Here is a table of all the authors that were involved with works in Issue two of "Quark" magazine. Along with the authors involved, there is also publications from each author that has been mentioned in the Contributors List of Quark Issue two. Each author listed may also appear in other issues of "Quark."
| Name | Birth | Death | Bio | Titles from this issue |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| JOAN BERNOTT | unfindable | unfindable | American author of short science fiction whose work has appeared in the anthologies Again, Dangerous Visions and Cassandra Rising. | "The Way Home": pages 80-82 |
| JOHN BRUNNER | 1934-09-24 | 1995-08-25 | British author of science fiction novels and stories. | "The Inception Of The Epoch Of Mrs. Bedonebyasyoudid": pages 201-208 |
| ED BRYANT | 1945-08-27 | 2017-02-10 | an American science fiction and horror writer sometimes associated with the Dangerous Visions series of anthologies that bolstered The New Wave. | "Among The Dead": pages 83-95 |
| IRA COHEN | 1935-02-03 | 2011-04-25 | an American poet, publisher, photographer and filmmaker. | Cover Artist |
| THOMAS M. DISCH | 1940-02-02 | 2008-07-04 | was an American science fiction writer and poet. | "Et In Arcada Ego": pages 151-165 |
| SONYA DORMAN | 1924-06-04 | 2005-02-14 | Dorman published around two dozen science fiction short stories between 1961 and 1980, and she was associated with science fiction's "New Wave" of experimental writing. | "Bitching It": pages 137-144 |
| CAROL EMSHWILLER | 1921-04-12 | 2019-02-02 | was an American writer of avant garde short stories and science fiction who has won prizes ranging from the Nebula Award to the Philip K. Dick Award. Ursula K. Le Guin has called her "a major fabulist, a marvelous magical realist, one of the strongest, most complex, most consistently feminist voices in fiction". | "A Possible Episode In The Picaresque Adventures Of Mr. J.H.B. Montrosee:pages 26-34 |
| PHILIP JOSÉ FARMER | 1918-01-26 | 2009-02-25 | an American author known for his science fiction and fantasy novels and short stories. | "The Voice Of The Sonar In My Vermiform": pages 69-79 |
| RUSSELL FITZGERALD | 1932-12-29 | 1978-03-30 | Wrote in Quark Issue 2. | "The Last Supper": pages 97-114 |
| MARILYN HACKER | 1942-11-27 | Present | an American poet, translator and critic. She is Professor of English emerita at the City College of New York. | "Landscape For Insurrection": pages 166-167 |
| JAMES KIELTY | unfindable | unfindable | Wrote in Quark Issue 2. | "The People Of Prashad: pages 169-198 |
| FRITZ LEIBER | 1910-12-24 | 1992-09-05 | an American writer of fantasy, horror, and science fiction. He was also a poet, actor in theater and films, playwright, and chess expert. | "Gold, Black, And Silver": pages 49-58 |
| MAREK OBTULOWICZ | unfindable | unfindable | Wrote in Quark Issue 2. | "Trojak":pages 35-47 |
| ALEXEI PANSHIN | 1940-08-14 | 2022-08-21 | an American writer and science fiction critic. | "Arpad": pages 121-135 |
| ROGER PENNEY | 1939 | Present | a singer, songwriter and multi-instrumentalist. | "Six Drawings": pages 62-68 |
| JAMES SALLIS | 1944-12-21 | Present | an American crime writer who wrote a series of novels featuring the detective character Lew Griffin | "Mensuration": pages 59-61 |
| JOHN SLADEK | 1937-12-15 | 2000-03-10 | was an American science fiction author | "The Interstate": pages 9-25 |
| LELAND STONEY | unfindable | unfindable | Wrote in Quark Issue 2. | "The Village": pages 117-120 |
| LAURENCE YEP | 1948-06-14 | Present | an American writer | "The Electric Neon Mermaid": pages 209-237 |