Author Archives: Qu Literary Magazine

Ellen White is a poet, writer, and contemplative arts teacher living in southern Maine. Retired from a career as an information technology manager, she now offers writing workshops and leads retreats that combine meditation, movement, and writing. Ellen holds a Master of Fine Arts degree from Lindenwood University and has been twice nominated for the Pushcart Prize. Suspended, her first collection of poetry was released by Cathexis Northwest Press in May 2023. Visit her website at ellenwhiterook.com.

Courtney Hitson teaches English at the College of the Florida Keys. Her poems have appeared in numerous literary journals including About Place, DMQ Review, Emerge Literary Journal, McNeese Review and others. Outside of writing, she enjoys scuba-diving, freestyle unicycling, and philosophy. Courtney and her husband, Tom (also a poet), reside in Key West, Florida with their two cats.

Caleb Jagoda is a poet, journalist, and MFA candidate at the University of New Hampshire. He is managing editor at Barnstorm Journal and his work has appeared in Polaris Literary Magazine, Write on the DOT, and Down East Magazine. He lives in Dover, New Hampshire.

Jonathan Greenhause’s poetry collection, Cupping Our Palms (Meadowlark Press, 2022), won the 2022 Birdy Poetry Prize, and he’s won the Teignmouth Poetry Festival Open Competition, the Ledbury Poetry Competition, Aesthetica Magazine’s Creative Writing Award in Poetry, and the Telluride Institute’s Fischer Poetry Prize. His poems have appeared in in Barrow Street, The Believer, New York Quarterly, Poetry Ireland Review, The Poetry Society, and Subtropics.

Devon Balwit (she/her) edits for Asimov Press and Asterisk Magazine.

Hollie Dugas lives in New Mexico. Her work has been included in Barrow Street, Reed Magazine, Qu, Redivider, Porter House Review, EPOCH, Salamander, Poet Lore, The Louisville Review, The Penn Review, Breakwater Review, Third Coast, RHINO, Sixth Finch, Gordon Square Review, Phoebe, Broad River Review, and Louisiana Literature.  Additionally, “A Woman’s Confession #5,162” was selected as the winner of Western Humanities Review Mountain West Writers’ Contest (2017). Hollie has been nominated for a Pushcart Prize and for inclusion in Best New Poets. 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.

Midge Hartshorn (he/they) is a poet and astronomer, raised in Idaho. Midge holds a BA from Mount Holyoke College, and is a graduate student at Wesleyan University. His work can be found in Thimble Lit Mag, Tension Literary, Zeniada, and others. Midge was among the 2024 recipients of the Five College Prose & Poetry Prize. They currently live in Western Massachusetts with their family. Midge loves hot coffee, science fiction paperbacks, and hunting for the perfect bagel.

Mary Donnet Johnson (she/her/hers) grew up in Vermont, earned her BA from Sarah Lawrence College, worked for a decade in New York City as a professional actress, and now makes her home in Tennessee and writes plays. She’s had three recent world premieres: “Shanktown,” at Playhouse on the Square in Memphis (2022), “Party of Twelve,” in Murfreesboro, TN (2022), and “To Know You,” in Maryville, TN (2019). She wrote the screenplay for Nashville Rep’s 2020 online holiday show “Twas the Night,” and the documentary film “Give Me a Work” about the life of a nearly forgotten Black hero from Revolutionary War times. In October and November of 2024 Mary had productions of short plays in Texas and Michigan and is currently at work on an answer to eco grief called “Eco Joy to the World” supported in part by a grant from the Puffin Foundation. Please visit www.marydonnetjohnson.com for more information.

Cami Stuckert (they/them) is a Chicago-based playwright, actor, and director. Their works have been featured in several play festivals in the Chicagoland area, and they teach acting at Green Shirt Studio. Their goal as a playwright is to create roles for non-binary actors that humanize and depoliticize this marginalized identity.

Noah Lane Browne is a full-time lawyer, part-time yoga teacher, and some-time gardener. Tomatoes, mostly. His writing focuses on family, memory, and survival. He lives in Washington DC with his wife and cat.