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+

Queer Love, Loss, and Representation

Representation matters. From the lives we see reflected on the page to the stories that challenge dominant narratives, queer storytelling has the power to validate experience, foster empathy, and expand our understanding of love and identity.

Student Union Santa Rita (Seats 110)  
Sat, Mar 14, 1:00 pm - 1:55 pm
Fiction / Literature
Signing area: UA Campus Store Book Sales (Mall) (following presentation)  

Panelists: Michelle Tea, Thrity Umrigar, Alejandro Varela
Moderator: Scott St. Marie
Sponsors: Session made possible courtesy of Joi and Bianca Bowen, Roberta and Bill Witchger, Jack and Katrina McNerney

Desert Dreams: Escapes and Reinvention

What draws us to (or away from) the desert? Is it the promise of escape, its silence, its capacity for transformation? In this session, our three authors will explore the desert as both landscape and metaphor, a place where grief, reinvention, and self-discovery take root in the heat and emptiness.

Student Union Santa Rita (Seats 110)  
Sun, Mar 15, 1:00 pm - 1:55 pm
Fiction / Literature
Signing area: UA Campus Store Book Sales (Mall) (following presentation)  

Panelists: Evanthia Bromiley, Michelle Tea, Joshua Wheeler
Moderator: Liz Warren-Pederson
Sponsors: Session made possible courtesy of Joi and Bianca Bowen, Roberta and Bill Witchger

Books:

Little F

Fiction / Literature
Feminist Press at The City University of New York
October 2025
ISBN 9781558613560
232 pages
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Valencia

Fiction / Literature
Basic Books
June 2025
ISBN 9781541606777
288 pages
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