Quincy Flowers

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Quincy Flowers is a writer who treats fiction as a necessary framework for social life. His work explores how imagined constructs—such as family, nations, currencies, and identities—anchor meaning and structure experience. 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 shape taste, knowledge, and imagination. He is currently at work on a collection of essays organized around wine-tasting notes, as well as a novel about Duke Nelson, the Georgia okra farmer, winemaker, mechanical engineer, and inventor.

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 and is a co-founder of the writing community at Louis Place. Through these projects, he continues to explore how fiction, performance, and community practices focus attention and fashion meaningful lives.