Author Archives: Qu Literary Magazine

Tanya L. Young is a BIPOC writer and visual artist. Her work has been featured in publications such as Salt Hill Journal, Santa Clara Review, New York Quarterly and others. She was the 2022-2023 Poetry Editor for Bellingham Review and is a staff reader at Maine Review. She has also read for publications such as Frontier Poetry and Tupelo Press.

Erica Anderson-Senter writes from Fort Wayne, IN. Her first full length collection of poetry, Midwestern Poet’s Incomplete Guide to Symbolism, was published by EastOver Press in 2021. Her work has also appeared in Midwest Gothic, Dialogist, and One Art. She has her MFA from Bennington College.

Kevin B is a writer and poet from New England. They have been featured in Molecule, Wireworm, Hare’s Paw, Qu, and Barely Seen. They were selected as Featured Poet of 2023 by Natick Arts, and they are the author of “The Front Door.”

Karen Saari’s plays In a Clearing, ‘Rain on Fire, Bad in Bed (A Fairy Tale), Joyland and Mornings with June have received multiple honors. She is a two-time O’Neill NPC and Princess Grace Award semi-finalist and ATHE /Judith Royer Excellence in Playwriting Award finalist. She co-wrote (book and co-lyrics) the musical Ten Days in a Madhouse for Music Theatre of Madison, which premiered in 2022. She was a 2022 Inge Festival New Play Lab Playwright. Her work has been developed with Flint Repertory Theatre, Broad Horizons Theatre Co (NYC), Renaissance Theaterworks, Forward Theater Company and more. Her work has been produced by Magnetic Theatre Company, Flint Rep, Otherworld Theatre, Stray Dog Theatre, Acadiana Repertory Theatre and more. She holds an MFA in playwriting from Augsburg University and is a professor of Communication and Performing Arts at Madison Area Technical College.

Kelsey Tribble is a writer based in Bellingham, Washington. Her one-act play was recently produced in Portland, Maine, and her poetry has appeared in Jeopardy Magazine. She studies and teaches in the English department at Western Washington University and holds a B.A. in Anthropology from the University of California, Berkeley.

An Australian writer of Montenegrin origin, Pavle Radonic has spent nine years living in SE Asia. Previous work has appeared in a range of literary magazines, including Ambit, Big Bridge, Citron Review, New World Writing Quarterly & The Wrath-Bearing Tree.

Michael Brooks received his MFA from Pacific University and teaches writing classes at Hope College. His work has appeared in Redivider, EcoTheo Review, Wayne Literary Review, and The Windhover.

Jacob Dimpsey is a writer living in Central Pennsylvania. His work has previously appeared in The SFWP Quarterly and Blood Pudding, among others.

Fred Leebron has published novels, stories and essays.  He has also co-edited anthologies and co-authored a textbook.  His most recent book is “The News Said it Was,” and he directs the MFA program at Queens University of Charlotte.