I'm a mother, a sister, a proofreader, an event organizer, a lover of women's performance art and Canadian soap operas involving time-travel. I write every single day.

For the more formal literary stuff, please see my website: www.khadijahqueen.com.

My books of poetry are: Black Peculiar (Noemi Press, forthcoming 2011) and Conduit (Black Goat/Akashic 2008). Journals: jubilat, Eleven Eleven, Poemmemoirstory, and many others. Anthologies: Best American Nonrequired Reading (Houghton Mifflin, 2010); Fire and Ink: An Anthology of Social Action Writing (University of Arizona Press, 2009); Powder: Writing by Women in the Ranks, from Vietnam to Iraq. (Kore Press, 2008); A Face to Meet the Faces: An Anthology of Persona Poems (University of Akron Press 2012); and Breakfast and Black Fist: Notes for Black Poets, forthcoming from University of Michigan Press.

I edit/give feedback on manuscripts.