Author Archives: Qu Literary Magazine

Jessie Zechnowitz Lim is a florist by day and poet by night living on unceded Ohlone land in California. She holds an MA in Art History. Her work has been published or is forthcoming in Mother Mag, The Antigonish Review, The Chestnut Review, California Quarterly, Kestrel, The Berkeley Poetry Review, The Bold Italic, FEED, and others.

Matthew Williams is a teacher and poet from Sacramento, CA. He earned an MFA from NYU and received a Galway Kinnell Memorial Scholarship from The Community of Writers. His poems are forthcoming from or have appeared in Blood Orange Review,The Banyan Review, California Quarterly, No, Dear, Gulf Stream Magazine, the Under Review, Pangyrus, Switchback, Dryland, and as part of The Center for Book Arts Poetry Broadside Reading Series. He currently serves on the Board of Directors for No, Dear and lives with his husband in Brooklyn where he teaches in New York City Public Schools.

Clara Collins lives in Portland, Oregon, where she was born and raised. In June of 2023, she completed her MFA in poetry at The University of Oregon. Her work is concerned with experiences of girl- and womanhood, specifically those often viewed as private, unattractive, or shameful.

Oregonian, Devon Balwit’s work appears has appeared here in Qu as well as in The Worcester Review, The Cincinnati Review, Tampa Review, Sugar House Review, and Rattle among others. Her most recent collection is Spirit Spout [Nixes Mate Books, 2023].

James Engelhardt’s poems have appeared in the North American Review, Sheila-Na-Gig, ACM: Another Chicago Magazine, Terrain.org, Painted Bride Quarterly, Fourth River, and many others. His ecopoetry manifesto is “The Language Habitat,” and his book, Bone Willows, is available from Boreal Books, an imprint of Red Hen Press. He lives in the South Carolina Upstate and is a lecturer in the English Department at Furman University.

Daniel Brennan (he/him) is a queer writer and coffee devotee from New York. His work has been nominated for the Pushcart Prize + Best of the Net, and has appeared in numerous publications, including The Penn Review, Birdcoat Quarterly, Sky Island Journal, and Feral Poetry. He can be found on Twitter and Instagram: @dannyjbrennan

Marisa P. Clark is the author of the forthcoming poetry collection Bird (Unicorn Press, 2024). Her prose and poetry appear in Shenandoah, Cream City Review, Nimrod, Epiphany, Foglifter, Prairie Fire, Rust + Moth, Sundog Lit, Texas Review, and elsewhere. Best American Essays 2011 recognized her creative nonfiction among its Notable Essays. A queer writer, she grew up on the Mississippi Gulf Coast, came out in Atlanta, Georgia, and lives in New Mexico with three parrots, two dogs, and whatever wildlife and strays chance to visit.

A. C. Silva is delighted to make her non-fiction debut in Qu Literary Magazine. Her short stories have appeared in The Bangalore Review, Add to Cart Magazine, and Splash! by Haunted Waters Press. She is currently pursuing her Masters of Fine Arts in Creative Writing at Virginia Tech in Blacksburg, Virginia, where she lives with her loving partner and her cat, Bowling Ball.

Lara Boyle is a writer based in North Carolina. She is an MFA candidate in Creative Nonfiction at The University of North Carolina at Wilmington. Her writing has appeared in HuffPost, Newsweek, Business Insider, The Jerusalem Post, and more. She writes about the intersection of queerness, Disability, and Jewish identity.

Brecht De Poortere was born in Belgium and grew up in Africa. He currently lives in Paris, France. His writing has appeared or is forthcoming in The Hudson Review, Grain, X-R-A-Y, The Baltimore Review and Consequence, amongst others, and has been nominated for Best Small Fictions and Best Microfiction. You can follow him on X (formerly Twitter) @brecht_dp or visit his website www.brechtdepoortere.com.