Daphne Gottlieb

Daphne Gottlieb — a San Francisco-based Performance Poet—stitches together the ivory tower and the gutter with her tongue. She is the author of Final Girl, Why Things Burn, and Pelt. Final Girl was named one of The Village Voice‘s Favorite Books of 2003 and received rave reviews from Publisher’s Weekly, The San Francisco Chronicle, and The Village Voice. Why Things Burn was the winner of a 2001 Firecracker Alternative Book Award (Special Recognition—Spoken Word) and was also a finalist for the Lambda Literary Award for 2001. Gottlieb is the poetry editor of the online queer literary magazine Lodestar Quarterly, as well as Other Magazine. She is currently at work editing an anthology about adultery entitled, Homewrecker: An Atlas of Illicit Loves, and is finishing her fourth book of poetry, Kissing Dead Girls. She received her MFA from Mills College.