Daphne Gottlieb is the award-winning author of ten books including
her recent collection of short stories, Pretty Much Dead. Previous
works include Dear Dawn- Aileen Wuornos in her Own Words, a
collection of letters from Death Row by the "first female serial
killer" to her childhood best friend. She is also the author of
five books of poetry, editor of two anthologies, and, with artist
Diane DiMassa, the co-creator of the graphic novel Jokes and the
Unconscious. She has relentlessly toured coast to coast, headlining
solo tours as well as appearing with Hal Sirowitz, Lydia Lunch, and
Maggie Estep. She has appeared at SXSW, Bumbershoot, and LadyFest
Bay Area, and her poetry, fiction and essays have appeared in more
than 50 anthologies.
Daphne is the winner of the Acker Award for Excellence in the
Avant-Garde, the Audre Lorde Award for Poetry, the Firecracker
Alternative Book Award, and is a five-time finalist for the Lambda
Literary Award. She lives in San Francisco, where she is frequently
seen with her three-pound, toothless, humpback chihuahua, Doomsday
Honeymoon, nestled in her arms.
"Gottlieb has a wickedly smart sense of humor, edged with the pain human fallibility. . . . Clever, fun, and deep all at once."
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