Fiction. Young Adult Fiction. Poetry. African & African American Studies. Women's Studies. Hybrid Genre. Part 1980s and 1990s nostalgia, part exuberant storytelling, I'M SO FINE: A LIST OF FAMOUS MEN & WHAT I HAD ON turns a sharply humorous magnifying glass onto gendered interactions in daily life, framed primarily by random celebrity encounters in Los Angeles. Far from a narrative of fame-chasing or conceit, however, I'M SO FINE breathlessly addresses what it means for a woman to fight for dignity and survival in an often hostile environment, to come into her own power as she decides what she wants for herself "& mostly gets its every fineness." "I'M SO FINE is an accumulation that is the feminine memory that has had enough. This book is strength, is a critique, is subversive, is a woman, a fist, an lol, an F.U., a refusal, a gaze back at the gaze, is inevitable freedom wearing a flowered dress Kente cloth bomber jacket red lipstick white jeans a velvet choker white platform sandals a black turtleneck electric blue column dress an eggshell blouse with a high collar & pearl buttons is wearing a powerful woman's body and mind."—Natalie Diaz "The book is an investigation of celebrity culture and toxic masculinity that moves at a lyrical sprint [...]. We rush along with Queen, experiencing the world as she does, and wanting, like her, to desperately fight our way out of it." -- THE NEW YORKER "Ultimately, the 'Narrative' of I'm So Fine bends towards empowerment." -- LOS ANGELES REVIEW "[T]he real magic of I'm So Fine is the glimpse it gives into the internal lives of women, a close read on the subtleties that exist in interactions between a man a woman. Who holds the power? And how can the tables be reversed?" -- THE RIVETER "Queen places her body and life story within the complex, exoticized spectacle of celebrity. Her stories reveal a paradox at the center of fame: the cultural immortality that accompanies stardom also carries with it enormous vulnerability." -- HYPERALLERGIC "Its fresh humor and clear-eyed moral vision make it a perfect antidote to a time of oversimplified civil dialogue, of 'fake news' and its opposite." -- RAIN TAXI Khadijah Queen's fearless new collection, I'm So Fine: A List of Famous Men & What I Had On , is equal parts illuminating and disconcerting, much like the celebrity cultures and patriarchal systems the book critiques. These always stylish, quick-witted pieces serve as a pop culture archive--of almost forgotten R&B singers and A-list movie stars, rappers and comedians--while breaking down fame in all of its glittery, corporation-supported entitlement. By offering us a sophisticated new lens through which we might view self-actualization, Queen reframes our understandings of gender and notoriety. -- Adrian Matejka, author of THE BIG SMOKE Khadijah Queen is the author of Conduit (Black Goat / Akashic Books, 2008), BLACK PECULIAR (Noemi Press, 2011), which won the Noemi book award for poetry and was a finalist for the Gatewood Prize at Switchback Books; FEARFUL BELOVED (Argos Books, 2015), a hybrid collection framed by a letter to fear written during artist Ann Hamilton's Park Avenue Armory installation the event of a thread; and the narrative collection I'M SO FINE: A LIST OF FAMOUS MEN & WHAT I HAD ON (YesYes Books, 2017). Individual works appear in Fence, Tin House, Gulf Coast, The Offing, jubilat, Tupelo Quarterly, Poor Claudia, Best American Nonrequired Reading, THE VOLTA BOOK OF POETS, Fire & Ink: A Social Action Anthology , THE FORCE OF WHAT'S POSSIBLE and widely in other journals and anthologies. She serves as core faculty in poetry and playwriting for the low-residency Mile-High MFA in creative writing at Regis University. She is also raising a teenager.