Khadijah Queen

Khadijah Queen is the author of eight books of poetry and prose, most recently Between the Devil & the Deep Blue Sea: A Veteran’s Memoir (Hachette Books/Legacy Lit 2025). Other books include Anodyne (Tin House 2020), which won the William Carlos Williams award from the Poetry Society of America, and 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 essay collection Radical Poetics: Essays on Literature & Culture was published by University of Michigan Poets on Poetry Series in 2025. With K. Ibura, she co-edited Infinite Constellations (FC2/University of Alabama Press 2023), a multigenre anthology by writers from the global majority. Queen is a Cave Canem alum, a 2022 United States Artists Disability Futures Fellow, and a 2023 Civitella Ranieri Foundation Fellow. Her verse play Non-Sequitur (Litmus Press 2015) won the Leslie Scalapino Award for Innovative Performance Writing, and was performed by The Relationship Theater Company in New York City in December 2015. Individual works appear in AGNI, Ploughshares, Harper’s, Gulf Coast, Nimrod, Poetry, Fence, and widely elsewhere. In 2025 the Foundation for Contemporary Arts recognized Queen’s work with the Cy Twombly Award in Poetry. She holds a PhD in English from the University of Denver, and an MFA in creative writing from Antioch University Los Angeles. Visit her website: khadijahqueen.com