Author Archives: Qu Literary Magazine

Kristen Field is a queer, non-binary playwright originally from Melbourne, Australia. She earned her MFA in Writing for the Screen and Stage from Northwestern University, and her scripts have been published by Hayden’s Ferry Review, Feels Blind Literary, and Concord Theatricals. Her full-length play, sex/work, was recently a finalist in Playhouse on the Square’s NewWorks@TheWorks Competition and also won the Judith Siegel Pearson Award for Drama in 2024. Kristen is currently teaching at WMU and working as the Drama Editor at Third Coast Magazine.

Mark Scharf is an award-winning American playwright living in Baltimore, MD whose plays have been produced and published widely in the United States and internationally. Mark has served as Playwright-in-Residence for Theatre Virginia’s New Voices Program and taught Playwriting at the University of Mary Washington and Howard Community College. He has presented Playwriting seminars for the National Conservatory of Dramatic Arts, The University of Mary Washington, The University of Virginia, Johns Hopkins University, the Baltimore Playwrights Festival,  and the Maryland Writer’s Alliance. Mark served three terms as Chairman of the Baltimore Playwrights Festival. He has an MFA in Playwriting from the University of Virginia and is a member of the Dramatists Guild.

Grace Willcox is a writer and graduate of Mills College with her BA in English. She now lives in Portland, Maine, and her work has been seen in PHEMME Zine, Chaleur Magazine, Elementia, and Phoenix. She loves to write about complex relationships, different forms of love, and obsession.

Emma Golden is a New York City-based writer and teacher. She has an MFA in creative nonfiction from Columbia University, and her essays and criticism have appeared in Literary Hub and Qu. She teaches writing at Hunter College-CUNY and Stevens Institute of Technology.

Katie Harms received her MFA in Creative Writing from Ohio State University. She was shortlisted for The Malahat Review‘s 2024 Open Season Award, Writer’s Digest‘s 93rd Annual Writing Competition, and the 2024 Novel Slices Contest. Her work can be found in Action, Spectacle and Creation Magazine and is forthcoming in Every Day Fiction and The Other Journal. 

Josiah Nelson holds an MFA from the University of Saskatchewan, where he teaches creative writing. His work has appeared (or is forthcoming) in Contemporary Verse 2, Grain, Hunger Mountain, Queen’s Quarterly, QWERTY, The Rumpus, Sonora Review, and South Dakota Review. He lives in Saskatoon.

Michael Brosnan is a poet and writer based in Exeter, New Hampshire. His most recent collection of poetry, Emu Blis, Bums Lie, Blue-ism, a finalist for the Wandering Aengus Book Award, was published in early 2024 by Broadstone Books. He is the author of two previous collections — The Sovereignty of the Accidental (2018) and Adrift (2023). His poetry has appeared in numerous literary journals and has won awards from various arts organizations, including the New Hampshire State Council on the Arts. In 2023, he was nominated for a Pushcart Prize. He is also the author of Against the Current, a book on inner-city education, and writes often on issues related to school and learning. More at www.michaelabrosnan.com

GR Collins is a writer from Milwaukee who has held jobs as brick mason, farmhand, middle school teacher, prep cook, and currently works in biotech. His fiction and poetry have appeared in Whitefish Review, Interim, Red Flag, Hive Avenue, Red Rock Review, Flint Hills, and others.

Brian Builta lives in Arlington, Texas, and works at Texas Wesleyan University in Fort Worth. His work has been published in North of Oxford, Hole in the Head Review, South Florida Poetry Journal, New Ohio Review, TriQuarterly and 2River View among others.

Amanda Dettmann is a queer poet, performer, and educator who is the author of Untranslatable Honeyed Bruises. She earned her MFA in Poetry from New York University where she taught undergraduates and has received support from the Kenyon Review Writers Workshops and the Juniper Summer Writing Institute. Dettmann was one of two finalists for the 2022 Action, Spectacle contest judged by Mary Jo Bang, as well as the winner of the 2023 Peseroff Prize in Poetry selected by Jake Skeets. Her work has been nominated for a Pushcart Prize by The Emerson Review and has appeared in FENCE, The Oakland Review, Portland Review, The Adroit Journal, Stanford’s Poetry Journal Mantis, and The National Poetry Quarterly, among others.