Author: qgmcm

The University of Mississippi’s Yalobusha Review nominated my lyric essay “Jimmy” (published in YR 39) for the 2024 Best of the Net anthology. 

The Gravel Road, a “groundbreaking agricultural arts magazine built around storytelling,” selected Quincy’s farm-life poems “New Boots” and “In Oklahoma” for their inaugural issue: Autumn…

“Educating the Whole Child in the Hills of Appalachia,” which explores playful innovation at Greenbrier Community School, was featured in the Summer 2024 issue of Greenbrier…

Quincy’s lyric essay “Cicadian Rhythm” has been awarded Honorable Mention in Streetlight Magazine’s 2024 Essay/Memoir Contest. This essay, which serves as a chapter in her hybrid…

Thanks to Yalobusha Review for including my short, elegiac essay “Jimmy” in Issue 39. This piece has never been sure if it’s a prose poem…

During Quincy’s Virginia Center for the Creative Arts residency in March 2024 (which coincided with the Virginia Festival of the Book) she was selected as…

Jean-Francois Suteau, or “The Knife Chef,” was a pleasure to interview. Despite a demanding creative career as Executive Pastry Chef at The Greenbrier Resort, Suteau…

”Getting Well,” an essay excerpted from my hybrid memoir, The Unsustainable Farm, has been published in the Fall/Winter 2024 issue of Common Ground Review. Common…

Thanks to Philly literary pillar Moonstone Arts Center for including my poem “Without You” in their 27th Annual Poetry Ink Anthology, published in January, 2024.

Thanks to the good folks at Steel Toe Books for including “Without Child” on the “Without Child” Shortlisted for 2023 Steel Toe Books Poetry Prize…

The second installment of my interview with novelist and Kentucky State Poet Laureate Silas House was published by Woodshed on 31 August 2023. We discuss dogs, poetry, and a…

Greenbrier Valley Quarterly featured “Work Till the Whippoorwill Sings,” my profile of Jeff and Donna Diehl of Lockbridge Pottery (near Meadow Bridge, West Virginia) in…

The first installment of my interview with novelist and Kentucky State Poet Laureate Silas House was published by Woodshed on 14 July 2023. We discuss…

I was happy to review West Virginia-born poet Kelly McQuain‘s first full-length collection, Scrape the Velvet from Your Antlers, in Still: The Journal in June…

Little Patuxent Review published my truck-love essay “Sunday Drive,” which is part of my hybrid memoir, in Issue 34 (Summer 2023), published on 25 June…

MICA’s artsy literary journal Full Bleed featured my essay “The Enterprising Farmer,” which is part of my hybrid memoir, in their Materials Issue (6), which…

Chautauqua Literary Journal kindly featured my essay “Farming After Death,” which is part of my hybrid memoir, in Issue 20.2 (published in June 2023).

I am grateful to The Dewdrop for publishing my poem “After Portugal” on 26 February 2023.

THAT Literary Review—“the Journal of the Unexpected”—published my short essay “Peeping” as their Creative Nonfiction selection for the month of December 2022.