Elizabeth Treadwell
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Birds and Fancies
About the author
Elizabeth Treadwell was born in Oakland, California in 1967, of Cherokee, English, Irish, and unknown heritage; she lives there now with her family.
She is the author of a novel, Eleanor Ramsey: the Queen of Cups; a collection of stories and prose poems, Populace; and the poetry collections Cornstarch Figurine, Chantry, Lilyfoil + 3, Wardolly, and Birds & Fancies. Her chapbooks include The Milk Bees, The Erratix & Other Stories, and two volumes of her Eve Doe project.
Treadwell is a graduate of the Berkeley Unified School District, the University of California at Berkeley (BA in Native American Studies), and San Francisco State University (MFA in Creative Writing). In addition to the San Francisco Bay Area, she has spent significant time in Arizona, Oregon, Los Angeles (where she worked on the set of Reservoir Dogs, an experience recounted in her unpublished novella, The Twelve Fists of Joe), and England.
Treadwell has taught writing and literature at several Bay Area institutions, and from 1997-2002, she edited and published Outlet magazine and Double Lucy Books. Since 2000 she has served as the director of Small Press Traffic Literary Arts Center at the California College of the Arts in San Francisco. At SPT, her projects have included the conference Indigenous Writing Now as well as two talks series, New Experiments and Predecessors, and revivals of plays by Djuna Barnes, Margaret Cavendish, and Gertrude Stein. She is the founding editor of SPT's new journal, Traffic. Treadwell is currently working on a book-length poem titled Virginia or the mud-flap girl. For further information, please see Elizabeth Treadwell's website.