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Issa Quincy

Issa Quincy is a British writer based in New York City. He grew up in Oxford and studied philosophy and literature. While studying, he worked in theater, writing and directing his own plays in both London and Norwich. He spent several years working as an archivist. His poetry has appeared in The London Magazine and has been anthologized by New Rivers Press. Quincy’s fiction has appeared in Transition Magazine. His debut novel, Absence, is forthcoming from Granta in spring 2025.

Rural Spaces

Fall 2024

Fisherboy

By Issa Quincy

The Kenyon Review · “Fisherboy” by Issa Quincy There they lay beneath the eyes of the all-powerful (and just) God, a human tide, a black mass of putrid flesh, a […]