Justin Quarry

{{short description|American writer}}

Justin Quarry is an American writer. He is a graduate of the MFA Program in Creative Writing at the University of Virginia, where he was a Henry Hoyns Fellow.{{Cite web|url=http://www.today.com/news/writers-find-inspiration-kerouacs-orlando-home-wbna27236851|title=Writers find inspiration in Kerouac's Orlando home|website=TODAY.com|date=17 October 2008 |accessdate=Apr 11, 2020}} His essays have appeared in The New York Times,{{Cite news|url=https://www.nytimes.com/2021/06/01/style/tiny-modern-love-stories-i-was-right-love-can-never-be-compared.html?fbclid=IwAR2sjzRluLa1XwORZXpFaQavlE2sP3XuAFGU3LlUdOybzG6CILlSbE315_U|title=Tiny Love Stories: 'I Was Right. Love Can Never be Compared.'|newspaper=The New York Times|date=June 2021}} The Guardian,{{Cite web|url=https://www.theguardian.com/inequality/2018/nov/13/coming-out-as-working-class-difficulties-gay|title = Why coming out as working class was harder than coming out as gay| website=TheGuardian.com |date = 13 November 2018}} The New York Daily News,{{Cite web|url=https://www.nydailynews.com/opinion/met-museum-cultural-treasures-behind-velvet-rope-article-1.3997507|title=The Metropolitan Museum's cultural treasures, behind a velvet rope|first=Justin|last=Quarry|website=nydailynews.com|date=20 May 2018 |accessdate=Apr 11, 2020}} Salon,{{cite web|url=https://www.salon.com/writer/justin-quarry|title=Justin Quarry|website=Salon.com|access-date=June 2, 2021}} The Chronicle of Higher Education,{{Cite web|url=https://www.chronicle.com/article/Coming-Out-as-Working-Class/244917|title=Coming Out as Working Class|first=Justin|last=Quarry|date=Oct 25, 2018|accessdate=Apr 11, 2020|via=The Chronicle of Higher Education}} and Longreads.{{Cite web|url=https://longreads.com/author/justinquarry/|title=Justin Quarry|date=26 January 2018 |accessdate=Apr 11, 2020}} His short stories have been published in a number of magazines, including TriQuarterly, The Southern Review,{{Cite web|url=https://thesouthernreview.org/contributors/detail/justin-quarry/2178|title=The Southern Review : Contributors: Justin Quarry|website=thesouthernreview.org|accessdate=Apr 11, 2020}} New England Review,{{Cite web|url=http://www.nereview.com/back-issues/2010-issues/vol-31-no-1/|title=Vol. 31, No. 3 (2010)|website=New England Review|date=3 October 2011 |accessdate=Apr 11, 2020}} Alaska Quarterly Review,{{Cite web|url=https://aqreview.org/aqr_authors/justin-quarry/|title=Justin Quarry|first=Justin|last=Quarry|accessdate=Apr 11, 2020}} Sou'wester, CutBank,{{Cite web|url=http://www.cutbankonline.org/reviews/2009/02/now-available-cutbank-70-winter-2009|title=NOW AVAILABLE: CutBank 70, Winter 2009|website=CutBank Literary Magazine|date=17 February 2009 |accessdate=Apr 11, 2020}} and The Normal School, which awarded him the Normal Prize in Fiction. He is also the recipient of the Robert Olen Butler Short Fiction Prize, a grant from the Elizabeth George Foundation, and an Individual Artist Fellowships from both the Tennessee Arts Commission and the Arkansas Arts Council.

He teaches English and creative writing at Vanderbilt University.{{Cite web|url=https://as.vanderbilt.edu/english/bio/index.php|title=Faculty|website=English Department|accessdate=Apr 11, 2020}}