BLACK WOMEN WRITERS AT WORK IN THE 21ST CENTURY
Edited by Khadijah Queen
Foreword by Evie Shockley
Haymarket Books (2 February 2027)
Trade paper • ISBN-13: 9798888907740 • US $24.95 • 5 in x 8 in • 336 pgs.
ABOUT THE BOOK:
In the tradition of Claudia Tate’s classic book, re-envisioned for the 21st century, Khadijah Queen showcases fifteen leading Black women writers who are influencing the cultural and literary future
These writers, like the luminaries Tate interviewed forty years ago, demonstrate how their identities are integral to their creative processes in craft, thought, and imagination. Queen explores the impacts and influence of social media, artificial intelligence, disability, the business of writing, and other subjects crucial to imaginative and intellectual production of Black women writers at work today.
These poets, scientists, comic book artists, nonfiction writers, novelists, researchers, and playwrights provide a window into the connections between their lives and their art, offering an account of why and for whom they write.
Featuring conversations with: Elizabeth Alexander, Mahogany L. Browne, Rita Dove, Camille T. Dungy, Eve L. Ewing, Vievee Francis, Kaitlyn Greenidge, alexis pauline gumbs, Jzl Jmz, Morgan Parker, Imani Perry, Deesha Philyaw, Chanda Prescod-Weinstein, Treasure Shields Redmond, and Jesmyn Ward.
ABOUT THE AUTHOR:
Khadijah Queen holds a PhD in English from the University of Denver. She is the author of eight books of poetry and prose, including her Between the Devil and the Deep Blue Sea: A Veteran’s Memoir (Hachette, 2025) and I’m So Fine: A List of Famous Men & What I Had On:Poems. Her verse play Non-Sequitur (Litmus Press 2015) won the Leslie Scalapino Award for Innovative Performance Writing, and was performed by The Relationship Theater Company in New York City. She is a Cave Canem alum, a 2023 Civitella Ranieri Foundation Fellow, and a 2022 United States Artists Disability Futures Fellow. In 2025 the Foundation for Contemporary Arts recognized Queen’s work with the Cy Twombly Award in Poetry. She divides her time between Los Angeles and Blacksburg, Virginia.
RIGHTS INFORMATION:
Please contact subagents for the following languages and territories:
| Language/Territory | Subagent |
|---|---|
| China, Taiwan, Indonesia, Malaysia, and Vietnam | Big Apple Agency |
| Dutch | Sebes & Bisseling Literary Agency |
| English outside North America | David Grossman Literary Agency |
| French | Deborah Druba Agency |
| German | Paul & Peter Fritz AG Literatur Agentur |
| Greek | Read n' Right Agency |
| Hebrew | The Deborah Harris Agency |
| Italian | Berla & Griffini Rights Agency |
| Japanese | The English Agency (Japan) Ltd |
| Korean | BC Agency, or Korea Copyright Center |
| Portuguese | RIFF Agency |
| Russia/Baltics/Eastern Europe | Prava I Prevodi |
| Scandinavia | Sebes & Bisseling Literary Agency |
| Spanish in Latin America | MB Agencia Literaria |
| Spanish in Spain | MB Agencia Literaria |
| Turkish | Anatolialit Agency |
For all other languages/territories, please contact Roam Agency.