ABOUT

slp, also known as maudlyn monroe, is a poet, songwriter, musician, translator, audiobook narrator, and educator living in Colorado, who can be found vaguely under-promoting their latest studio album or hermetteing with their Smith-Corona typewriter and big feelings.

In 2023, they released the self-engineered folk-punk album greedy pushy needy; in 2024, they released three audiobooks; in 2025, they will release the orchestral indie-folk album Heart-shaped rock. They are also working on translating the works of Cesaria Évora, Jacques Brel, and Édith Piaf.

slp teaches composition, literature, and creative writing at Colorado State University. They write Madness and disability ethnographies with colleague and life witness Dr. Aubry Threlkeld. Their poetry manuscripts have been finalists multiple times for the Ahsahta Sawtooth Prize, as well as the Ashahta, Slope, and Gazing Grains Chapbook Prizes; their hybrid essay “wtf is madness? [My love affair with Bojack Horseman]” was a finalist for the UNLV Black Mountain Witness Literary Awards.

They directed music at Arvada/Trinity Presbyterian Church and are now a collaborative pianist at Namaqua Unitarian Universalist congregation.

Some of the loves of their life have been a dog named Fred and a dog named Monk.