LaTanya Denise McQueen
fiction, creative nonfiction, lyric essay, horror
Works (74)
2025 journal article
What Remains
[Nonfiction]. New Delta Review, 15(1). https://ndrmag.org/what-remains
2024 book
When the Reckoning Comes
In Olive Editions. https://www.harpercollins.com/products/when-the-reckoning-comes-latanya-mcqueen?variant=41369176670242
2023 journal article
Before It All Came Tumbling Down
[Nonfiction]. Shenandoah, 72(2).
2023 journal article
Installation Piece
[Nonfiction]. The Cincinnati Review, 20(2).
2023 journal article
The Time Before the Last Time You Disappeared
[Nonfiction]. Puerto Del Sol, 58(1).
2022 chapter book
The Lyric Essay as a Mode of Resistance
2021 chapter
Of A Confession, Sketched from Ten Vignettes
[Nonfiction]. In A Harp In the Stars: An Anthology of Lyric Essays. University of Nebraska Press.
2021 conference paper
Panel
Luther College Writers Festival. Presented at the Luther College Writers Festival.
2021 conference paper
Research and Reckoning: How Nonfiction Research Allows Us to Reckon with the Past
AWP Conference. Virtual, presented at the AWP Conference.
2021 journal article
What Visiting Plantations Taught Me About Historical Erasure
[Nonfiction]. Lit Hub.
2021 book
When the Reckoning Comes
In Harper Perennial. https://www.harpercollins.com/products/when-the-reckoning-comes-latanya-mcqueen?variant=32894632132642
2019 conference paper
Leading Lives, in Bondage or Free
Virginia Festival of the Book. Presented at the Virginia Festival of the Book, Charlottesville, VA.
2019 conference paper
Out of Our Time: Writing Dissent in Creative Nonfiction
Association of Writers and Writing Programs Conference (AWP). Presented at the Association of Writers and Writing Programs Conference (AWP), Portland, OR.
2018 journal article
Bit
[Fiction]. New Ohio Review.
2018 book review
Lessons From A Life: Alexander Chee’s How To Write An Autobiographical Novel
[Review of How to Write an Autobiographical Novel, by A. Chee]. The Rumpus.
2018 journal article
Middling
Pleiades: Literature in Context, 38(2), 101–108.

2018 journal article
Portrait of an American Male
[Nonfiction]. TriQuarterly, (154).
2018 conference paper
Reports from the Field: Recent Candidates Discuss the Academic Job Hunt
Association of Writers and Writing Programs Conference (AWP). Presented at the Association of Writers and Writing Programs Conference (AWP), Tampa, FL.
2018 journal article
The Tiny Man Inside Me
[Fiction]. West Branch, (87).
2018 journal article
We Were Never Free
[Nonfiction]. The Arkansas International, (4).
2017 journal article
A Plumb, Falling
[Nonfiction]. The Adroit Journal, (21).
2017 journal article
Admission
[Nonfiction]. The Los Angeles Review.
2017 journal article
And For By Grace
[Nonfiction]. Indiana Review, 39(1).
2017 journal article
Blackheart
[Fiction]. Rockhurst Review, (30th Anniversary Issue,).
2017 journal article
Jashanna
[Fiction]. The Florida Review, 41(2).
2017 journal article
Points of Interest
[Nonfiction]. Passages North, (38).
2017 conference paper
The Diggers: African American Folk Reimagining of the Night Doctors
American Folklore Society Conference (AFS). Presented at the American Folklore Society Conference (AFS), Miami, FL.
2016 journal article
After Water Comes the Fire
[Nonfiction]. Bennington Review, (2).
2016 journal article
As For Me And My House
[Nonfiction]. Carve Magazine.
2016 journal article
Before You Throw Her Body Down
[Nonfiction]. Ninth Letter.
2016 journal article
In the Name of the Fathers
[Nonfiction]. Fugue Literature Journal.
2016 journal article
The Mythology of the Axolotl
[Fiction]. Dogwood: A Journal of Poetry and Prose, 15.
2016 journal article
We Are All Already Gone
[Fiction]. New South, 8(1).
2015 journal article
Muscle Memory Of A Body That is Not Her Body
[Fiction]. Black Warrior Review, 42(2).
