KHADIJAH QUEEN holds an MFA in creative writing from Antioch University Los Angeles. She is the author of two poetry collections: Conduit (Black Goat/Akashic 2008), and Black Peculiar, which won the 2010 Noemi Book Award for Poetry and was a finalist for the Switchback Books Gatewood Prize.

Individual poems, four times nominated for the Pushcart Prize, appear in jubilat, Fire and Ink: An Anthology of Social Action Writing (University of Arizona Press 2009), Best American Nonrequired Reading (Houghton Mifflin 2010) and A Face to Meet the Faces: An Anthology of Contemporary Persona Poems (University of Akron Press 2012) among many other journals and anthologies. View sample poems online at Poets.org, Muzzle, Esque, and In Posse Review.

The recipient of fellowships from Cave Canem, Squaw Valley Community of Writers and the Norman Mailer Writers' Colony, she curates the reading series Courting Risk and works full time as a transcript editor for a finance company.

Contact Khadijah here.