Michelle Tea
| Michelle Tea | |
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| Born | Michelle Tomasik 1971 Chelsea, Massachusetts , United States |
| Occupation | Author, poet |
| Genres | Poetry, memoir, fiction |
Michelle Tea (b. Michelle Tomasik in 1971) is an American author, poet, and literary arts organizer whose autobiographical works explore queer culture, feminism, race, class, prostitution, and other topics.[1] She is originally from Chelsea, Massachusetts and currently lives in San Francisco.[2] Her books, mostly memoirs, are known for their views into the queercore community.[1] In 2012 Tea partnered with City Lights Publishers to form the Sister Spit imprint.[3]
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Spoken word and magazine writing[edit]
Tea was the co-founder of the Sister Spit spoken word tour.[1] She has toured with the Sex Workers' Art Show[4] alongside Ducky DooLittle and others. She is also a contributor to The Believer magazine[5] and is the co-writer of the weekly astrology column, Double Team Psychic Dream with astrologer Jessica Lanyadoo, in the San Francisco Bay Guardian newspaper.[4]
Academics[edit]
In February 2008, Michelle was the 23rd Zale Writer-in-Residence at the H. Sophie Newcomb Memorial College Institute at Tulane University.[6] She did not go to college and, in interviews, has discussed the assumption that she has studied.[4]
Critical Acclaim[edit]
While touring together in the year 2000, Tea and writer Clint Catalyst came up with the idea to solicit first-person narratives for their 2004 anthology Pills, Thrills, Chills and Heartache. Described by Publishers Weekly as a "celebrat[ion of] the avant-garde,"[7] the book, which includes work by Dennis Cooper and Eileen Myles reached #10 on the Los Angeles Times non-fiction paperback bestseller list in its first week of release.[8] Moreover, the book was a 2004 Lambda Literary Awards finalist in the Anthologies/Fiction category.[9] Indeed, her books have won a nomination in the competition virtually every year since her Valencia won for best Lesbian Fiction in 2000.[10][11][12][13][14][15]
She was awarded the Jim Duggins Outstanding Mid-Career Novelists' Prize by the Saints and Sinners Literary Festival in 2008.
Published Work[edit]
- The Passionate Mistakes and Intricate Corruption of One Girl in America (1998) ISBN 1-57027-074-0
- Valencia (2000) ISBN 1-58005-035-2
- The Chelsea Whistle (2002) ISBN 1-58005-073-5
- The Beautiful (2003) ISBN 0-916397-89-0
- Rent Girl (2004) ISBN 0-86719-620-3
- Rose of No Man's Land (2006) ISBN 1-59692-160-9
- Transforming Community (2007) ISBN 0-9789023-4-3
- Anthologies
- Pills, Thrills, Chills, and Heartache: Adventures in the First Person (ed. with Clint Catalyst) (2004) ISBN 1-55583-753-0
- Without A Net: The Female Experience of Growing Up Working Class (ed.) (2004) ISBN 1-58005-103-0
- Baby, Remember My Name: An Anthology of New Queer Girl's Writing (ed.) (2006) ISBN 0-7867-1792-0
- Sister Spit: Writing, Rants and Reminiscence from the Road (ed.) (2012) ISBN 0-87286-566-5
References[edit]
- ^ a b c Hellman, David (2004-04-11). "Tea leaves the East for the West to sing the body electric". San Francisco Chronicle. Retrieved 2007-08-09.
- ^ Tea, Michelle (ed.) (2007). Baby Remember My Name: An Anthology of New Queer Girl Writing. New York: Carroll & Graf. p. [page needed]. ISBN 0-7867-1792-0.
- ^ http://www.lambdaliterary.org/features/07/03/michelle-tea-a-writers-passion/ Lambda Literary, July 3, 2012.
- ^ a b c "Interview with Michelle Tea". After Ellen. May 2004. Retrieved 2010-03-17.
- ^ "Contributors: Michelle Tea". The Believer. Retrieved February 8, 2012.
- ^ "Zale Writer-in-Residence Program at Newcomb". Tulane.edu. Retrieved February 8, 2012.
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- ^ Paperbacks; BESTSELLERS; LOS ANGELES TIMES LIST FOR MARCH 14, 2004, Los Angeles Times, March 14, 2004 Unknown parameter
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- ^ "13th Annual Lambda Literary Awards". Lambda Literary. Retrieved February 8, 20128.
- ^ "15th Annual Lambda Literary Awards". Lambda Literary. Retrieved February 8, 2012.
- ^ "16th Annual Lambda Literary Awards". Lambda Literary. Retrieved February 8, 2012.
- ^ "17th Annual Lambda Literary Awards". Lambda Literary. Retrieved February 8, 2012.
- ^ "19th Annual Lambda Literary Awards". Lambda Literary. 2010-06-10. Retrieved February 8, 2012.
- ^ "20th Annual Lambda Literary Awards". Lambda Literary. Retrieved February 8, 2012.
External links[edit]
- Official website
- "Sister Spit Takes Over REDCAT". The Advocate.
- "Read Local: 10 New and Forthcoming Books from City Lights". SF Weekly.
- "Michelle Tea turns a radical eye on YA in Mermaid in Chelsea Creek". Los Angeles Times.
- "Tea and Spit". OUT.
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