Khadijah Queen

Queen is the author of the full-length poetry collections Conduit (2008), Black Peculiar (2011), Fearful Beloved (2015), I'm So Fine: A List of Famous Men & What I Had On (2017), and Anodyne (2020).^[3] Her 2015 book Non-Sequitur is a verse play; it won the Leslie Scalapino Award for Innovative Women's Performance Writing in 2014 and was later produced in New York City in 2015.^[2]

In The New Yorker, Hanif Abdurraqib called I'm So Fine "an investigation of celebrity culture and toxic masculinity that moves at a lyrical sprint".^[9]

Fearful Beloved was reviewed in Kenyon Review by Abby Minor, who discussed its themes of violence, healing, and survival.^[10]

In 2021, Anodyne won the William Carlos Williams Award from the Poetry Society of America. In a review for Harvard Review, Hanna Andrews called the collection "riveting" and described it as concerned with "apocalypse and beauty; suffering and persistence; love and its attendant exhaustion".^[4][11]

In 2025, Queen received the Cy Twombly Award for Poetry from the Foundation for Contemporary Arts.^[12]

Her memoir Between the Devil and the Deep Blue Sea was published by Legacy Lit in 2025.^[13] Asked in a 2026 interview with WKAR how her experiences shaped her as a writer, including a Navy boot-camp episode described in the memoir in which she lost her security clearance, Queen connected such experiences to her commitment to speaking openly and telling “authentic stories.”^[14]

• Conduit (2008, Akashic Books)^[15][16]
• Black Peculiar (2011, Noemi Press)^[17]
• Fearful Beloved (2015, Argos Books)^[18]
• I'm So Fine: A List of Famous Men & What I Had On (2017, YesYes Books)^[19]
• Anodyne (2020, Tin House)^[20]

• Non-Sequitur (2015, Litmus Press)^[21][22]

• Between the Devil and the Deep Blue Sea (2025, Legacy Lit)^{[13][23][7][24]}