Current Issue | 64.2: Spring
2025
Guest edited by Marcelo Hernandez Castillo, our Spring 2025 Issue: Memory and Migrations features poetry by George Abraham, Aqua Ansong, Victoria Chang, Safia Elhillo, Hermelinda Hernandez Monjaras, and Roberto Tejada; fiction by Savannah Balmir, Beatriz Brenes Mora, and Daria Rose; nonfiction by janan alexandra, Stefani J. Alvarez-Brüggmann, Mary Zhou, and many more.

Read excerpts and full pieces of fiction, essays, and poetry from our Winter 2025 issue.
The Florist
Ditch and Drain
The Ant and the Grasshopper
On Hunger
My Left Hand, Unholy
Blue Skies, Birdsong
Insult
New at MQR Online
Recent web exclusives from the Michigan Quarterly Review.
Meet Our Contributors | Issue 64:2 | SPRING 2025
Unbelonging Where I Belong: An Interview with Monica Youn
The Novel in Circular Streams: Raymond Queneau’s The Skin of Dreams
Cutting the Fat of Pain: An Interview with Jane Wong
Relentless, After All: An Interview with Danika Stegeman
The Lonely Voice and the Public Art of Criticism: A Reflection in Fragments
You Get What You Pay For: An Interview with Morgan Parker
Writing Under Censorship: An Interview with the Pakistani writer Munib Khan
Standing at the edge: An interview with divya victor
Flying Toward Destiny
FALL 2024 Translation special issue
Work from our Fall 2024 Translation Issue.
Excerpts From Skyside
The Dream
Stations in Translation: Power, Eros, and Betrayal (After Gaza)
The Easy Part
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About MQR
Michigan Quarterly Review, founded in 1962, is an interdisciplinary and international literary journal, combining distinctive voices in poetry, fiction, and nonfiction, as well as works in translation. The flagship literary journal of the University of Michigan, our magazine embraces creative urgency and cultural relevance, aiming to challenge conventions and address long-overdue conversations. As we continue to promote an expansive and inclusive vision, we seek work from established and emerging writers with diverse aesthetics and experiences.
