Ali Liebegott

Ali Liebegott (she/her) is a writer and painter. She is the author of four books: The Beautifully Worthless (Suspect Thoughts Press, 2005), The IHOP Papers (Carrol & Graf Press 2007), Cha-Ching! (City Lights, 2013), and The Summer of Dead Birds (Feminist Press, 2019). She cofounded the nonprofit RADAR LAB, a free annual retreat for queer writers, with Michelle Tea and Elizabeth Pickens. Liebegott is the recipient of two Lambda Literary Awards (2006 and 2008), a 2008 Ferro-Grumley Award, a 1999 New York Foundation for the Arts Fellowship in Poetry, and a 2015 Peabody Award for her work on the television series Transparent. She has read her writing throughout the United States and Canada solo and with Sister Spit's Ramblin' Road Show. Liebegott’s visual art has been exhibited at Ochi Gallery and Junior High Gallery in Los Angeles; the Institute of Contemporary Art in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania; the Contemporary Art Museum St. Louis in St. Louis, Missouri; Southern Exposure in San Francisco, California; and Invisible-Exports in New York City. Liebegott earned her MFA from Sarah Lawrence College. She lives and works in Los Angeles, California.