for Song Poems, curated by Steven Hull, arranged & performed by Molly Symns, 2001.
"Yolanda," Paul Jackson & Elizabeth Treadwell for The Uptones, 1998.