is a writer and poet from Central Illinois living in southern Illinois by way of Las Vegas, Nevada. Growing up they had a pet cow named Bob – named after an auctioneer at the sale barn. Markley beat up homophobes in high school. They literally once owned a pair of rose-colored glasses but lost them. Markley is a former editor at Red Wedge Magazine. They are a writer and editor at Locust Review, a quarterly irrealist journal of art and literature, and a member of the Locust Arts and Letters Collective (LALC). Their published work includes the serialized novella Sound, the short stories, “Space Goths,” “Memez,” and “Sewerbot,” and the serialized poems of the “Toilet Key Anthology.” They are currently working on the evolving Born Again Labor Museum project with their partner, and fellow LALC member, Adam Turl.