Author: Qu Literary Magazine

Lizzy 柯 (Ke) Polishan’s poems have recently appeared in or are forthcoming in Gulf Coast Journal, The Notre Dame Review, Prism International, Rhino, and Psaltery & Lyre, among others. The author of A Little Book of Blooms, she is a Pushcart-Prize nominee, and the recipient of the Eleanor B. North Poetry Award. Currently, she reads…

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…

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,…

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…