the 2001 Lesbian Fiction nomination and award for Valencia. She was awarded the Jim Duggins Outstanding Mid-Career Novelists' Prize by the Saints and Sinners Literary Festival in 2008. Personal life Michelle Tea was in a relationship with Katastrophe, a transgender hip-hop artist, for many years. They shared an apartment in the North Beach district of San Francisco. In 2013, Tea married Dashiell Lippman at the Swedish American Hall in San Francisco. In 2015, her son was born. In 2020, it was reported that Tea and Lippmann had broken up. In June 2021, Tea became engaged to TJ Payne. Published work The Passionate Mistakes and Intricate Corruption of One Girl in America (1998) Valencia (2000) The Chelsea Whistle (2002) The Beautiful (2003) Rent Girl (2004) Rose of No Man's Land (2006) Transforming Community (2007) Coal to Diamonds: A Memoir (2013) (with Beth Ditto) Mermaid in Chelsea Creek (2013) How to Grow Up: A Memoir (2015) Girl at the Bottom of the Sea (2015) Black Wave (2016) ; And Other Stories, UK Modern Tarot: Connecting with Your Higher Self Through the Wisdom of the Cards (2017) Against Memoir: Complaints, Confessions & Criticisms (2018) ; And Other Stories, UK Knocking Myself Up: A Memoir of My (In)Fertility (2022) Anthologies Pills, Thrills, Chills, and Heartache: Adventures in the First Person (ed. with Clint Catalyst) (2004) Without a Net: The Female Experience of Growing Up Working Class (ed.) (2004) Baby, Remember My Name: An Anthology of New Queer Girl's Writing (ed.) (2006) Sister Spit: Writing, Rants and Reminiscence from the Road (ed.) (2012) See also Lesbian poetry References External links 1971 births Living people 21st-century American memoirists American women poets Lambda Literary Award for Lesbian Fiction winners American lesbian writers Writers from Chelsea, Massachusetts Writers from the San Francisco Bay Area American LGBT poets LGBT people from Massachusetts LGBT people from California American women memoirists Rona Jaffe Foundation Writers' Award winners 21st-century American poets Lesbian memoirists 21st-century American women writers