Michael Silas Carter (he/him)

writer || poet

About

I am a queer poet and prose writer based in Colorado. I write to uncover the wounds that shape us and to understand why we persist, even when we shouldn't.My work lives where tenderness meets brutality. Across poetry and prose, I explore intimacy as both danger and revelation, desire and decay, the convergence of contradictions. Rooted in reality, my writing drifts into the surreal: the psychological, the uncanny, and spaces where reality shifts.I'm currently working on my first novel, which explores familial grief, obsession, estrangement, and the struggle to resolve the unresolvable.When not writing, I spend time with my chosen family, read avidly, explore the Rocky Mountains, and fall down rabbit holes researching random topics.

Published Works

Prose

Mona Lisa is Dying || Prose Online || as Michael Anthony
Get Well Soon || House of Long Shadows

Poetry

Bruise || Harrow House Journal
I'll Move to the Country || Spillwords.com