Michelle Tea
Michelle Tea is the author of over a dozen books of memoir, fiction, poetry and children's lit--including her latest, Knocking Myself Up . Her memoir Valencia won the Lambda Literary Award for Best Lesbian Fiction, even though it was obviously all true. It was also made into a sprawling, feature-length art film using nearly twenty different directors and different Michelles. Her recent-ish essay collection, Against Memoir , was awarded the PEN/America Diamonstein-Speilvogel Award for the Art of...See more
Michelle Tea is the author of over a dozen books of memoir, fiction, poetry and children's lit--including her latest, Knocking Myself Up . Her memoir Valencia won the Lambda Literary Award for Best Lesbian Fiction, even though it was obviously all true. It was also made into a sprawling, feature-length art film using nearly twenty different directors and different Michelles. Her recent-ish essay collection, Against Memoir , was awarded the PEN/America Diamonstein-Speilvogel Award for the Art of the Essay. She is also the recipient of the legendary Rona Jaffe Awards, and a 2021 Guggenheim Fellow. See less
