Featured Contributors
- Featured Contributors
Monika Bulaj is a Polish photojournalist, reporter, and documentary filmmaker based in Italy. Her work has been published in Granta, National Geographic, the New York Times Lens, TIME Lightbox, the Guardian, and elsewhere. Her most recent book is Where Gods Whisper (Contrasto, 2018). Her awards include a Grant in Visual Arts from the European Association for Jewish Culture; a Bruce Chatwin Special Award for Photography; an Aftermath Project Grant; a TEDGlobal Fellowship; and a travel grant from the Pulitzer Center on Crisis Reporting.
Anaïs Duplan is a trans* writer, curator, and artist. He is the author of a forthcoming book of essays, Blackspace: On the Poetics of an Afrofuture (Black Ocean, 2020), a poetry collection, Take This Stallion (Brooklyn Arts, 2016), and a chapbook, Mount Carmel and the Blood of Parnassus (Monster House, 2017). He was a 2017–2019 joint Public Programs Fellow at the Museum of Modern Art and the Studio Museum in Harlem. He is the founding curator for the Center for Afrofuturist Studies.
Carina del Valle Schorske is a writer and translator living in New York City and San Juan, Puerto Rico. Her work has appeared in the New York Times Magazine, Longreads, LitHub, Bookforum, the New Yorker Online, Frieze, and elsewhere. She won Gulf Coast's 2016 Prize for her translations of poetry by Marigloria Palma, and coedited the bilingual anthology Puerto Rico en mi corazón (Anomalous, 2019). She is at work on her first book, a psychogeography of Puerto Rican culture, forthcoming from Riverhead.
Kate Zambreno is author of the collections Screen Tests (Harper, 2019) and Appendix Project (Semiotext(e)/Native Agents, 2019). Her recent writing has appeared in the Paris Review. She teaches at Columbia University and Sarah Lawrence College. Her next book, a novel, Drifts, is forthcoming (Riverhead, 2020). She is at work on a study of Hervé Guibert for Columbia University Press.
Gabrielle Bates lives in Seattle, where she works for Open Books: A Poem Emporium and cohosts the literary podcast The Poet Salon. A recipient of support from the Bread Loaf Writers' Conference and from Hugo House, her poems and poetry comics have appeared in the New Yorker, Poetry, New England Review, Best of the Net, and the Offing, among other venues. She is originally from Birmingham, Alabama.
Lauren Simkin Berke is a Brooklyn-based artist and illustrator who occasionally publishes art books and zines under the name Captain Sears Press. Working primarily in ink on paper, they draw for clients such as the New York Times, the Paris Review, Smithsonian, Simon & Schuster, and Schwartz & Wade Books.
Isabella Ciambotti, a former VQR intern, is a writer and designer in Charlottesville, VA. She was a recipient of the Wagenheim Memorial Scholarship at the University of Virginia, where she studied literary prose.
Tyree Daye is the author of two poetry collections: River Hymns (American Poetry Review, 2017), the APR/Honickman First Book Prize winner, and Cardinal (Copper Canyon, 2020). Daye is a 2017 Ruth Lilly finalist and Cave Canem fellow. Daye's work has been published in Prairie Schooner, the New York Times, and Nashville Review. Daye, the 2019 winner of the Whiting Award in poetry, has also won the 2019 Langston Hughes Palm Beach Poetry Festival Fellowship, the 2019 Diana and Simon Raab Writer-In-Residence at UC Santa Barbara, and was a 2019 Kate Tufts Discovery Award finalist.
Andy Eaton is the author of Sprung Nocturne (Lifeboat, 2016). He is a Hoyns Fellow and MFA candidate at the University of Virginia. His poems appear in or are forthcoming from the Cortland Review, Image Journal, Ploughshares, and the Yale Review.
Ali Fitzgerald is an author and artist. She contributes a monthly comic column to the New Yorker titled America! Her comics have also appeared in the New York Times, the Cut, the Guardian, and McSweeney's Internet Tendency, among others. Her graphic nonfiction book Drawn to Berlin (Fantagraphics, 2018) received the Independent Publisher Book Award for best Graphic Novel/Drawn Book of 2019.
Kate Lacour is an illustrator and clinical art therapist living in New Orleans. She is the creator of the graphic novel Vivisectionary (Fantagraphics, 2019), the reference book Do No Harm (Press Street, 2018), and the...
