Like Phoebe Gloeckner's Diary of a Teenage Girl, Michelle Tea's Rent Girl is an illustrated novel about a young dyke's adventures in and out of the sex industry on both the East and West Coasts. A side story to Tea's other novels, The Passionate Mistakes and Intricate Corruption of One Girl in America and Valencia, this book explores in depth her ambivalence to the sex industry, which she found to be an exciting outlaw occupation one minute and a traumatic existential nightmare the next.

Author Biography

Michelle Tea is the author of Valencia, which captured the 2000 Lambda Literary Award for Best Lesbian Fiction, was selected by the Voice Literary Supplement as one of the top twenty-five books of the year, and earned Tea both a San Francisco Bay Guardian "Goldie Award" for Literature and a prestigious award from the Rona Jaffe Foundation for female writers at the start of their careers. Tea's third book, The Chelsea Whistle, was nominated for a Lambda Literary Award in the Autobiography category, and was selected by the San Francisco Chronicle as one of the top 100 books of 2002.