- Radar Productions was founded in 2003 by lesbian writer and spoken word artist Michelle Tea. Radar Productions organizes relevant, free, high-quality literary/spoken word events that give voice to cutting-edge queer and other writers and that link them to their audiences. Since early 2003, when Radar began staging monthly readings at San Francisco’s Main Library, the program has emerged as San Francisco’s highest profile LGBT literature series. Since 2003, Radar has organized more than 60 events that have enabled over 175 queer writers (almost a third of them from outside the Bay Area) to read their work before audiences exceeding 6,000 people. Low-income and working class lesbians between 25 and 35 years of age comprise a majority of our audiences. Almost all Radar events have been free to the public.
- Michelle Tea is the author of four memoirs, including the Lambda Award-winning Valencia and the illustrated Rent Girl; a collection of poetry, The Beautiful; and the recently published novel, Rose of No Man's Land. Tea is the creator of Radar, a literary outfit which produces events nationally, including the popular monthly Radar Reading Series at the San Francisco Public Library.
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