Michelle Tea

Michelle Tea
Tea at the 2018 Texas Book Festival
BornMichelle Tomasik
1971 (age 5354)
Chelsea, Massachusetts, United States
Occupation
  • Author
  • poet
  • director
GenrePoetry, memoir, fiction

Michelle Tea (born Michelle Tomasik, 1971) is an American author, poet, and literary arts organizer whose autobiographical works explore queer culture, feminism, race, class, sex work, and other topics. She is originally from Chelsea, Massachusetts and was active in the San Francisco literary and arts community for many years. She currently lives in Los Angeles. Her books, mostly memoirs, are known for their exposition of the queercore community.