Hailed as “heady, euphoric, singular, surprising” by Publishers Weekly, writer Quintan Ana Wikswo is the author of the short story collection The Hope of Floating Has Carried Us This Far (Coffee House Press). Her poetry, fiction, and nonfiction has been published in Tin House, Guernica, Conjunctions, Gulf Coast, Kenyon Review, New American Writing, Witness, Denver Quarterly, Alaska Quarterly Review, and many other magazines. Her work is anthologized in Emergency Index (Ugly Duckling Presse), Queer Disability Anthology (Squares and Rebels), Procession for the Extracted (California College of Arts), and One Blood: The Narrative Influence (Alaska University Press) and Rituals Against Forgetting (Kehler Verlag). She holds major fellowships from Creative Capital, the National Endowment for the Arts, the National Endowment for the Humanities, The Theo Westenberger Foundation, and the Center for Cultural Innovation and residencies including the Pollock Krasner Residency at Yaddo, Montalvo, and The Millay Colony. She is an active participant in NYC reading series including Joe’s Pub, (Le) Poisson Rouge, Dixon Place, Bowery Poetry, St. Marks, and maintains a lively visiting artist practice at NYU, CUNY, Colgate College, California College of Arts, California State University, and others.She has just completed a novel and is working on a memoir. www.quintanwikswo.com
