Featured Contributors
- Featured Contributors
Elisabeth Donnelly’s work has appeared in such publications as the New York Times Magazine, the Believer, the Los Angeles Times, the Boston Globe, O Magazine, Vanity Fair, and the Guardian. She has worked as an editor at Flavorwire, and, under the pseudonym Alex Flynn, is the coauthor of the middle-grade book series The Misshapes (Polis).
Jason Florio is a freelance photojournalist who has worked around the globe for publications including the New Yorker, the New York Times, Outside, Libération, and the Times of London. His photography portfolio in the Spring 2013 issue of VQR, “Life on the River Gambia,” was a finalist for a National Magazine Award. This issue marks his fourth time shooting the cover of VQR.
Tracy O’Neill is the author of The Hopeful (Ig, 2015). In 2015, she was named a National Book Foundation 5 Under 35 Honoree, and in 2012 she was awarded the Center for Fiction’s Emerging Writers Fellowship. Her writing has appeared in Granta, Literary Hub, Guernica, Vol. 1 Brooklyn, the Literarian, the Guardian, the San Francisco Chronicle, Grantland, the Millions, the Butter, Bookforum.com, RollingStone.com, NewYorker.com, and TheAtlantic.com.
Michelle Orange is the author, most recently, of This Is Running for Your Life: Essays (FSG, 2013). Her writing has appeared in Harper’s, the Nation, the New York Times, Bookforum, Film Comment, Slate, and other publications. She was born in London, Ontario; her dog, Mercy, was born in Boaz, Alabama. They both currently live in Brooklyn.
Jamie Quatro is the author of the story collection I Want To Show You More (Grove, 2013), a New York Times Notable Book and finalist for the Los Angeles Times Art Seidenbaum Award and National Book Critics Circle John Leonard Prize. Her work has appeared in Tin House, Ploughshares, the Kenyon Review, the New Yorker, McSweeney’s, AGNI, Ecotone, and elsewhere. A second collection and novel are forthcoming from Grove. A contributing editor at Oxford American magazine, she lives in Lookout Mountain, Georgia. [End Page 7]
Oliver Barrett is an award-winning designer and illustrator. His work appears in many contemporary galleries, and he has worked with clients including the Academy Awards, Marvel Studios, the Atlantic, Wired, Nike, and the Special Olympics.
Robert S. Brunk’s work has appeared or is forthcoming in the Iowa Review, the Gettysburg Review, Witness, Chautauqua, and other publications. His Michigan Quarterly Review essay, “A Samuel Beckett Song,” was selected as a notable essay for Best American Essays 2014.
Jen Choi’s work has appeared in Lucky Peach, TheAtlantic.com, and elsewhere. She is currently writing a memoir about her Korean mother’s sudden relocation to the Alaska Panhandle.
Josh Cook’s work has appeared in the Iowa Review, the Millions, the Rumpus, Sugar House Review, the Minneapolis Star-Tribune, and Rain Taxi Review of Books. He teaches at the Loft Literary Center in Minneapolis, Minnesota.
Rita Dove is a former US Poet Laureate (1993–1995) and recipient of the Pulitzer Prize in poetry for her book Thomas and Beulah (Carnegie Mellon, 1986). Her most recent poetry collections are Sonata Mulattica (Norton, 2009) and American Smooth (Norton, 2004), and she is sole editor of The Penguin Anthology of Twentieth-Century American Poetry (2011). Her honors include the 2011 National Medal of Arts. She is Commonwealth Professor of English at the University of Virginia.
Stephen Doyle is the creative director of Doyle Partners. Doyle creates illustrations and constructions for the New Yorker, the New York Times, Wired, and others. He received the AIGA medal in 2014, and received Cooper-Hewitt’s National Design Award for Communication in 2010.
Susan Eisenberg is the author of more than three volumes of poetry, including Blind Spot (Backwaters, 2006), and the nonfiction New York Times Notable Book, We’ll Call You If We Need You (Cornell, 1998). A resident artist/scholar at Brandeis University’s Women’s Studies Research Center, she is the 2016–2017 Twink Frey Visiting Social Activist at the University of Michigan.
Rachel Farrell’s work has appeared in McSweeney’s Internet Tendency, Ninth Letter, the Offing, PANK, and Vestal Review. She holds an MFA from the University of Michigan and currently serves as the...
