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Michelle Tea

Michelle Tea

Michelle Tea is a 2021 Guggenheim Fellow. Her collection, Against Memoir, won an award from PEN/America for the Art of the Essay. She is the author of over a dozen books, including the cult classic Valencia and the dystopic hybrid-memoir Black Wave. She is the host of the popular mystical podcast Your Magic, runs the weekly live show Ask the Tarot on Spotify Greenroom, and is the author of the tarot how-t, Modern Tarot. Tea has created many literary interventions, including the global sensation Drag Queen Story Hour, and Sister Spit, which she started with Sini Anderson in 1993. Her latest memoir, Knocking Myself Up: A Memoir of my In/Fertility, is out from Dey Street Books, an imprint of HarperCollins.

Events, Classes, and Seminars

Our events, classes, and seminars bring the community together to hear, learn, and discuss the most compelling issues and ideas of our day. We hope you will join us in our downtown Literary Arts space, online, and at partnering venues across Portland and Oregon.