Author Photo Credits: Marco Giugliarelli for the Civitella Ranieri Foundation, 2023
Khadijah Queen is the author of several books of innovative poetry and hybrid prose. Her memoir, Between the Devil & the Deep Blue Sea, is forthcoming in August 2025.
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A book of criticism, Radical Poetics: Essays on Literature & Culture, is available for preorder and forthcoming in January 2025. With K. Ibura, she co-edited Infinite Constellations (FC2 2023), an anthology of speculative writing by authors from the global majority. Her latest poetry book is Anodyne (Tin House 2020), a finalist for the Colorado Book Award and winner of the William Carlos Williams Award from the Poetry Society of America. Her fifth book, I'm So Fine: A List of Famous Men & What I Had On (YesYes Books 2017), was praised in O Magazine, The New Yorker, Rain Taxi, and elsewhere as “quietly devastating” and “a portrait of defiance that turns the male gaze inside out.” Her verse play Non-Sequitur (Litmus Press 2015) won the Leslie Scalapino Award for Innovative Women's Performance Writing, which included a full production at Theaterlab in New York City, directed by Fiona Templeton and performed by The Relationship theater company. A zuihitsu about the pandemic, “False Dawn,” appeared in Harper’s Magazine, was named a Notable Essay of 2020 in Best American Essays (HarperCollins 2021), and reprinted in the anthology Bigger Than Bravery (2023), edited by Valerie Boyd. Individual poems, interviews, and essays appear in Ploughshares, American Poetry Review, Georgia Review, The Believer, Orion, Fence, Poetry, Yale Review, The Offing, The Poetry Review (UK), and widely elsewhere. In 2022, she was awarded a Disability Futures fellowship from United States Artists. A Cave Canem alum, she holds a PhD in English and Literary Arts from University of Denver, an MFA from Antioch University Los Angeles, and teaches literature, poetics, and all genres of creative writing. She is currently working on a new book of poetry.