Mikey Jones is a southern gay poet & visual artist born in the Blue Ridge Mountains of North Carolina. His work engages queerness, desire, and grief that is laced with textures from the landscapes and ecology of Appalachia.
Mikey is the author of Eulogy of a Rainbow Trout his debut chapbook forthcoming at Finishing Line Press, was a finalist for the James Applewhite Poetry Prize judged by Tyree Daye & the Patricia Cleary Miller Award for Poetry at New Letters Magazine, and has been nominated for Best of the Net & the Monarch Queer Literary Award. His poetry appears in Screen Door Review, Queerlings, Appalachian Review, Susurrus Magazine among others.
Mikey lives in Seattle, Washington working at a queer independent bookstore and is often writing with a cat in their lap, wandering somewhere near water, or reading books that make them cry.
photo by: Katherine Gunning