San Francisco-based Performance Poet Daphne Gottlieb stitches together the ivory tower and the gutter just using her tongue. She is the author of Final Girl (Soft Skull Press, 2003), Why Things Burn (Soft Skull Press, 2001) and Pelt (Odd Girls Press, 1999). Final Girl is a finalist for the 16th Annual Lambda Literary Awards and the 2004 Publishing Triangle Awards and was named one of The Village Voice's Favorite Books of 2003. Final Girl is also excerpted in Year's Best Fantasy and Horror, edited by Ellen Datlow, 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.

Daphne Gottlieb edited poetry for Lodestar Quarterly issues 1 through 16.

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