Contact M. Mack:
mxmackpoet (at) gmail.com
M. Mack (they/he) is a disabled genderqueer poet, editor, and fiber artist in Virginia. Hir academic background is in gender studies and queer theory, English and poetry, and visual art and photography.
Mack is the author of Theater of Parts (Sundress Publications, 2016) and the chapbooks Mine (Big Lucks Books, 2017), Imaginary Kansas (dancing girl press, 2015), and Traveling (Hyacinth Girl Press, 2015). Theater of Parts investigates the performativity and consciousness of gendered embodiment through page-bound theatrical productions. Signed books can be ordered directly from the author here.
Mack holds an M.F.A. in creative writing from George Mason University, where they have taught in the English Department, Gateway (formerly INTO Mason) and the Honors College. Mack specializes in teaching composition for multilingual and especially international writers.
He has served as managing editor of So to Speak: a feminist journal of language and art and as an assistant editor for Cider Press Review. Mack was a founding co-editor of Gazing Grain Press, an explicitly trans inclusive feminist chapbook press sponsored by Fall for the Book literary festival, which was active from 2012 to 2020.
Imaginary Kansas Chapbook
dancing girl press published my chapbook Imaginary Kansas at the end of 2015. Order a signed copy from Mack here. Cover art by Lane Pearman. Imaginary Kansas is a project that fragments and queers longing. It ruminates on heteronormativity and desire. Imaginary Kansas existed as an artist’s book object made by Melissa Hill in an edition of […]
MINE
MINE (Big Lucks, 2017), a limited edition chapbook of poems collaged from a major cable shopping network. Order here: https://www.biglucks.com/store/mine-m-mack
Theater of Parts
Theater of Parts is the debut full-length collection from M. Mack, now available from Sundress Publications. Order a signed copy from Mack here. Cover design by T.A. Noonan. Theater of Parts investigates dramatic forms through impossible theater, a term coined by Caridad Svich in her collection of Federico García Lorca’s drama, and the impossible body. Mack’s project […]
