About the Author

Khadijah Queen is the author of BLACK PECULIAR (Noemi Press, 2011) and CONDUIT (Black Goat/Akashic Books, 2008). Individual poems, three times nominated for the Pushcart Prize, appear in jubilat, ELEVEN ELEVEN, 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) and Best American Nonrequired Reading (Houghton Mifflin, 2010) among many other journals and anthologies.