Michelle Tea is the author of the author of over a dozen books, including the cult-classic Valencia, the essay collection Against Memoir, and her most recent title, Knocking Myself Up: A Memoir of My (In)Fertility. She is the recipient of awards from the Guggenheim, Lambda Literary, and Rona Jaffe Foundations, PEN/America, and other institutions. A literary organizer in queer and feminist circles, she co-created the long-running performance tour Sister Spit and founded RADAR Productions, a literary non-profit that oversees queer-centric projects, including the global phenomenon Drag Queen Story Hour, in which drag queens read stories to children in libraries, schools and bookshops.