"Childhood is morbid," declares Tea, author of the Lambda Award–winning Valencia, in this gritty girlhood memoir. As a kid, she perfected the art of playing dead. In her teens, she was deep into ...

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At several points during my thoroughly enjoyable read of Michelle Tea’s debut novel, Rose of No Man’s Land, I was acutely self-conscious of the fact that I was reading a book whose target audience was ...

For a while now, when writing to a friend to congratulate them on a new baby, I have been signing off with, “It’s the beginning of a great adventure.” I like the way the phrase sounds, especially when ...

Set in the Nineties queer scenes of San Francisco and Los Angeles, Wave is both a sprawling ode to the people who have filled Tea’s life as a poet and LGBT activist, and an earnest introspection on ...

Queer writers Michelle Tea and Brooke Palmieri both believe in magic. The protagonist of Tea’s new coming-of-age novel, Little F (Feminist Press, 232 pages, $17.95), finds it figuratively in the queer ...

If you’ve spent any time wading into the confusing waters of IVF discourse, you likely already know how difficult it can be to find a place in the conversation if you’re not a straight, white, and ...

Michelle Tea, our patron saint of queer, feminist writing, has penned everything from cult classics like Valencia and Black Wave to Modern Tarot,p a how-to guide on taroting reading. During the ...

Even if you’re as prolific as Michelle Tea — the author whose books include The Passionate Mistakes, The Chelsea Whistle, Rent Girl, and Valencia,Rose of No Man’s Land, and most recently, Black Wave — ...

Michelle Tea always wanted to become a publisher. “Publishing has been my dream for decades,” the author and literary organizer confessed. But for most of her career that dream felt out of reach. She ...

"Crack this marvel open in which Michelle Tea details "having" a baby in a way that's part science experiment, part space voyage and maybe largest part prayer. She delivers her tale with enormous ...

Writer and editor Michelle Tea's latest effort to bring new voices into the world is a fledgling press called Dopamine. (Chiara Alexa / For The Times) Hedi El Kholti, left, co-editor of the legendary ...