Queer Voices

Since its beginnings in 1993, the Queer Voices reading series has featured both emerging and established Minnesota-based writers of the LGBTQIA+ community. With a track record of more than twenty years, the series has become a national model and one of Minnesota's most important literary institutions. It is reputed to be the longest-running curated queer reading series in the country.


In this volume, series curators John Medeiros and Andrea Jenkins and facilitator Lisa Marie Brimmer present the finest poetry, fiction, and nonfiction pieces by the presenters. Their work, generated and performed in a powerful space of understanding, explores the material of life without internal or external censorship. Living, loving, working, learning, playing, reflecting, knowing, inventing, and being—these magnificent queer voices affirm the importance of civil literacy and the power of vulnerability.

Contributors: Cole Bauer, Ryan Berg, Stephani Maari Booker, Lisa Marie Brimmer, Kimberly Brown, Nate Cannon, Anthony Ceballos, Stephanie Chrismon, James Cihlar, Venus de Mars, Jay Eisenberg, Gary Eldon Peter , Kelly Frankenberg, Ben French, Julie Gard, Christina Glendenning, Rachel Gold, Molly Beth Griffin, CM Harris, Elizabeth Jarrett Andrew, Andrea Jenkins, Kristin Johnso, Michael Kiesow Moore , Bronson Lemer, Raymond Luczak, Catherine Lundoff, Josina Manu, John Medeiros, Nasreen Mohamed, Ahmad Qais Munhazim, Janauda Petrus, Trina Porte, Karolyn Redoute, William Reichard, Katie Robinson, Dua Saleh, Lucas Scheelk, Erin Sharkey, Nicole Smith, Christine Stark, Vanessa Taylor, Bradford Tice, Ann Tweedy, Morgan Grayce Willow, S. Yarberry, Ariel Zitny