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Khadijah Queen

Khadijah Queen
Khadijah Queen is the author of Conduit, Black Peculiar, Fearful Beloved, Non-Sequitur, and I’m So Fine: A List of Famous Men & What I Had On. A finalist for the National Poetry Series, the Balcones Poetry Prize, and the CLMP Firecracker Award in Fiction, she is an assistant professor of creative writing at University of Colorado at Boulder, and serves as core faculty for the low-residency Mile-High MFA program at Regis University.


Khadijah Queen on What It’s Like to Write Poetry on a Naval Destroyer

“I’d steal a moment to write future me into existence, or to write my way through my feelings after another tedious day.”
August 6, 2025  By Khadijah Queen
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Khadijah Queen on the Value of Intimacy and Self-Care for Someone on the Asexual Spectrum

“True intimacy means striving for complete knowing.”
May 2, 2024  By Khadijah Queen
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Two Poems by Khadijah Queen

From Anodyne
August 19, 2020  By Khadijah Queen
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Deleted Characters

Literary Hub Poem of the Week
October 21, 2015  By Khadijah Queen
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I want to not have to write another word about who the cops keep killing

After Michael Brown: Khadija Queen
August 11, 2015  By Khadijah Queen
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