Joe De Quattro

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Bio: 

Joe De Quattro is an American fiction writer. He has a new story, "Blue Ache Ark", forthcoming in Chicago Quarterly Review. His short stories have been published widely, most recently in New Letters. Nominated for The Best American Short Stories and a Pushcart Prize. MFA in Fiction from Bennington College.

Publications & Presentations: 

FICTION PUBLICATION

  • "Blue Ache Ark" forthcoming, Chicago Quarterly Review
  • "A Redwood in Wartime" New Letters, Vol. 91, Nos. 1 & 2, 2025
  • "Following Calvino" Italian Americana, Vol. 42, No. 1-2, Summer 2024
  • “The Thief of Oakland Hills” Bayou Magazine, No. 76, 2022
  • “Gift of Youth” The Ganga Review, 2022
  • “A Daphne” Beloit Fiction Journal Vol. 32, March 2019
  • “What Things, These Things, Stir the Heart” Adelaide Literary No. 19, Winter 2018
  • “Still Life With Stalin” Mystery Tribune No. 7, Fall 2018
  • “Swimming in Mercury” Terror House Magazine, July 2018
  • “The Muslim Car” The Los Angeles Review, June 2017
  • “Manhattan: An Interview” Five2One Magazine Issue 13, August 2016
  • “Rubric for Getting Up in the Morning” The Writing Disorder, Summer 2015
  • “Verschränkung” Pennsylvania Literary Journal Vol. 7, No. 2, Summer 2015
  • “Exits” Zahir: A Journal of Speculative Fiction Issue 20, Fall 2009
  • “Something Hard and Bright” Turnrow Magazine Vol. 3, No. 2, 2004    
  • “A Day in the Life of Michael Burns” Carve Magazine Vol. 5, No. 2, 2004        
  • “The Last Cigarette in New York” Carve Magazine Vol. 4, No. 4, 2003  
  • “Sonata” The Carolina Quarterly Vol. 53, No. 2, 2001    
  • “Over in Kew Gardens” The Washington Review Vol. 26, No. 5, 2001    
  • “Angus in Extremis” Oyster Boy Review No. 12, 2000

POETRY PUBLICATION

  • “Leaf’s Folly” Grey Sparrow Journal, Spring 2015
  • “Reading a Poem by Bukowski and Deciding I’m Done with Everything” Pif Magazine, October 2014
  • “Potholes”, “Vitality in Nature”, “Brooklyn, America” Verse-Virtual, September 2014

WRITING AWARD NOMINATIONS

  • The Best American Short Stories, 2023, Nomination, "The Thief of Oakland Hills"
  • Curt Johnson Fiction Award, 2015, Finalist, "What Things, These Things, Stir the Heart"
  • Pushcart Prize, 2001, Nomination, "Angus in Extremis"
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