Merlin June Mack (they/them) is a hemiplegic writer from Southern California. Their work explores joy, the real in the unreal and other hyper femme adjacent daydreams. Merlin has been published in magazines such as The Lavender Review, All Existing Magazine, and Twin Bird Review. Their work has also been Best of Net nominated. You can find Merlin on Instagram @merlin_june_is_a_lover or reading a book with at least one good literary motif in it. Their name is like the bird not the wizard.
Selected work
- Fiction
3
- Poetry
7
Permit Test
Main Squeeze Magazine, 2025
Exorcisms for Gay Girls
beestung, 2025
Theirs
Troublemaker Firestarter, 2025
Letters for Benjamin Lay
Troublemaker Firestarter, 2025
Mary Shelley
All Existing Literary Magazine, 2024
Cocker Spaniel
Twin Bird Review, 2024
Things I Think About Driving Past The Movie Theater That I First Gained Consciousness In Which Is Now Closed Down and Has Rats
Does It Have Pockets, 2024
A Girl Named Cricket
Lavender Review: Lesbian Poetry & Art, 2023
La Femme Chauve Souris
Main Squeeze Magazine, 2023
Headlines Before The End of The World
Main Squeeze Magazine, 2023