Khadijah Queen is the author of six books of innovative poetry and hybrid prose, most recently Anodyne (Tin House 2020), winner of the William Carlos Williams award from the Poetry Society of America. Her fifth book is I'm So Fine: A List of Famous Men & What I Had On (YesYes Books 2017), 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, and included a full staged production by The Relationship theater company in New York City. Individual poems and prose appear in American Poetry Review, Ploughshares, The Yale Review, Poets & Writers Magazine, The Poetry Review (UK) and widely elsewhere. A zuihitsu about the pandemic, “False Dawn,” appeared in Harper’s Magazine and was selected as a Notable Essay by Best American in 2020. In 2022, she received a Disability Futures Fellowship from United States Artists, and she was a Civitella Ranieri Foundation Fellow in 2023. A Cave Canem fellow, she holds a PhD in English and Literary Arts from University of Denver and teaches creative writing, literature, and poetics at Virginia Tech. Her book of literary theory and criticism, Radical Poetics, will be published in 2025 as part of the Poets on Poetry series at University of Michigan Press.
