LaTanya McQueen is the recipient of grants from the National Endowment of the Arts, the Money for Women/Barbara Deming Memorial Fund for feminist fiction, and the Elizabeth George Foundation. She is the author of two books—the essay collection And It Begins Like This (Black Lawrence Press, 2017) and the novel When the Reckoning Comes (Harper Perennial, 2021; Olive Editions 2024), a Goodreads Choice nominee and Bram Stoker Award finalist.

Her stories and essays have been published in Hayden’s Ferry Review, Cincinnati Review, Shenandoah,  TriQuarterly, West Branch, Pleiades, New Ohio Review, The Arkansas International, The Florida Review, Bennington Review, Passages North, Black Warrior Review, Fourteen Hills, The North American Review, Ninth Letter, New Orleans Review, Indiana Review, and other journals, as well as having won the Disquiet Prize (for nonfiction), the Walker Percy Prize (for fiction), and the Best of the Net (for nonfiction).

She received her MFA from Emerson College, her PhD from the University of Missouri, and was the 2017-2018 Robert P. Dana Emerging Writer Fellow at Cornell College.

For the past several years, she was the CNF Editor for Gigantic Sequins and the Associate Editor for Story Magazine. She also served as a Board Member for the Iowa City UNESCO City of Literature .

She currently is an Assistant Professor of English at North Carolina State University where she teaches in their MFA Program. Since 2022, she has been faculty at the Yale Writers’ Workshop teaching both fiction and nonfiction. She also has been faculty at PNCA’s low-residency program.

She is currently working on a collection of experimental nonfiction essays, excerpts of which have been awarded a creative writing fellowship to the Vermont Studio of the Arts and shortlisted for a Creative Capital Award, and is writing another novel–this one about werewolves.

She is represented by Monika Woods at Triangle House Literary.