Winter 2016

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. The Winter 2016 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 a contributing editor to VQR and the author 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. Her next book, Pure Flame, is forthcoming (FSG, 2021).

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.