Author: Daphne Gottlieb
Profile: Daphne Gottlieb is a performance poet, instructor, writer and scholar based in San Francisco. She is born in New York and she received her B.F.A. degree at Bard College and M.F.A. degree from Mills College. She resides in San Francisco. She is faculty member of New College of California and Co-organizer of Girls spoken word festival. She appears across the United States at a number of festivals and the Slam America bus tour. She has been a former poetry editor of Other magazine and former poet editor of Lodestar Quarterly online.
Her works have been praised as ‘deliriously gutsy’, ‘fierce’, ‘scorching’ and ‘unapologietic’ by critics. She has authored 1 nonfiction book, 2 anthologies, 5 books of poetry, 1 book of short stories and 1 graphic novel. A number of journals have published Daphne Gottlieb including mcsweeney’s.net, Utne Reader, nerve.com, Instant City, Tikkun and Exquisite Corpse. She is the cover girl on San Francisco Noir as well (Akashic Books, 2005) besides which a number of anthologies have featured her.
Writing style: Daphne Gottlieb has written about childhood abuse, homophobic experiences of a lesbian but still is able to find humor in the situation, things people suppress while functioning in a society including death deformity, mental illness, violence against women, gender stereotypes, etc.
Published Texts:
Books
Author
2015 – Pretty Much Dead
2012 – 15 Ways to Stay Alive
2008 - Kissing Dead Girls
2003 – Final Girl
2001 – Why Things Burn
1999 – Pelt
Editor
2012 – Dear Dawn: Aileen Wuornos in her Own Words
2005 – Homewrecker: An Adultery Reader
2008 – Fucking Daphne: Mostly True Stories and Fictions
Bibliography
1999 – Pelt
2001 – Why Things Burn
2003 – Final Girl
2005 – Homewrecker: An Adultery Anthology
2006 – Jokes and the Unconscious: A Graphic Novel
2008 – Kissing Dead Girls
2008 – Fucking Daphne: Mostly True Stories and Fictions
2011 – 15 Ways to Stay Alive
Awards and Acknowledgements:
2003 – Audre Lorde Award in Poetry (Final Girl)
2003 – Final Girl was named The Village Voice’s Favourite Books and received rave reviews from The Village Voice, the San Francisco Chronicle and Publishers Weekly
Nominated for a Bram Stoker Award (Final Girl)
Winner of a 2001 Firecracker Alternative Book Award (Why Things Burn)
2001 - Firecracker Alternative Book Award (Special Recognition-Spoken Word) (Why Things Burn)
2001 – Finalist for the Lambda Literary Award (Why Things Burn)
2008 – Nominee for the Lambda Literary Award (Fucking Daphne: Mostly True Stories and Fictions)
2008 – Nominee for the Lambda Literary Award (Kissing Dead Girls)
Acker Award for Excellence in the Avant-Garde
Audre Lorde Award for Poetry