Gordon Dahlquist is a playwright and novelist.  His plays have been performed in New York, Los Angeles, Minneapolis, and Portland. He has been a member of New Dramatists, and is a New York Theatre Workshop Usual Suspect.  His works include: TEA PARTY (Bay Area Playwrights Festival), VENICE SAVED (with David Levine, PS122, New York), MESSALINA (Evidence Room, Los Angeles, Garland Award for Playwriting; SPF, New York), BABYLON IS EVERYWHERE: A COURT MASQUE [text] (CINE, Schaeberle Theatre; Theatre Magazine), DELIRIUM PALACE (Evidence Room, Los Angeles, Garland Award for Playwriting; published in Breaking Ground), THE SECRET MACHINE (Walker Space), VORTEX DU PLAISIR (Ohio Theatre), and ISLAND OF DOGS (4th Street Theatre).  His first novel, The Glass Books of the Dream Eaters, was a NY Times bestseller and has been published in 30 countries.

Originally from the Pacific Northwest, he has made his home in New York City since 1988.