Khadijah Queen holds an MFA in creative writing from Antioch University Los Angeles. The recipient of fellowships from Cave Canem, Idyllwild Summer Poetry and the Norman Mailer Writers' Colony, her poetry has been nominated for the Pushcart Prize four times. She is currently working on her third manuscript.

Black Peculiar (Noemi Press, 2011), Conduit (Black Goat/Akashic Books, 2008), no isla encanta (Dancing Girl Press, Chicago, 2007)

A Face to Meet the Faces: An Anthology of Contemporary Persona Poetry (University of Akron Press, 2012), Villanelles (Random House, 2012), Best American Nonrequired Reading (Houghton Mifflin, 2010), Fire and Ink: An Anthology of Social Action Writing (University of Arizona Press, 2009), Powder: Writing by Women in the Ranks, from Vietnam to Iraq (Kore Press, 2008)

Adirondack Review, Aufgabe, In Posse Review, jubilat, new ohio review, Pedestal Magazine, PMS: poemmemoirstory, Salt River Review, Spillway, Three Candles