Ali Liebegott is a writer and painter that currently resides in Los Angeles. She’s published four books: The Beautifully Worthless, The IHOP Papers, Cha-Ching!, and The Summer of Dead Birds. She’s the recipient of a Peabody Award, two Lambda Literary Awards and a Ferro-Grumley Award.

With the legendary queer literary group Sister Spit, she has read and preformed her work throughout the United States and Canada. In collaboration with Michelle Tea and Elizabeth Pickens she created The RADAR LAB, a free queer writer’s retreat from 2009-2013. In 2010 she took a train trip across America to interview poets for a project called The Heart has many Doors—.

In addition to writing, she is a painter. Her most recent show was Rooms and Other Feelings at Ochi Gallery in Los Angeles. She also writes for TV.