The crux of my creative endeavors hovers somewhere in-between all man-made systems of power & boundary. To establish hierarchical structures is to codify and propagate violence toward the fringe. These arbitrary distinctions say so much toward binaries & hate & capitalism, also. My work investigates and pushes against these long-held, man-made binaries.

m/ryan murphy lives in Los Angeles, CA via Brooklyn & Mississippi. They have a chapbook entitled void of pronouns from Damaged Goods Press (August 2020). Some of their work exists in Bone Bouquet, Entropy, The Felt, Queen Mob’s Teahouse, The Poetry Project Newsletter, Anomaly, Cosmonauts Avenue & No, Dear. The rest explores nonhuman rights, caesurae, queerness, and language’s existence beyond the confines of the page.