Writing, Audio, and Performance.

Nino McQuown is an artist, writer, performer, and podcaster. They write and make art about dirt, apocalypse, death, and bodies. They are the co-host and creator of the podcast Queers at the End of the World, where queer and trans artists, scientists, activists, and scholars (re)imagine apocalypses and utopias, old and new. Find their poems, comics, and essays published with The Kenyon Review Online, Hotel Amerika, Barrelhouse, Cimarron Review, and Rabbit Catastrophe Press. They have a doctorate of philosophy in English, an MFA in poetry, and in all that schooling they never stopped working for farms. They also spent five years learning to build and design urban gardens, so it’s no wonder that they wrote their dissertation about dirt. Find them, often, in their basement, gazing in wonder on their thousands of pet worms.