Author: Qu Literary Magazine

  • Daniel Lusk

    Daniel Lusk is author of eight poetry collections and other books, most recently Every Slow Thing, poems (Kelsay Books 2022), and Farthings eBook (Yavanika Press 2022). Among the work published in literary journals, his genre-bending essay “Bomb” (New Letters), was awarded a Pushcart Prize. Native of the prairie Midwest and former commentator on small press…

  • Carla Schick

    Carla Schick is a queer nonbinary activist who grew up poor with a love of language that fed their imagination. Along with language and poetry, they discovered jazz as a way to bring rhythm and spirit into language. Their works can be found in the anthologies Colossus: Body, Moonstone Press: Which Side Are You On,…

  • Susan Cronin

    Susan Cronin earned an MFA in poetry from the New School and has participated in the Juniper Summer Writing Institute and the Community of Writers Poetry Program. Her poems are forthcoming or have appeared in journals such as Pine Hills Review, Crow & Cross Keys, Tinderbox Poetry Journal, Nashville Review, LIGEIA, and Southwest Review (2022 Elizabeth Matchett Stover Award).

  • Khris Baxter

    Khris Baxter is a screenwriter, producer, and the founder of Lost Mountain Entertainment. He teaches Writing for Film and TV at Dickinson College and is core faculty of the MFA Program at Queens University of Charlotte.

  • Watching Drew Die

    You stay in the room with him the whole time. You only leave once to pee, and you let yourself linger, praying it’ll all be over by the time you get back. But, of course, it isn’t; it won’t be over for hours. Sometimes you’re alone with him. Most of the time, your father and…

  • Zaftig

    Your mother used to call you zaftig. Yiddish for: a full figured woman. Used mostly for women, though occasionally for men if they are a little chubby. You had long, beautiful brown wavy locks. Gorgeous hair, the women used to say, in their nasally Long Island Italian accents. Hairdressers would pose you for pictures like…

  • Cratylus’ Pinky in 2022

    What does it mean to be lying on my bed and feel nothing belongs to me? The world is…—   Detached? / / Simulacrum??   —have we finally reached the place where the movie I’m watching is more real than reality? The irony: the movie   is The General, from 1926—the movie is silent, is…

  • Cratylus’ Pinky in 2022

    What does it mean to be lying on my bed and feel nothing belongs to me? The world is…—   Detached? / / Simulacrum??   —have we finally reached the place where the movie I’m watching is more real than reality? The irony: the movie   is The General, from 1926—the movie is silent, is…

  • Nightly News, 1972

    My family forked mashed potatoes, peas, and Salisbury steak from Swanson’s TV dinners served on TV trays as a reporter’s urgent voice narrated poorly filmed scenes: green blur of jungle, young men toting guns and ammo, helmets heavy. I read comics as I ate: Batman, Richie Rich, Sad Sack. What did Vietnam have to do…