Author Archives: Qu Literary Magazine

LGBTQ+ artist, NEA and MacDowell Fellow, and former Key West Poet Laureate, Flower Conroy’s books include “Snake Breaking Medusa Disorder,” “A Sentimental Hairpin” and “Greenest Grass” (winner of the Blue Lynx Poetry Prize, forthcoming 2022). Her poetry has appeared or is forthcoming in New England Review, American Literary Review, The Yale Review and elsewhere.

Benjamin Zellmer Bellas is a writer and visual artist living in Miami, Florida. A graduate of Bennington Writing Seminars, his work has been featured in Fives (A Companion to Denver Quarterly), The Pinch, Cadillac Cicatrix, and Drain Magazine, amongst others.

Hollie Dugas lives in New Mexico. Her work has been selected to be included in Barrow Street, Reed Magazine, Crab Creek Review, Redivider, Porter House Review, Pembroke, Salamander, Poet Lore, Watershed Review, Mud Season Review, Little Patuxent Review, The Louisville Review, The Penn Review, Chiron Review, Louisiana Literature, and CALYX. Hollie has been nominated for a 2020 Pushcart Prize and for inclusion in Best New Poets 2021. She has also been a finalist twice for the Peseroff Prize at Breakwater Review, Greg Grummer Poetry Prize at Phoebe, Fugue’s Annual Contest, and has received Honorable Mention in Broad River Review. Additionally, “A Woman’s Confession #5,162” was selected as the winner of Western Humanities Review Mountain West Writers’ Contest (2017). Most recently, her poem was selected as winner of the 22nd Annual Lois Cranston Memorial Poetry Prize at CALYX, in addition to, the 2022 Heartwood Poetry Prize. She was also a finalist in the Atlanta Review’s 2022 International Poetry Contest. Currently, she is on the editorial board for Off the Coast.

Mary Buchinger is the author of five collections of poetry, including Virology (Lily Poetry Review Books, 2022), / klaʊdz / (Lily Poetry Review Books, 2021), e i n f ü h l u n g/in feeling (Main Street Rag, 2018), Aerialist (Gold Wake, 2015), and Navigating the Reach (Salmon Poetry, forthcoming, 2023). Her work has appeared in AGNI, Boston Globe, DIAGRAM, Gargoyle, PANK, phoebe, Plume, Salamander, Salt Hill, Seneca Review, Queen Mob’s Teahouse, and elsewhere. She serves on the board of the New England Poetry Club and is professor of English and communication studies at the Massachusetts College of Pharmacy and Health Sciences in Boston. Website: www.marybuchinger.com.

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)