Michelle Tea





Michelle Tea

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born
in Chelsea, Boston, Massachusetts, The United States
January 01, 1971

gender
female

genre

influences
Eileen Myles' Chelsea Girls, Cookie Mueller, Richard Hell, Jim Carroll...more


About this author

Michelle Tea is the author of 4 1⁄2 memoirs, 1 1⁄2 novels, and a collection of poetry. Her memoir Valencia is an underground classic and is currently being made into a feature film by 21 different filmmakers. She is the founder and executive director of RADAR Productions, a literary non-profit which hosts the monthly RADAR Reading Series (voted Best Literary Series by SF Bay Guardian readers), the infamous Sister Spit Literary Performance tours, an annual poetry chapbook contest, and the Radar LAB Writers’ Retreat in Akumal, Mexico. She is a former writer of horoscopes and a current reader of tarot cards.


Average rating: 3.74 · 8,802 ratings · 915 reviews · 13 distinct works · Similar authors
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“You try to be good, to be good and loving and nice and not hard, not tough, a sweet nice girl, not ugly, not full of ugliness, but people make it impossible.”
Michelle Tea

“Maybe if everyone walked around being in touch with each other's hidden pain it could work out and even be beautiful, but it doesn't feel safe to be the only compassionate person on the planet.”
Michelle Tea, Rose of No Man's Land

“I will meet you in the dirtiest city you can dream of. We will drink cocktails so sweet they pucker our cheeks, as we perch on cracked leather bar stools. I will buy you plates of calcium and protein and we will run through the streets in excellent danger.

Michelle Tea



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