Quaid Harrison Cey

Quaid Cey obtained his bachelor's degree in Liberal Arts and Sciences from University College Maastricht in 2022. A year later, he graduated with Greatest Distinction from the VUB with an MA in Communication Studies and was awarded the Jan Loisen Academic Merit Award. He went on to work in corporate communications for two years before returning to the VUB in 2026 to pursue a second master's degree in Linguistics and Literary Studies, specializing in English Literature.

As a Talent for Research intern on the ‘Global Modernisms' project led by Professors Birgit van Puymbroeck and Cedric van Dijck, he will be collecting historical data on the Prix Italia, an international award for radio, television, and digital productions. He aims to specialize in 20th- and 21st-century queer (Anglophone) literature and is currently writing a master’s thesis comparing the endings of two queer novels in relation to the concept of queer temporality.

Outside his studies, he works as a writer and literary translator from Dutch and Italian to English. From September 2025 to March 2026, he was one of the British National Centre for Writing’s Emerging Literary Translators. In December 2027, his first original publication will appear in The Missouri Review.