“michelle tea”

A whirlwind exploration of poverty and dropouts, "Rose of No Man's Land" is the world according to Trisha--a furious love story between two weirdo girls, brimming with snarky observations and soulful wonderings on the dazzle-flash emptiness of contemporary culture.Fourteen-year-old Trisha Driscoll i... More

"Tea writes with a raw-hearted, wry but wide-eyed ebullience, rendering dyke bohemia with intense, gritty, glittering romanticism."-"The San Francisco Bay Guardian" Before penning her contemporary classic "Valencia," Tea wrote wonderfully honest narrative poems, which she self-published in small edi... More

It's So You explores the intersection between style and personal expression through lively essays by 35 top women writers and artists. Six Feet Under Producer Jill Soloway cuts off her hair and wrestles the concept of "hotness"; transgender icon Kate Bornstein details her fashion evolution from flow... More

The fast-paced account of one girl's search for love and high times in the drama-filled dyke world of San Francisco's Mission District, "Valencia" conveys a blend of youthful urgency and apocalyptic apathy.In this gritty, confessional memoir, Michelle Tea takes the reader back to the city of her chi... More

With wry humor and hard-fought wisdom, the author of "Valencia" spins a magical web around her tumultuous childhood in Chelsea, Massachusetts--Boston's ugly, scrappy little sister.In this gritty, confessional memoir, Michelle Tea takes the reader back to the city of her childhood: Chelsea, Massachus... More

Published by Semiotext(e) to critical acclaim in 1998, Michelle Tea's debut novel "The Passionate Mistakes and Intricate Corruption of One Girl in America" quickly established Tea as an exciting new literary talent and the voice of a new generation of queer, bisexual, transgendered, and straight you... More

A graphic and uncompromising autobiographical bender, the story of Tea's years as a prostitute, with provocative illustrations by Laurenn McCubbin.... More

These concrete narrative poems imbued with Eli Coppola's straightforward, feisty sensibility explore the difficulties and rewards of love: what one goes through to love and be loved. Class ("Huddle When the Sky Turns Yellow"), social injustice ("Jury Duty"), and mortality ("Casual Hands, Brutal Star... More

Best Lesbian Erotica 2004 journeys into the world of lesbian sex with uncommon, edgy stories that push lesbian lust and desire to new heights. This year's stories are selected by award-winning author Michelle Tea, whose gritty, personal writing has earned her top accolades.... More

Tea presents new work by 22 of the most outstanding emerging voices in queer girl writing. Fiction is matched in excitement by graphic novel excerpts and personal essays.Michelle Tea, a favorite on the spoken-word scene and beloved in literary circles for books such as Valencia, Chelsea Whistle and ... More