Featured Contributors
- Featured Contributors
Beth Bachmann is the author of three books, all published by the University of Pittsburgh Press: Temper (2009), Do Not Rise (2015), and CEASE (2018). A recipient of a Guggenheim fellowship in Poetry and VQR's Emily Clark Balch Prize for Poetry, she lives in Nashville and New York City.
Sarah Blackman is the Director of Creative Writing at the Fine Arts Center, an arts-magnet high school in Greenville, South Carolina. She is the author of two books: Mother Box and Other Tales (FC2, 2013), winner of the Ronald Sukenick Innovative Fiction Award; and the novel Hex (FC2, 2016). Her story, "The Little Blue Horses," is part of a collection of ekphrastic prose and takes its title from the 1911 painting by Franz Marc.
Irène Mathieu is a pediatrician and writer, and the author of Grand Marronage (Switchback Books, 2019), orogeny (Trembling Pillow, 2017), and the galaxy of origins (dancing girl, 2014). Winner of the Bob Kaufman Book Prize, the Yemassee Journal Poetry Prize, and Editor's Choice for the Gatewood Prize, her poems have appeared in the American Poetry Review, Narrative Magazine, Boston Review, Southern Humanities Review, Los Angeles Review, Callaloo, TriQuarterly, and elsewhere. Mathieu is on the editorial staff of Muzzle Magazine and the Journal of General Internal Medicine.
Brian Palmer is a Richmond, VA-based journalist whose work has appeared in the New York Times, the Nation, Smithsonian magazine, and on the Root, BuzzFeed, PBS, and Reveal radio. He has received the Peabody Award, National Association of Black Journalists Salute to Excellence Award, and the Online Journalism Award for "Monumental Lies," a 2018 Reveal radio story about public funding for Confederate sites.
Armando Veve is an illustrator working in Philadelphia. His drawings have been recognized by American Illustration, Communication Arts, and Spectrum, and awarded gold medals from the Society of Illustrators. He was named an ADC Young Gun by the One Club for Creativity and selected to the Forbes 2018 30 under 30 list.
Najeebah Al-Ghadban is a designer and collage artist from Kuwait based in New York. Her work has been featured in the New York Times, the Baffler, and the Atlantic magazines.
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.
Francisco Cantú is a writer, translator, and the author of The Line Becomes a River (Riverhead, 2018). A former Fulbright fellow, he has been the recipient of a Pushcart Prize, a Whiting Award, and an Art for Justice fellowship. His writing and translations appear in the New Yorker, Best American Essays 2016, and Harper's, as well as on This American Life. A lifelong resident of the Southwest, he now lives in Tucson, Arizona.
Colin Channer was born in Jamaica and educated there and in New York. His many books include the novella The Girl with the Golden Shoes (Akashic, 2007) and the poetry collection Providential (Akashic, 2016). His writing has appeared, or will appear soon, in the New Yorker, AGNI, Conjunctions, the Harvard Review, Prairie Schooner, and the Common. He received the 2019 Henry Merritt Wriston Fellowship from Brown University, where he teaches in the Department of Literary Arts.
Hudson Christie is an award-winning illustrator based in Toronto. He has worked with the New York Times, the New Yorker, the Atlantic, and others. He has served as a juror for the Canadian National Magazine Awards and teaches illustration at Ontario College of Art and Design University.
A VQR Contributing Editor, Julia Cooke's essays and reporting have appeared in A Public Space, Salon, Tin House, Smithsonian, The Best American Travel Writing 2014, and elsewhere. She is the author of The Other Side of Paradise: Life in the New Cuba (Seal, 2014), and Come Fly the World: The Jet-Age Story of the Women of Pan Am (Houghton Mifflin, forthcoming 2021).
Pamela Erens is the author of the forthcoming Matasha (Ig, 2021), and George Eliot's Middlemarch: Bookmarked (Ig, 2022). Her most recent books are Eleven Hours (Tin...
