LaTanya McQueen
Bio
Dr. McQueen is the recipient of grants from the National Endowment of the Arts, the Money for Women/Barbara Deming Memorial Fund, and the Elizabeth George Foundation. She is the author of two books—the essay collection And It Begins Like This (Black Lawrence Press, 2017), selected for two campus One Read Programs and made into a play, and the novel When the Reckoning Comes (Harper Perennial, 2021; Olive Editions 2024), a Goodreads Choice nominee and Bram Stoker Award finalist.
Her stories and essays have been published in over fifty journals, including Hayden’s Ferry Review, Cincinnati Review, Shenandoah, TriQuarterly, West Branch, Pleiades, New Ohio Review, The Arkansas International, The Florida Review, Bennington Review, Passages North, Black Warrior Review, Fourteen Hills, The North American Review, Ninth Letter, New Orleans Review, and Indiana Review, among others, as well as having won the Disquiet Prize (for nonfiction), the Walker Percy Prize (for fiction), and the Best of the Net (for nonfiction).
She received her MFA from Emerson College, her PhD from the University of Missouri, and was the 2017-2018 Robert P. Dana Emerging Writer Fellow at Cornell College.
She is currently working on a hybrid collection, excerpts of which have been awarded a creative writing fellowship to the Vermont Studio of the Arts and shortlisted for a Creative Capital Award, and is writing another novel.
Education
MFA Writing, Literature, and Publishing Emerson College 2011
PHD English University of Missouri-Columbia 2017
Area(s) of Expertise
Creative Writing-Fiction and Creative Nonfiction
African American Literature
Transnational Literature
Publications
- What Remains , New Delta Review (2025)
- When the Reckoning Comes , Olive Editions (2024)
- Before It All Came Tumbling Down , Shenandoah (2023)
- Installation Piece , The Cincinnati Review (2023)
- The Time Before the Last Time You Disappeared , Puerto Del Sol (2023)
- The Lyric Essay as a Mode of Resistance , Bending Genre (2022)
- Of A Confession, Sketched from Ten Vignettes , A Harp In the Stars: An Anthology of Lyric Essays (2021)
- Panel , Luther College Writers Festival (2021)
- Research and Reckoning: How Nonfiction Research Allows Us to Reckon with the Past , AWP Conference (2021)
- What Visiting Plantations Taught Me About Historical Erasure , Lit Hub (2021)