Khadijah Queen holds a PhD in English and literary arts from the University of Denver. Her memoir, Between the Devil and the Deep Blue Sea: A Veteran’s Memoir, will be published by Legacy Lit in August 2025. She is the author of seven books of poetry and prose. Her work has been 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.” Queen is a Cave Canem alum, a 2022 United States Artists Disability Futures Fellow, a 2023 Civitella Ranieri Foundation Fellow, and winner of the 2025 Cy Twombly Award in Poetry from the Foundation for Contemporary Arts. Her verse play Non-Sequitur (Litmus Press 2015) won ​the Leslie Scalapino Award for Innovative Women’s Performance ​Writing, which included a full production at Theaterlab in New ​York City, directed by Fiona Templeton and performed by The ​Relationship theater company. A zuihitsu about the pandemic, ​“False Dawn,” appeared in Harper’s Magazine, was named a Notable ​Essay of 2020 in Best American Essays (HarperCollins 2021), and ​reprinted in the anthology Bigger Than Bravery: Black Resilience and Reclamation in a Time of Pandemic (2022), edited by Valerie Boyd, which was a Library Journal Best Book of 2022. Individual ​poems, interviews, and essays appear in Ploughshares, AGNI, American ​Poetry Review, Georgia Review, The Believer, Orion, Fence, Poetry,​ Yale Review, The Poetry Review (UK), and widely ​elsewhere. Her most recent book of poetry, Anodyne (Tin House 2020), won the William Carlos Williams Award from the Poetry Society of America. She teaches creative writing and literary theory.