Khadijah Queen

Khadijah Queen is an associate professor in the Department of English as part of the award-winning creative writing faculty. 

Queen is the author of six books, including "I'm So Fine: A List of Famous Men & What I Had On." Earlier poetry collections include "Conduit," "Black Peculiar," and "Fearful Beloved." Her verse play "Non-Sequitur" won the Leslie Scalapino Award for Innovative Women's Performance Writing. The prize included a full staged production of the play at Theaterlab NYC
from in 2015 by Fiona Templeton's The Relationship theater company.

Individual poems and prose appear in Fence, Tin House, American Poetry Review, Buzzfeed, Gulf Coast, Poor Claudia, The Offing, Memoir, DIAGRAM, LitHub, Poetry, The Force of What's Possible and widely elsewhere. Other reviews of her work can be found in BOMB Magazine Publishers Weekly, Kenyon Review, and other publications. In 2019 she co-edited an op-ed on poetry and disability with Jillian Weise for The New York Times. Her sixth book is "ANODYNE."