Messy Misfits Club
Volume 5.5 Sex & Exes
Contributors
All of our contributors listed in alphabetical order for Sex and Exes (Vol. 5.5)!
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Mikey Cody Apollo
Featuring "Sinners" "Sul Sul!" "Maybe Two" & "The place between my thighs blossoms"
Mikey (she/they pronounced my-key) Murry, also known as Mikey Cody Apollo, is a Black queer writer, filmmaker, educator, and feminist killjoy from Milwaukee, Wisconsin. Most of their work explores themes such as race, gender, sex, and religion. When Mikey grows up, she wants to be the first Black woman to receive the Academy Award for Best Original Screenplay.
Socks Beebe
Featuring "What You Feel Like" & "Lisa"
Socks (she/they) is a poet and educator from the 'burbs who seems to collect exes like a crow collecting weird little coins. She's been writing erotic poetry since 2020 made everything else seem tame. She has no publications under her current name, the third or fourth one she’s used this decade, but ghosts of her younger selves have appeared in the Luminarts Cultural Review and Natural Bridge, as well as various blogs.
Emily Deadman
Featuring "Crying, in the airpot again"
Sloane Murphy
Featuring "Brue Springsteen Pissing on a Woman at 1:45 am"
Sloane Murphy (she/her) is from Missouri. She writes about butch transsexuals and other assorted perverts. If anyone asks, she just left.
Meadow Orchard
Featuring "How Could You Like That?: A Confession of Consensual Non-Consent"
Meadow (all pronouns) is a lesbian poet living in Chicago. He graduated from The Art Institute of Chicago in 2022 with a degree in creative writing. Her work focuses on love, sex, kink, nature and lived experience. He is a Pisces.
Binx River Perino
Featuring "Seven Ways of Saying Goodbye"
Binx River Perino (he/they) is a queer poet from Texas. He holds a MFA in Creative Writing from Emerson College and is the author of his debut chapbook, “Pure Light” (Bottlecap Press, 2023). His work has appeared in new words {press}, Variant Literature, and elsewhere, and is forthcoming in Beyond Queer Words and Door is a Jar. He is an organizer with the Chicago chapter of the Democratic Socialists of America and is a supporter of the Poets Union.
amber wood
Featuring "beautiful princess disorder."
"[FERAL.]" & "their instagram handle here."
B
Featuring "Boo Bitch" & "Sexual Chemistry"
B (she/her) is your friendly neighborhood (& ethical) pervert from Chicago. Her journey of eroticism has taken her on adventures of self exploration, discovery and empowerment through poetry, modeling, and the co-creation of a creative collective called KinkySexyKool that's centered around BIPOC eroticism with her pervert in crime, Lee Honey.
Ralph Skunkie Davis
Featuring "Soft Tissue Issues"
Ralph Skunkie Davis (they/them) is a sculptor and writer & shape shifter who works collaboratively within queer body modification communities in Chicago, Providence, and Leipzig. With a tattooing & piercing practice that exists parallel to their sculptural practice, they explore self sculpture and create surreal depictions of the fleshy realities of existing in a non normative body.
Connor Gartner
Featuring "Hickey Pen Pals"
Connor Gartner (they/them/theirs) is a Chicago-based poet, textile artist, and painter. Their work often relates to gender identity, the beauty of nature, and art history.
Jae Green
Featuring "Vulgar"
Alissa Nalewajko
Featuring "to my doting wife"
Alissa Nalewajko (she/her) is a poet and writer from Boise, Idaho. Alissa studied poetry at Princeton University and is looking towards MFA programs in the future. She loves to explore the erotic and confessional through persona and ekphrasis and spends all her free time in art museums or by the water.
sunflower quinn
Featuring slime mold study 1
sunflower (they/them/fae/faer) is a queer nonbinary poet, not professionally but they do enjoy it. they love coffee, cats, tattoos, and they have a lot of feelings to share!
Mary Rose
Featuring "Summer Heat"
Mary Rose (she/her) is a lot of things, but also she's just one or two things. She's nutty, she's silly, she's lazy, she's high energy, she's a wild night out, she's whatever she's feeling at the time. She loves writing, though it took her a long time to admit it that. And for a girl that's never been in a committed relationship, she tends to write a lot about heartbreak. She has never taken anything about her life too seriously and she doesn’t expect to start now.