# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/michelle-tea
# Generated: 2026-08-13T18:11:41.807Z

schema: https://schema.org/Person
url: "https://fame.am/person/michelle-tea"
name: "Michelle Tea"
slug: "michelle-tea"
description: "Michelle Tea is an American author, poet, and literary arts organizer whose autobiographical works explore queer culture, feminism, race, class, sex work, and other topics. She is originally from Chelsea, Massachusetts and was active in the San Francisco literary and arts community for many years. She currently lives in Los Angeles. Her books, mostly memoirs, are known for their exposition of the queercore community."
tagline: "American writer"
image: "https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:FilePath/Michelle_Tea_01.jpg?width=1200"
gender: "female"
country:
  name: "United States"
  isoCode: "US"
category:
  name: "Writers"
  slug: "writers"
profileType:
  name: "Writer / Author"
  slug: "writer"
birthDate: "1971"
livingStatus: "LIVING"
scores:
  popularity:           48.13
  momentum:             10.04250217959895
  historical:           5.056772
  currentAttention:     0
  sourceConfidence:     35
  profileCompleteness:  75
  trendDirection:       "RISING"
ranks:
  global:   null
  country:  null
  category: null
platforms:
  - platform:  "WEBSITE"
    url:       "http://www.radarproductions.org/michelletea.html"
sources:
  - url: "https://ar.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D9%85%D9%8A%D8%B4%D9%8A%D9%84_%D8%AA%D9%8A"
    title: "ميشيل تي"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Michelle_Tea"
    title: "Michelle Tea"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Michelle_Tea"
    title: "Michelle Tea"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://es.wikipedia.org/wiki/Michelle_Tea"
    title: "Michelle Tea"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://fr.wikipedia.org/wiki/Michelle_Tea"
    title: "Michelle Tea"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q6837263"
    title: "Wikidata"
    type:  "WIKIDATA"

# bio (long form, separated for readability)
bio: |
  Imported from discovery source: wikidata-dump