Spencer Quong is a writer and editor from the Yukon, Canada.

He is currently the business manager for The Paris Review and the criticism editor for The Margins — the literary magazine of the Asian American Writers’ Workshop. His own writing has appeared in The New York Times Book Review, The Paris Review Daily, Poets & Writers Magazine, and Boston Review.

Previously, Spencer was the online editor for Astra Magazine, where he commissioned personal essays, cultural criticism, interviews, and comics for the website. The first two issues of Astra nearly sold out, and work from the magazine earned an O. Henry Award and a spot in the 2023 Best American Essays anthology. The website drew an average of 50,000 visitors each month.

Portrait by Matthew Tristram White