Milo R. Muise is a trans poet and essayist.
They hold a BA from Hampshire College in creative writing, queer studies, and psychoanalysis and an MFA in creative nonfiction from the University of Idaho. An alum of the Tin House Summer Workshop, winner of the 2021 Newfound Prose Prize and recipient of a 2018 Oregon Literary Fellowship in poetry, their work has appeared in BRINK, Glass: A Journal of Poetry, Hobart, Prelude, Tinderbox, and elsewhere. Their debut chapbook, TL;DR, is out now with Newfound Press.
Milo lives/laughs/loves/etc. in Portland, OR. Currently, they are working on an essay collection about the inscrutable puzzles of transmasculinity, fantasy, and self-mythology.
TL;DR
Out now from Newfound. Find it here!
Chosen by Hanif Abdurraqib as winner of the 2021 Newfound Prose Prize
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Too Long; Didn't Read: In a lively essay of one-liners, transmasculine writer Milo R. Muise examines the pleasures, prohibitions, and pleasurable prohibitions of transition, perspective, intimacy, and the recursive nature of time—like, in a fun way.