Daphne Gottlieb is the author of 11 books, including poetry books Why Things Burn, Final Girl, Kissing Dead Girls, and 15 Ways to Stay Alive. Her work has been published in more than 50 anthologies, literary journals, and periodicals, including McSweeney's, Tikkun, and Utne Reader. She is the winner of an Acker Award for Excellence in the Avant-Garde, the Publishing Triangle's Audre Lorde Award for Poetry, a Firecracker Alternative Book Award, and has been a five-time finalist for the Lambda Literary Award. Gottlieb holds degrees from Mills College, Bard College, and Tulane University. She lives in San Francisco.