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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