Donald Quist

Donald Quist (he/they) is the author of two essay collections—Harbors (2016), a Foreword INDIES Bronze Winner and International Book Awards finalist, and To Those Bounded (2021)—and a linked story collection, For Other Ghosts (2018), all from Awst Press. His work has appeared in Poets & Writers, AGNI, North American Review, Michigan Quarterly Review, The Rumpus, Hunger Mountain, J Journal, and elsewhere, and was Notable in The Best American Essays. He was a finalist in the 2017 International Book Awards and runner-up for the Howard Frank Mosher Short Fiction Prize. He is assistant professor of creative writing at the University of Missouri. (updated 10/2025)