San Francisco-based Performance Poet Daphne Gottlieb stitches together the ivory tower and the gutter just using her tongue. She is the editor of Fucking Daphne: Mostly True Stories and Fictions and Homewrecker: An Adultery Reader, as well as the author of the poetry books Kissing Dead Girls, Final Girl, Why Things Burn and Pelt.. Her graphic novel Jokes and the Unconscious, featuring the artwork of Hothead Paisan's illustrator, Diane DiMassa, was called “brilliant and unsettling” by Publishers Weekly. Final Girl was the winner of the Audre Lorde Award in Poetry for 2003 from Publishing Triangle and was named one of The Village Voice's “Favorite Books of 2003.” Why Things Burn was the winner of a 2001 Firecracker Alternative Book Award (Special Recognition—Spoken Word) and was also a finalist for the Lambda Literary Award for 2001.

Gottlieb currently teaches at New College of California, and has performed and taught creative writing workshops around the country, from high schools and colleges to community centers. She received her MFA from Mills College.