2015 journal article
The Balloonist Dreams of Flight
[Fiction]. Booth, 8.
2015 journal article
The Howler
[Fiction]. Permafrost.
2015 chapter
Wonder Wonderland
[Fiction]. In Microchondria II: 42 Short Short Stories Collected. Harvard Bookstore.
2014 journal article
Advice for the (Writing) Road
The Missouri Review.
2014 report
An Interview with Colson Whitehead
In The Missouri Review Soundbooth [Podcast interview].
2014 report
An Interview with Scott Garson, Editor of Wigleaf
In The Missouri Review Soundbooth [Interview].
2014 report
An Interview with The Fog Horn's Quinn Emmett
In The Lit Pub.
2014 journal article
Fifteen Attempts At Truth
[Nonfiction]. Portland Review, 60(3).
2014 book
Leopardia
In Day One [Fiction]. StoryFront.
2014 journal article
The Balloonist Dreams of Flight
[Fiction]. Booth, 6(11), 3.
2014 journal article
Violin Dreams
[Nonfiction]. Grist: The Journal for Writers, (7).
2013 journal article
A Handy Dandy Guide to Applying to PhD Programs
The Missouri Review.
2013 journal article
Believers
[Fiction]. New Orleans Review, 39(1).
2013 journal article
Writing Against Expectations: An Open Letter
The Missouri Review.
2012 journal article
A Little Ode to the Little Magazines and Their Very Big Work
The Missouri Review.
2012 journal article
Here If You Love Me
[Nonfiction]. Cobalt Review.
2012 journal article
On the Terra Roxa Earth We Saw Stars
[Fiction]. Nimrod International Journal, 55(2).
2012 journal article
Tell Me
[Fiction]. Yemassee, 19(2).
2012 chapter
The Burning City
[Fiction]. In Digital Americana.
2011 journal article
Dear Wigleaf
[Fiction]. Wigleaf.
2011 journal article
Echolocation: An Interview with Myfanwy Collins
[Interview]. Vernacular.
2011 journal article
Flash to Bang
[Fiction]. War, Literature, and the Arts, 23.
2011 journal article
How to Date A White Boy
[Fiction]. JMWW.
2011 book review
If Nobody Speaks of Remarkable Things by Jon McGregor
[Review of If Nobody Speaks of Remarkable Things, by J. McGregor]. HTMLGIANT.
2011 journal article
Leaving Bujumbura
[Fiction]. Fourteen Hills, 17(2).
2011 book review
Palo Alto by James Franco
[Review of Palo Alto, by J. Franco]. HTMLGIANT.
2011 journal article
Tender Deaths
[Fiction]. Wigleaf.
2011 journal article
To Build A House
[Fiction]. Gigantic Sequins, 2(2).
2010 journal article
In the Valley of the Kings
[Fiction]. Potomac Review, 47.
2010 journal article
The History of Adolescence As Told Through Made-For-Television
[Fiction]. You Must Be This Tall To Ride.
2009 journal article
Where You’ve Been
[Fiction]. Monkeybicycle.
2008 journal article
Coyotes
[Fiction]. North American Review.
2008 chapter
The Women of My Father
[Fiction]. In S. Almond (Ed.), Best of the Web 2008. Dzanc Press.
Ed(s): S. Almond
2007 chapter
Once
[Fiction]. In The 2007 Robert Olen Butler Prize Stories.
2007 journal article
The Women of My Father
[Fiction]. Blue Print Review.
2006 journal article
Crosswalk
[Fiction]. The Emerson Review.
2006 journal article
Disappeared
[Fiction]. The Summerset Review.
2006 chapter
How to Cheat On Your Wife
[Fiction]. In K. Rooney & A. Beckel (Eds.), Brevity and Echo: An Anthology of Short Short Stories. Rose Metal Press.
Ed(s): K. Rooney & A. Beckel
2005 journal article
How to Cheat on Your Wife
[Fiction]. Rumble.
Employment
Updated: January 17th, 2025 17:12
2023 - present
Education
Updated: January 29th, 2025 12:50
2012 - 2017
2007 - 2011
Funding History
Funding history based on the linked ORCID record. Updated: January 30th, 2025 08:19