Khadijah Queen

Khadijah Queen holds a PhD in English from the University of Denver. She is the author of seven books of poetry and prose, including 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.” Anodyne (Tin House 2020) was the winner of the William Carlos Williams Award from the Poetry Society of America. 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) 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, The Offing, Poetry, Fence, The New York Times, and widely elsewhere. In 2025 the Foundation for Contemporary Arts recognized Queen’s work with the Cy Twombly Award in Poetry. She divides her time between the US, the UK, and France. Visit her website: khadijahqueen.com