Bio

Alyssa Quinn (she/they) is the author of the novel Habilis (Dzanc Books, 2022) and the prose chapbook Dante’s Cartography (The Cupboard Pamphlet, 2019). They hold an MFA from Western Washington University and a PhD from the University of Utah. They are currently an Assistant Professor of Creative Writing at Kenyon College.

Selected Publications

Novels

Habilis. Dzanc Books. Sept. 2022.

Chapbooks

Dante’s Cartography. The Cupboard Pamphlet. Oct. 2019.

Periodicals

“La Rosée du Temps.” Denver Quarterly. Dec. 2023.

“Character Sketch for the Oil CEO.” Mid-American Review. Sept. 2023.

“The Guide.” Subnivean. May 2023.

“Last Days of the Bonneville Water Sprite.” Propagule. July 2022.

“Babel.” Psaltery & Lyre. July 2022.

“The Climate Suicides.” Copper Nickel. Mar. 2022.

“The Thing.” Third Coast. July 2021.

“If Birds Left Tracks in the Sky.” The New Thing. Jul. 2021.

“This Too.” Wigleaf. May 2021.

“Life History of a Plastic Bag.” Passages North. Feb. 2021.

“13.1.” Cream City Review. Feb. 2021.

“Cityscape.” Ninth Letter. Jan. 2021.

“What an Abyss Will Open.” The Rupture. Dec. 2020.

“The Shape of Grief.” Phoebe. May 2020.

“Sidewalk to the Moon.” Indiana Review. Feb. 2020.

“Duckrabbit.” Hobart. Jan. 2020.

“Beauty Tips for the Apocalypse.” Gingerbread House. Jan. 2020.

“Transcendence: A Schematic.” Meridian. Jun. 2019.

“The Heart: A Thought Experiment.” Juked. Jun. 2019.

“Creation Myth.” The Pinch. Mar. 2019.

“Mycelium.” Queen Mob’s Teahouse. Nov. 2018.

“No More Dead Women.” Psychopomp Magazine. Nov. 2018.

“The Portrait.” Monkeybicycle. Jul. 2018.

“Galatea, Self-Portrait in Fragments.” Gingerbread House. Mar. 2018.

“Naming the Salt Flats.” Frontier Poetry. Sept. 2018.

“Dictionary of God.” Punctuate Magazine. Mar. 2018.

“A Theory of Chaos and Conception.” Ninth Letter. Dec. 2017.

“Naked.” Brevity. May 2016.

“On Murder.” Sweet: A Literary Confection. May 2016.

Contact

Email: alyssamichellequinn@gmail.com