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Elizabeth Treadwell

Elizabeth Treadwell was born in Oakland, California, on the cusp of the so-called
summer of love, and grew mainly up in the wilds of Berkeley, a proud member of
the Irish, English, and Cherokee diasporas. She has a degree in Native American Studies
from UC Berkeley and one in Creative Writing from San Francisco State.

Treadwell’s the author of a novel, a collection of stories and prose poems, and five
collections of poetry, most recently Birds & Fancies (2007) and Wardolly (2008).
Her poetry has appeared in a number of anthologies including War & Peace 3: the Future
(O Books, 2007), Efforts & Affections: Women Poets on Mentorship (Iowa, 2008),
and Gurlesque (Saturnalia, 2010), and was discussed as part of “The New Thing:
the object lessons of recent American poetry” in the Boston Review.

Treadwell has edited the literary magazines Stilts, Outlet, and Traffic as well as Double Lucy
Books; curated at Delirious Hem; taught at UC Extension and Berkeley City College; and
served as director of Small Press Traffic Literary Arts Center at the California College of
the Arts
, where she now teaches. She also teaches privately, workshops for children as well
as adults, and is launching a new publishing project, Preposition Press, early in 2012.

She lives with her family in Oakland.

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