Author Archives: Qu Literary Magazine

Sharon Weightman Hoffmann is a writer based in Atlantic Beach, Florida. Publications include The New York Quarterly, Beloit Poetry Journal, The Banyan Review, Showcase, Alice Walker: Critical Perspectives (Harvard University), and Isle of Flowers (Anhinga Press). Previous awards include fellowships from Atlantic Center for the Arts and Florida’s Division of Cultural Affairs, and two Pushcart Prize nominations.

Blake Auden is a British poet based in Brighton, UK. He is a winner of the Letter Review Prize for Poetry and the Button Poetry Short Form Prize. His has work published or upcoming in The Banyan Review, MONO, The Tomahawk Creek Review, Qu Literary Magazine, The Write Launch, Letter Review, and Cathexis Northwest Press. He has been featured in Forbes, Metro, The Bookseller, The Economic Times, Book Riot, Sussex Life, Coast Magazine and others. His new book, The Gods We Made, is released in November by Thought Catalog Books. Read more at www.blakeauden.com.

Zachary Kluckman is a nationally ranked slam poet with work appearing in print worldwide, including New York Quarterly, New Writing Scotland, Cutthroat, Crab Creek Review, Blue Mountain Review and Arts & Letters. A multi-award winning writer and performer, he was most recently a named Finalist in the Subnivean Poetry Awards, judged by Kazim Ali. His first collection, The Animals in Our Flesh (Red Mountain Press, 2012) won the Red Mountain Press National Poetry Prize.  His new collection, Rearview Funhouse was published by Eyewear Publishing in 2023.

Gabriel Cleveland is a poet with an MFA from the Solstice Creative Writing Program. Along with press founder Joan Cusack Handler, he co-edited Places We Return To, a 20th Anniversary retrospective on the publishing history of CavanKerry Press, where he serves as Director and Managing. An avid video gamer and music lover, he hosts The Andover Special, a weekly internet radio program on HomeGrownRadioNJ.com. Gabriel is also a mental health advocate, often working online to raise awareness, visibility, and money for psychological and psychosocial issues. He has spent several years in the field of caregiving for people with increased physical and/or mental needs and wants you to know that you’re not alone.

Tanya L. Young is a BIPOC writer and visual artist. Her work has been featured in publications such as Salt Hill Journal, Santa Clara Review, New York Quarterly and others. She was the 2022-2023 Poetry Editor for Bellingham Review and is a staff reader at Maine Review. She has also read for publications such as Frontier Poetry and Tupelo Press.

Erica Anderson-Senter writes from Fort Wayne, IN. Her first full length collection of poetry, Midwestern Poet’s Incomplete Guide to Symbolism, was published by EastOver Press in 2021. Her work has also appeared in Midwest Gothic, Dialogist, and One Art. She has her MFA from Bennington College.

Kevin B is a writer and poet from New England. They have been featured in Molecule, Wireworm, Hare’s Paw, Qu, and Barely Seen. They were selected as Featured Poet of 2023 by Natick Arts, and they are the author of “The Front Door.”

Karen Saari’s plays In a Clearing, ‘Rain on Fire, Bad in Bed (A Fairy Tale), Joyland and Mornings with June have received multiple honors. She is a two-time O’Neill NPC and Princess Grace Award semi-finalist and ATHE /Judith Royer Excellence in Playwriting Award finalist. She co-wrote (book and co-lyrics) the musical Ten Days in a Madhouse for Music Theatre of Madison, which premiered in 2022. She was a 2022 Inge Festival New Play Lab Playwright. Her work has been developed with Flint Repertory Theatre, Broad Horizons Theatre Co (NYC), Renaissance Theaterworks, Forward Theater Company and more. Her work has been produced by Magnetic Theatre Company, Flint Rep, Otherworld Theatre, Stray Dog Theatre, Acadiana Repertory Theatre and more. She holds an MFA in playwriting from Augsburg University and is a professor of Communication and Performing Arts at Madison Area Technical College.

Kelsey Tribble is a writer based in Bellingham, Washington. Her one-act play was recently produced in Portland, Maine, and her poetry has appeared in Jeopardy Magazine. She studies and teaches in the English department at Western Washington University and holds a B.A. in Anthropology from the University of California, Berkeley.

An Australian writer of Montenegrin origin, Pavle Radonic has spent nine years living in SE Asia. Previous work has appeared in a range of literary magazines, including Ambit, Big Bridge, Citron Review, New World Writing Quarterly & The Wrath-Bearing Tree.