mk zariel {it/its} is a transmasculine neuroqueer poet, theater artist, movement journalist, and insurrectionary anarchist. it is fueled by folk-punk, Emma Goldman, and existential dread. it can be found online at https://https://mkzariel.carrd.co/, creating conflictually queer-anarchic spaces, writing columns for Asymptote and the Anarchist Review of Books, and being mildly feral in the great lakes region. it is kinda gay ngl.

Books
Selected work
- Fiction
2
- Nonfiction
8
- Poetry
51
- Multimedia
8

(dis)locate
remediate lit mag, 2025

song per day playlist
Rock Collections, 2025

Skirting Around - Live Reading
Skirting Around, 2025

unmade
Open Sorcery, 2025

i was a teenage caricature
Fifth Estate, 2025

Ink And Ivy Reading II - excerpts from BOY APPARITION
ink & ivy lit, 2025

specimxn
Mobile Data Mag, 2025

sparkling glitch
Skirting Around, 2025

dinner party
Eurydice Lit, 2025

classmates
Advocates For Youth, 2025

desire&
Open Sorcery, 2025

jade vine: Poet Laureate Of The Queer Body
Sage Cigarettes, 2025

distraction
FSM, 2025

Glitchhood and Identity—Book Review: DISASTERFIRE/DISASTERSTAR
FSM, 2025

on transition
JAKE, 2025

the untamed camera: Trans Liminality, but Unpretentious
Sage Cigarettes, 2025

2024 unwrapped
Dead Pixel Poetry, 2025

grateful
2025

Internet as Self-Portrait
Glaring Examples, 2025

rant for anti-trans legislation
Glaring Examples, 2025

jan 20
Glaring Examples, 2025

no thanks
Coin-Operated Press Zines, 2025

droplets
Chasing The Storm, 2025

sparks
Poetry House Zine: Spirits Edition, 2025

every social feed
Autumn Sky Poetry DAILY, 2025

Revathi And The Dismantling Of Neoliberal Respectability
Asymptote Journal, 2025

boundary boss
Scout Literary Magazine, 2025

honest trans 101
wishful thinking press, 2025

grateful
Midwestern Heat, 2025

The Vulnerable Ferocity of "this book will not save you"
Oyster River Pages, 2025

(doom)scrolls
Feral: A Journal of Poetry and Art, 2025

hymn for neurodivergent becoming
miniMAG, 2024

dragons
Borderline Tales, 2024

relics
The Groke, 2024

phantasm
Vial Of Bones Zine, 2024

What Trans Kids (Like Me) Need To Survive A Trump Presidency
The ManifestStation, 2024

vignettes of the lost
Periwinkle Pelican, 2024

requiem for an election cycle
Periwinkle Pelican, 2024

real questions from organizers
miniMAG, 2024

sparks
Caffeine Rush, 2024

tranphibian / iteration
SMACK Zine, 2024

how to come out
Cosmorama, 2024

off key
The Auvert Magazine, 2024

always right
coalitionworks, 2024

on masking
Powders Press, 2024

Barrelhouse Reviews: Failure to Comply by [sarah] Cavar
Barrelhouse, 2024

return
Culterate, 2024

queer forms
These Writers' Voices, 2024

here and queer
HNDL (Highlighted Neurodivergent/Disabled Life) Magazine, 2024

for them.
The Creekside Magazine, 2024

my notes app hates me
Iceblink Literary Magazine, 2024

uncertain
Nebula Journal, 2024

enables, still
Periwinkle Pelican, 2024

signal to noise
en*gendered, 2024

whispers to you before we met, pride was a riot and we are not, afterthought girl, liminal, on having a life
By the Beach, 2024

straight girl
Communication Madison, 2024

hercules the cat
Coin-Operated Press Zines, 2024

for them.
Morning Star Literary, 2024

Namings
A Rose By Any Other Name, 2024

allism shuts up
The Minerva Press, 2024

compulsory heterosexuality
redrosethorns journal, 2024

Straight Girl, Love Letter, & Ambassador of Homosexuality
MyrtleHaus Magazine, 2024

sometimes all i think about is you
What We Think About When We Think About Love, 2024

protector
Neurodivergent Young Artists Collective, 2024

ambassador of homosexuality
Unfuturing, 2024

where i am now
Free Verse Revolution, 2024

internet lovesong
Querencia Press, 2005

mk zariel interviews kristian williams
Glaring Examples

thoughts&
Glaring Examples