Karina Lickorish Quinn

Karina Lickorish Quinn is a bilingual, Peruvian-British writer raised in the English Midlands, Lima and New York. She has a BA from Oxford University, an MA from UCL and a PhD from Queen Mary University of London. Karina is a lecturer at the University of Leeds where she is the Programme Lead for undergraduate creative writing. Karina’s short fiction features in Un Nuevo Sol, the first major anthology of British-Latinx writers published by Flipped Eye Publishing. Her work has also been published by Wasafiri, The Offing, Asymptote, The Journal of Latina Critical Feminism, and Palabritas. In 2016 she was short-listed for The White Review’s short story prize. 

Her debut novel, THE DUST NEVER SETTLES, was published by Oneworld (UK) in October 2021 and is forthcoming in Spanish as EL POLVO NUNCA SE ASIENTA by Editorial Arde in 2022.

Praise for THE DUST NEVER SETTLES (2021):

'Lickorish Quinn's best sentences are not of the short and declarative kind. Instead, with a stylistic copiousness... they flow through present participles that conjure sights and sounds. [...] In one unfaltering chapter, Julia sees the whole history of Peru, from the arrival of the conquistadors to the insurrection of the Shining Path. In such passages, The Dust Never Settles shows "epochs rubbing together, firing off sparks": strange, and spectacular.' Cal Revely-Calder, Telegraph

'In Karina Lickorish Quinn's Lima, the past is very much part of the present... Quinn's extravagant imagination... gifts us a second strand involving a teenage maid who, having fallen to her death at the casa, returns to earth as a saint of small miracles with a capacity to see swathes of her country's complex history. A heady blend of Isabel Allende and Gabriel Garcia Marquez, in which stories and visions proliferate dizzyingly in all directions, this is an impressive first outing.' Stephanie Cross, Daily Mail