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Mia McKenzie is a writer and the founder of the website Black Girl Dangerous (BGD). McKenzie identifies as a queer Black feminist and uses her writing and website to make space for LGBTQ people of color. Her debut novel, The Summer We Got Free, received the Lambda Literary Award in 2013. Her essays and short stories appear regularly on BGD as well as various publications, such as the Kenyon Review.

McKenzie has, and continues to, present talks that center around the intersections of race, class, queerness, and gender at universities and conferences.