Lindsay King-Miller MFA

Biography

Lindsay King-Miller was the director of the Tucson Poetry Festival, founded the Tucson Poetry Slam, toured as a slam poet, taught composition and creative writing to middle school, high school, and college students, and wrote the popular advice column “Ask A Queer Chick.” Her first book, Ask A Queer Chick: A Guide to Sex, Love, and Life for Girls who Dig Girls, was published by Plume in 2016. Her personal essays and culture writing have appeared in Bitch Magazine, Glamour Magazine, Vice.com, Cosmopolitan.com, The Guardian, and many other publications in print and online. 

More recently, she has returned to her early love of horror and speculative fiction. Her short stories and poetry have appeared in Fireside Fiction, Baffling Magazine, The Deadlands, the NoSleep podcast, and numerous other lit mags and anthologies. 

Her debut horror novel, The Z Word, was published by Quirk Books in 2024. Her second novel, This Is My Body, is forthcoming from Quirk in 2025, followed by Dorian/Gray, a dystopian thriller retelling of Oscar Wilde’s classic, coauthored with Rachel Feder, in 2026. Lindsay is represented by Kate McKean at Howard Morhaim Literary Agency. She lives in Denver, Colorado with her partner and their two children.