Author Archives: Qu Literary Magazine

Allen X. Davis’ recent stories appear in BlazeVox, Ragazine, Tinge Magazine, Gravel, and the Sanctuary anthology from Darkhouse Books.

Jennie Jarvis is an award-winning author and screenwriter. She has appeared in Writer’s Digest Magazine and The Florida Writer, and she teaches writing at Full Sail University. She received her MFA in Creative Writing from Queens University of Charlotte.

Amaris Feland Ketcham is an honorary Kentucky Colonel who occupies her time with open space, white space, CMYK, flash nonfiction, long trails, f-stops, line breaks, and several Adobe programs running simultaneously. Her work has appeared in Creative Nonfiction, the Los Angeles Review, Prairie Schooner, Rattle, and the Utne Reader.

Megan Merchant lives in the tall pines of Prescott, AZ with her husband and two children. She is the author of three full-length poetry collections with Glass Lyre Press: Gravel Ghosts (2016), The Dark’s Humming (2015 Lyrebird Award Winner, 2017), Grief Flowers (2018), four chapbooks, and a children’s book, These Words I Shaped for You (Philomel Books). She was awarded the 2016-2017 COG Literary Award, judged by Juan Felipe Herrera, the 2018 Beullah Rose Poetry Prize, and most recently, second place in the Pablo Neruda Prize for Poetry. She is an Editor at The Comstock Review and you can find her work at meganmerchant.wix.com/poet. 

Julia B. Levine has won numerous awards for her work, including the 2015 Northern California Book Award in Poetry for her latest collection, Small Disasters Seen in Sunlight, (LSU press 2014) as well as the 2003 Tampa Review Prize for her collection, Ask; the 1998 Anhinga Poetry Prize and bronze medal from Foreword magazine for her first collection, Practicing for Heaven, as well as a Neruda Award from Nimrod, and a Discovery/The Nation award. Widely published, her work has been anthologized in America We Call Your Name, The Places That Inhabit Us, The Autumn House Anthology of Contemporary American Poetry, and The Bloomsbury Anthology of Contemporary Jewish American Poetry . She received a PhD in clinical psychology from UC Berkeley, and lives and works in Davis, California.

Karl Plank is the author of A Field, Part Arable (Lithic, 2017) and BOSS: Rewriting Rilke (Red Bird, 2017). His work has appeared in publications such as Beloit Poetry Journal, Notre Dame Review, Zone 3, New Madrid, and Briar Cliff Review, and has been featured on Poetry Daily. A past winner of the Thomas Carter Prize (Shenandoah) and a Pushcart nominee, he is the J.W. Cannon Professor of Religious Studies at Davidson College.

Jenna Swisher wanted to be an Astronaut when she grew up. Instead she got a Bachelor’s degree in Forensics and a job in tech support, because life is funny that way. Her work has been featured in Chatham University’s literary magazine, Minor Bird, as well as Daikaijuzine, The Battered Suitcase, Argot Magazine, and Beyond Imagination. She lives in Pittsburgh with her boyfriend and their five cats. 

Fred D. White’s plays have been published by Heartland Plays, Heuer Publishing Co., and Big Dog Plays. His fiction, poetry, and essays have appeared in many periodicals, including Southwest Review, Pleiades, Rattle, Analog, The Cape Rock, South Carolina Review, and Confrontation. His most recent books are The Writer’s Idea Thesaurus and Writing Flash. A professor of English, emeritus (Santa Clara University,) he lives near Sacramento, CA.