About Me

My name is Joseph Quash, and I’m writer, editor and journalist born in Cambridge and currently reading English Literature with Creative Writing at the University of Leeds. I am set to graduate in summer 2025 and hope to pursue a career as an editor or reporter, having written articles centring on British politics and the economy for the Leeds student newspaper, The Gryphon, between 2023 and 2025 as well as broadcasting News of the Week on the student radio station, LSR. My particular focus was on issues affecting students and young people in the city, though I am excited to widen my journalistic scope to other areas and demographics in a graduate role. In addition, I acted as Assistant Editor for the university creative writing magazine, Tenter Hook, in 2024.

Aside from journalism, I’ve had short fiction and creative nonfiction pieces published in small anthologies such as Trinity College, Cambridge’s The Litmus and Lunch: 2018-2023. I am also currently working on my first major poetry project, a narrative collection of prose poetry entitled well –– assembled. It focuses thematically on the contemporary pastoral, fragmentation of selfhood in young adults, as well as folklore, mythology and dreamscapes.