Khadijah Queen

• PhD in Creative Writing, University of Denver
• MFA studies, University of South Florida
• MFA in Creative Writing, Antioch University Los Angeles
• BA in English, University of Maryland

2019 

• Doris Schwalbe Research Travel Grant & London Residency, University of Colorado at Boulder
• Summer Faculty Research Grant ($6800), University of Colorado at Boulder
• Carolyn Woodward Pope Award ($2500), University of Colorado at Boulder for I'm So Fine: A List
• of Famous Men & What I Had On
• CAHSS Student Research Award, University of Denver

• Finalist: Julie Suk Poetry Award from Jacar Press, Balcones Poetry Prize, and CLMP Firecracker
• Award in Fiction for I'm So Fine: A List of Famous Men & What I Had On

• Pushcart Prize nomination, poetry

• Merit Scholarship ($4500), University of Denver
  
• Finalist, National Poetry Series for I'm So Fine: A List of Famous Men & What I Had On

• Pushcart Prize nomination, poetry

• Leslie Scalapino Award for Innovative Women Performance Writers ($2500), selected by Fiona
• Templeton, Tonya Foster, Caroline Bergvall and E. Tracy Grinnell

• Best of the Net Award, Sundress Publications, selected by Mary Biddinger

• Pushcart Prize nomination, poetry

• 2010 Noemi Award for Poetry; Black Peculiar selected by editors of Noemi Press
• Finalist, Switchback Books Gatewood Poetry Prize (withdrawn due to win at Noemi Press)

• Full tuition, housing and travel scholarship, Squaw Valley Community of Writers

• Idyllwild Arts Summer Poetry Fellowship

• Full tuition, room and board fellowship, Cave Canem Foundation

• Eloise Klein Healy Scholarship, Antioch University Los Angeles

• Two Pushcart Prize nominations, poetry

•  Navy Achievement Medal, US Navy
  

• Anodyne. Tin House Books, August 2020. Poetry.
• I'm So Fine: A List of Famous Men & What I Had On. YesYes Books 2017. Hybrid poetry/prose.
• Non-Sequitur. Litmus Press, 2015. Verse play.
• Fearful Beloved. Argos Books, 2015. Poetry.
• Black Peculiar. Noemi Press, 2011. Hybrid poetry/drama.
• Conduit. Black Goat/Akashic Books, 2008. Poetry.

Selected Anthologies (poetry)

• “I Want to Not Have to Write Another Word About Who the Cops Keep Killing.” Lift Every Voice: Why African American Poetry Matters Today. Kevin Young, ed. Library of America, forthcoming 2020.
• “Any Other Name.” In Halal if You Hear Me. Safia Elhillo and Fatimah Ashgar, eds. Haymarket Books 2019: 111-113.
• “The Dream Act,” “When I Met LL Cool J,” “I Want to Not Have to Write Another Word About Who the
• Cops Keep Killing.” Letters to the Future: Black Women / Radical Writing. Erica Hunt and Dawn Lundy Martin, eds. Kore Press 2018: 158-167.
• "Non-Sequitur: Act III." Family Resemblance: An Anthology and Exploration of 8 Hybrid Literary Genres. Marcela Sulak and Jacqueline Kolosov, eds. Rose Metal Press 2015: 220-228.
• Five poems from Black Peculiar. The Volta Book of Poets. Lily Hoang and Joshua Marie Wilkinson, eds. Sidebrow 2014: 247-252.
• "Inglewood Sunday, 1986." Everyman's Pocket Library of Villanelles. Annie Finch and Marie Elizabeth Mali, eds. Random House 2012: 131.
• "Bring the Rain." A Face to Meet the Faces: An Anthology of Contemporary Persona Poetry. Stacey Lynn Brown and Oliver de la Paz, eds. University of Akron Press 2012: 161.
• "Stretcher II." Best American Nonrequired Reading. Dave Eggers, ed. Houghton Mifflin 2010: 41.
• "The New Reb" and "Peacekeeping in Bunia." Fire and Ink: An Anthology of Social Action Writing. Frances Payne Adler, Debra Busman and Diana Garcia, eds. University of Arizona Press 2009: 46 and 312.
• "Stretcher I," "Stretcher II," and "35x36." Powder: Writing by Women in the Ranks, from Vietnam to Iraq. Lisa Bowden and Shannon Cain, eds. Kore Press 2008: 54-55, 65.