Madison Mae Parker (RSME/T) is a writer, a performer, and a space-maker. Voted as best poet in Kansas City, Missouri in 2022 by The Pitch Magazine, she finds deep belonging in the stretching of language through poetry and questioning where a poem might long to live. Through this exploration of poetics in the material world, she invites desire, curiosity, and play as spiritual practices into her studio. Her previous work has led her to Charlotte Street Foundation as a resident, Mic Check Poetry, serving as President, and Texas Grand Slam Poetry Festival as Director. Having toured and taught internationally with her poetry in Europe, Singapore, and Australia, she feels most at ease while performing and facilitating rituals and conversations around the things that make us human. Alongside SAIC, she recently received an expressive arts therapy certification through the Tamalpa Institute (2023). When she is not art-ing, you can find her watching anime and eating Hot Cheetos with her cats MeowZaki and Magic Conch Shell.