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, Treadwell is a graduate of the Berkeley Unified School District, the University of California, Berkeley (B.A. in Native American Studies, 1991), and San Francisco State University (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 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 in Rain Taxi, Jacket, The Believer (magazine), and elsewhere. Her work is discussed in The Boston Review May/June 2009 as part of "The New Thing: the object lessons of recent American poetry."

Selected works