A book of criticism, Radical Poetics: Essays on Literature & Culture, was published by the Poets on Poetry Series at University of Michigan Press in January 2025. With K. Ibura, she co-edited Infinite Constellations (FC2 2023), an anthology of speculative writing by authors from the global majority. Her most recent poetry book is Anodyne (Tin House 2020), a finalist for the Colorado Book Award and winner of the William Carlos Williams Award from the Poetry Society of America. Her fifth book, I'm So Fine: A List of Famous Men & What I Had On (YesYes Books 2017), was praised in O Magazine, The New Yorker, Rain Taxi, and elsewhere as “quietly devastating” and “a portrait of defiance that turns the male gaze inside out.”
Her verse play Non-Sequitur (Litmus Press 2015) won the Leslie Scalapino Award for Innovative Women's Performance Writing, which included a full production at Theaterlab in New York City, directed by Fiona Templeton and performed by The Relationship theater company. A zuihitsu about the pandemic, “False Dawn,” appeared in Harper’s Magazine, was named a Notable Essay of 2020 and was reprinted in the anthology Bigger Than Bravery (2023), edited by Valerie Boyd. Individual poems, interviews, and essays appear in Ploughshares, American Poetry Review, The Georgia Review, The Believer, Orion, Fence, Poetry, Yale Review, The Offing, The Poetry Review (UK), and widely elsewhere. In 2022, she was awarded a Disability Futures fellowship from United States Artists. A Cave Canem alum and Civitella Ranieri Fellow, she holds a PhD in English and Literary Arts from University of Denver. As a creative writing professor, she has taught American literature, poetics, and all genres of creative writing at University of Colorado at Boulder, Regis University, and Virginia Tech. In 2025, she received the Cy Twombly Award for Poetry from the Foundation for Contemporary Arts. She is currently writing a new book of poetry and a collection of travel essays.
Praise for BETWEEN THE DEVIL & THE DEEP BLUE SEA
“Between the Devil and the Deep Blue Sea is a large-hearted, compulsively readable memoir shot through with courage and razor-sharp intelligence. Queen’s magnificent personal reckoning helps me to ponder what new forms of relation might be possible between ourselves, our nation, and the many institutions charged with stewarding the common good.”―TRACY K. SMITH, Pulitzer Prize winning poet, author of Life on Mars and Wade in the Water
