Elizabeth Treadwell (born 1967) is an American poet. Her works include LILYFOIL + 3 (O Books, 2004), Chantry (Chax Press, 2004), Birds & Fancies (Shearsman Books, 2007), Wardolly (Chax Press, 2008), Virginia or the mud-flap girl (Dusie, 2012), and Posy: a charm almanack & atlas (Lark, 2015).

Life

Born in

Oakland, California Oakland is the largest city and the county seat of Alameda County, California, United States. A major West Coast of the United States, West Coast port, Oakland is the largest city in the East Bay region of the San Francisco Bay Area, the third ...

, Treadwell is a graduate of the Berkeley Unified School District, the

University of California, Berkeley The University of California, Berkeley (UC Berkeley, Berkeley, Cal, or California) is a public land-grant research university in Berkeley, California. Established in 1868 as the University of California, it is the state's first land-grant u ...

(B.A. in Native American Studies, 1991), and

San Francisco State University San Francisco State University (commonly referred to as San Francisco State, SF State and SFSU) is a public research university in San Francisco. As part of the 23-campus California State University system, the university offers 118 different ...

(MFA in Creative Writing, 1997). From 2000 to 2007, she was director of Small Press Traffic Literary Arts Center at the

California College of the Arts California College of the Arts (CCA) is a private art school in San Francisco, California. It was founded in Berkeley, California in 1907 and moved to a historic estate in Oakland, California in 1922. In 1996 it opened a second campus in Sa ...

in San Francisco. She has also taught at the Oakland School for the Arts and curated Lark Readings at Studio Grand in Oakland.

Poetic style

Writing in Stride magazine, critic Nathan Thompson called hers "a difficult but deeply rewarding poetry. It has a precision and a tenderness all of its own." In Boog City, critic Maureen Thorson called Treadwell's "a feminine poetry, marvelous, tough, and unrelenting." Treadwell's work has also been reviewed i
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The Believer (magazine) ''The Believer'' is an American bimonthly magazine of interviews, essays, and reviews, founded by the writers Heidi Julavits, Vendela Vida, and Ed Park in 2003. The magazine is a five-time finalist for the National Magazine Award. Between 2003 a ...

, and elsewhere. Her work is discussed i
The Boston Review May/June 2009
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Selected works

*Starlit, Chax Press forthcoming *Penny Marvel & the book of the city of selfys, Dusie Books, 2018 *Posy: a charm almanack & atlas, Lark Books & Writing Studio, 2015 *Virginia or the mud-flap girl, Dusie Books, 2012 *Wardolly, Chax Press, 2008 *Birds & Fancies, Shearsman Books, 2007 *The Graces (chapbook), Dusie wee, 2006 *Cornstarch Figurine, Dusie Books, 2006 *LILYFOIL + 3, O Books, 2004 *Chantry, Chax Press, 2004 *LILYFOIL (or Boy & Girl Tramps of America) (chapbook), Duration Press, 2002 *The Milk Bees (chapbook), Lucille Series, 2000 *Eve Doe: Prior to Landscape (chapbook), a+bend press, 1999 *Populace, Avec Books, 1999 *The Erratix & Other Stories (chapbook), Texture Press, 1998 *Eve Doe (becoming an epic poem) (chapbook), Double Lucy Books, 1997 *Eleanor Ramsey: The Queen of Cups, Fourteen Hills Press, 1997

References

External links

Official website
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