Karen Tongson (born August 23, 1973 in Manila, Philippines) is a Filipino-American cultural critic, writer and queer studies scholar. She is the author of Relocations: Queer Suburban Imaginaries (NYU Press, August 2011), co-editor of the book series Postmillennial Pop (with Henry Jenkins), and co-editor-in-chief of the Journal of Popular Music Studies (with Gustavus Stadler). She is also the events editor for the journal, American Quarterly. In 2019, she won Lambda Literary's Jeanne Córdova Prize for Lesbian/Queer Nonfiction.