Khadijah Queen

Khadijah Queen is the author of seven books of poetry and prose, most recently a memoir of her time in the U.S. Navy, Between the Devil and the Deep Blue Sea (Legacy Lit/Hachette, forthcoming in August); a book of criticism, Radical Poetics: Essays on Literature & Culture (University of Michigan Press, 2025); and the collection Anodyne (Tin House Books, 2020), winner of the William Carlos Williams Award from the Poetry Society of America. Her poems and prose have appeared in Harper’s, Ploughshares, AGNI, American Poetry Review, the anthology You Are Here (Milkweed Editions, 2024), and elsewhere. She received this year’s Cy Twombly Award in Poetry from the Foundation for Contemporary Arts. Queen is a Civitella Ranieri Foundation Fellow, a Cave Canem alum, and holds a PhD in English from University of Denver. (updated 4/2025)