Khadijah Queen In Conversation with Michael Dumanis

OPEN TO THE PUBLIC | Join Michael Dumanis in a Q&A with visiting poet Khadijah Queen.

Khadijah Queen is ​the author of six books, most recently 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. Individual ​poems, interviews, and essays appear in American ​Poetry Review, The Believer, Fence, Georgia Review, and Poetry. In 2022, she was awarded a Disability Futures fellowship​ from United States Artists. A Cave Canem alum, she is an associate professor of Creative Writing at Virginia Tech.

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