Those interested in experiments in form and genre should also definitely check out Quenntis Ashby’s “Bear Weds Rabbit: An Ukiyo-e Fable,” in which he reinvents an 18th-century Japanese haiku in the “floating world” (ukiyo-e) genre… While Tadao’s original haiku has nothing of the “floating world” about it, Ashby effectively brings the work into the new genre, by expanding it into a haiku sequence and reimagining it as an ethereal fable. 

Michael Tsang (It’s Only the Beginning: A Review of Afterness, 2017)

Quenntis Ashby [is] a multifaceted performer-writer currently based in Greater Taichung. [He] contributes two unnerving items.

Bradley Winterton (Book review: ThunkBook One (Taipei Times, 2013)

‘The Lake of Swans’ by Quenntis Ashby is, as you might guess, reminiscent of the story of Swan Lake. It’s also no surprise that the author is also a dancer. It is a terrible, brutal tale. The pain of the main character reflects a dancer’s painfully broken body. There is the idealisation of the ballerina character and her objectification. There is pain, fear, torture and death. The powerless woman is then the victim of a bungled rescue. Beauty is a curse and death is a release. There is no happy ending, but there is escape. This is a bleak reflection and reworking of a traditional tale. It is beautifully written and very disturbing.

Anne Stormont (Review, 2011.) 

(into the desert of breaking things without pause for concern) Quenntis – post-apocalyptic prayer and warning message for those haunted and taunted by their casual disregard of our beautiful, wee, blue planet, of its structures – physical, natural, political and economical – i.e a call to all of us. This is reminiscent of P.D.James’s ‘Children of Men’ (I loved that book and the movie) – it’s ‘Children of Men’ on the moon, if you like, and what might come next. Clever and entertaining.  

Anne Stormont (Review, 2010)