Author Archives: Qu Literary Magazine

Erika Luckert is a poet, writer, and educator. She is a graduate of Columbia University’s MFA in Poetry, and a recipient of the 92Y Discovery Poetry Prize. Her work has appeared in Denver Quarterly, Indiana Review, CALYX, Tampa Review, The Rumpus, Epiphany, Boston Review, and elsewhere. Originally from Edmonton, Canada, Erika is currently a PhD candidate at the University of Nebraska-Lincoln.

Aaron Sandberg has appeared or is forthcoming in Asimov’s, No Contact, Alien Magazine, The Shore, The Offing, Sporklet, Right Hand Pointing, Halfway Down the Stairs, Crow & Cross Keys, Burningword Journal, Whale Road Review, and elsewhere. A multiple Pushcart and Best of the Net nominee, you can see him—and his poetry posts—on Instagram @aarondsandberg.

Rachel Browning is an attorney, writer, and musician originally from Houston, Texas. Her short fiction has appeared in The Write Launch, New Plains Review, Wraparound South, The Maine Review, and other publications. She lives in Maryland with her twin daughters and is currently working on a novel set in the Gulf Coast of Texas during WWII and the 1950s Polio Epidemic.

Raphael Stigliano is a writer, actor, director, and game designer in the San Diego area. As part of The Space Cadets, Raphael co-created “What Happened to Becky Acorn?”, an online, immersive detective story played entirely in digital environments. He is currently hard at work completing “Murder Gently,” a collaborative storytelling tabletop game. Qu Literary Magazine marks his fiction publishing debut.

Sean Bernard is the author of the novel Studies in the Hereafter and the Juniper-prize winning collection Desert sonorous. Recent work has appeared or is forthcoming in Iowa Review, Copper Nickel, and The Common, and he is the fiction editor for Veliz Books.

Kevin Broccoli is a writer from New England. His plays have been featured in Apricity, Fresh Words, New Plains Review, and Stage It. His play “Falling Rocks” was voted Audience Favorite at Theater Southwest, and his play “Father Michael’s Doing Mass” recently premiered at the Actors Theater of Santa Cruz. He is the author of Security and Combustion. (IG: KBJR0719)

Richard Stimac has a full-length book of poetry Bricolage (Spartan Press), a forth-coming poetry chapbook Of Water and of Stone (Moonstone) and published over thirty poems in Burningword, Clackamas, december, The Examined Life Journal, Faultline, Havik (Third Place 2021 Poetry Contest), Michigan Quarterly Review, Mikrokosmos (Second Place 2022 Poetry Contest; A.E. Stallings, judge), New Plains Review, NOVUS, Penumbra, Salmon Creek Journal, Talon Review, and Wraparound South. He published flash fiction in BarBar, Drunk Monkeys, Flash Fiction Magazine, Half and One, New Feathers, Paperbark, Prometheus Dreaming, Proud to Be (SEMO Press), On the Run, Scribble, Talon Review, The Typescript, and The Wild Word, with one short-listed flash for Sydney Hammond Memorial Short Story anthology (Hawkeye Press). He has also had an informal readings of plays by the St. Louis Writers’ Group and Gulf Coast: Playwright’s Circle, plays published in The AutoEthnographer, Fresh Words and Hive Avenue Literary Journal, and an essay in The Midwest Quarterly. A screenplay of his is in pre-production. He is a poetry reader for Ariel Publishing and Clepsydra.