Khadijah Queen holds an MFA in creative writing from Antioch University Los Angeles. She is the author of two poetry collections: Conduit (Black Goat/Akashic 2008), and Black Peculiar, which won the 2010 Noemi Book Award for Poetry. Individual poems, four times nominated for the Pushcart Prize, appear in jubilat, Best American Nonrequired Reading (Houghton Mifflin 2010) and many other journals and anthologies.

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