Marina Avery Robinson is a trans poet and punk from Orlando. Her work centers the trans body as a haunted monument, tracing the pulse of its specters across multiple iterations of a buried self, a living name, and the music and media they first learned to disappear inside of.

 

She is a recent MFA graduate from the University of Pittsburgh. She has received fellowships from Cave Canem, Tin House, Lambda Literary, The Watering Hole, and Community of Writers. Previously, she was the recipient of two Pushcart nominations, the 2023 Porter House Review Editor’s Prize, and second place at the 2024 Envisioning a Just Pittsburgh contest. Her poems (published previously under Avery Robinson and M. Avery Robinson) can be found in Beloit Poetry Journal, Black Warrior Review, Obsidian, Seventh Wave, Hunger Mountain, and others. She is currently at work on her manuscript, Wade Tender: a sprawling, low-country epic poem and graphic novel hybrid, where a We voice can sculpt language into music and other possibilities of light. They flee into the cosmos—a fugitive from the desires of a star-spanning empire who thieves magic from bodies like theirs.

 

When not on Instagram at @magik_dyke or in her home state of Florida, you can find her wherever the music is loudest.