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Quincy Flowers is a writer whose work explores how cultural fictions shape meaning. He holds a Ph.D. in Literature and Creative Writing from the University of Houston, an M.A. in American Literature from New York University—where he was a New York Times Fellow—and a B.A. in English from Kennesaw State University.

His research centers on eighteenth and nineteenth-century social and epistemic practices that emerged around tea, coffee, and wine, particularly how these rituals structure taste, knowledge, and the imagination. He is currently at work on Pigs Blood, a collection of essays organized by wine-tasting notes, and on a novel about Duke Nelson, the Georgia okra farmer, winemaker, mechanical engineer, and inventor. His philosophical commitments are grounded in fictionalism, understood not as narrative play but as a serious ontological method for imagining solutions when real conditions are not yet available.

Flowers' writing has appeared in Black Renaissance/Renaissance Noire and in Kehinde Wiley: A New Republic (Prestel, 2015), the companion volume to the Brooklyn Museum exhibition. His collaborative performance work with Steffani Jemison, Flight Theater, was presented at the Centre d’art contemporain Genève (2024) and the Museum of Contemporary Art Denver (2025). He has also collaborated with composer and performer Justin Hicks. Flowers is a co-founder of the writing community at Louis Place.

Quincy Flowers

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