Tucson Festival of Books

Michelle Tea (She/Her)



Hadley Rosenbaum

Michelle Tea is the author of over 20 books, most recently the novel "Little F." Her memoir, "Valencia," won the Lambda Literary Award for Best Lesbian Fiction. She has received the PEN/America Diamonstein-Spielvogel Award, the legendary Rona Jaffe Award, and was a 2021 Guggenheim Fellow. She is also the instigator of many literary interventions, such as the Sister Spit feminist performance tours, Drag Queen Story Hour, and DOPAMINE Books, an innovative, queer publishing collaboration with Semiotext(e).

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Awards: Guggenheim Fellow, PEN Literary Award, Lambda Literary Award; Rona Jaffe Award

Communities: LGBTQ+


Books:
Little F
Fiction / Literature
Feminist Press at The City University of New York
October 2025
ISBN 9781558613560
232 pages

Valencia
Fiction / Literature
Basic Books
June 2025
ISBN 9781541606777
288 pages