Thursday, February 05, 2004

ELIZABETH TREADWELL
reading/workshop
Wednesday, February 11
7 pm
Mills Hall 322
free and open to the public

Elizabeth Treadwell currently lives in Oakland, California, where she was born in 1967. She is of Cherokee and Irish persuasion on her mother’s side. She is the author of a collection of prose poems, Populace (Avec, 1999), and a novel, Eleanor Ramsey: the Queen of Cups (SFSU, 1997); as well as several chapbooks including two short volumes of her Eve Doe project. Her long poem, LILYFOIL (or Boy & Girl Tramps of America), is available free as an ebook at durationpress.com. A new collection of her poetry, Chantry, will be published by Chax Press. She is currently the director of Small Press Traffic. In 2002 she organized Indigenous Writing Now, a conference at SPT celebrating and discussing current practices in Native American literature(s), and patterns in writing by Native Americans, with Native American poets, writers and scholars representing nine Native nations: Laguna Pueblo, Navajo, Cherokee, Nez Perce, Suquamish, Mohawk, Dakota, Arapaho, and Chippewa.

forthcoming talks/readings/discussions/workshops by oakland associated writers...
18-Feb catalina cariaga
25-Feb truong tran
24-Mar chris chen
31-Mar tisa bryant
7-Apr eileen tabios and michelle batista
14-Apr rodrigo toscano
21-Apr renee gladman

Series sponsored in part with funds from the Irvine Foundation at Mills College and from 'A 'A Arts with grants it has received from the National Endowment for the Arts and Poets & Writers, Inc, through a grant it has received from the James Irvine Foundation.