Merrick Sloane (they/them) is a Queer, neurodivergent 90’s kid and nonbinary poet from OKC who’s a sucker for expletives and second languages. Their chapbook, Queerly Beloved, was self-published in 2020. Their work has appeared in the first and only gender and sexuality journal in Oklahoma, The Central Dissent, and in Stories for the Road: Trauma and Internal Communication. Merrick was a 2020 and 2021 DreamYard Rad(ical) Poetry Consortium fellow. Currently, Merrick is pursuing their MFA at the University of Tennessee, Knoxville where they serve as the Poetry Editor of Grist, and as the host of the creative writing department's reading series and open mic, Chiasmus. Merrick writes so that others may feel radically loved. You can find them @ontherunsince91 or @ontherunsince91_2.0 on Instagram.