Senior Instructor

About

Biography

slp is is a Madqueer poet, songwriter, musician, and Senior Instructor in Composition, Creative Writing, and Literature at Colorado State University. They received an undergraduate degree in music, world literature, and French at Middlebury College, and an MFA in Poetry from CSU. slp trained in alternative education at Eagle Rock School in Estes Park. slp also spent a decade playing piano for Presbyterians.

slp's research focuses on cross-cultural translation, particularly in English-language Persian ghazals; prosody and the intersection of music and poetry; and identity and comparative/multicultural literature, including Icelandic poetry and saga and autorepresentation in Native American novels. They also focus on trauma-informed, decolonize teaching and workshop practices.

slp can be found vaguely under-promoting their first studio album widow s daughter, recording their next three, or hermette-ing with their Smith-Corona typewriter and their melancholia. They live with a wonderful half-sighted dog named Monk. The love of (t)he(i)r life was a schnauzer named Fred.

They perform under the name maudlyn monroe bc they have so many emotions.

Their self-produced self-engineered album greedy pushy needy will be released fall 2023.

Publications

Poetry:

slp, 2023, Tributaries: We Are the West print anthology from Twenty Bellows, “[50.],” “[51.]”

slp, 2023, manywor(l)ds, “Nautical Erotica”

slp, 2023, Stone of Madness, “Nautical Erotica”

slp, 2023, new words {press}, Postcards 2, 2.5, 3, 13, 14, 15, 19, 20;

from Illogic [what makes grief bearable];

[rattling light of input/there's some larger flock];

[treatment of affliction & necessity that is both affliction of necessity I see tenuous]

slp, 2023, just femme and dandy, “Re: Cocksuckers [re: re: cocksuckers]”, “Club”

slp, 2020, HIVES Research Workshop Buzz-Zine, “[70.],” [72.],” “[73.],” “[77.]"

slp, 2017, Denver Quarterly, “[64./73.],” [72.],” “[36.],” “[37.]," “[54.]”, 64-69.

slp, 2017, Bear Review, “What we say,” 21.

slp, Winter 2016, burndistrict, “[16.]”, burntdistrict.com.

slp, 2015, Gazing Grains Miniature, “Alma Ata” excerpts, Gazing Grains Press.

slp, 2015, Better: Culture & Lit, ghazals “43.”, “46.”, and “32.”, Better Magazine.

Sarah Louise Pieplow, 2014, Jacket2, , “Seeds Sown for John Taggart” (collaboration). sarah louise pieplow, 2008, Denver Syntax "Purpose."

Literary Awards

Finalist, 2016 Ahsahta Press Sawtooth Competition (ms: golem. and yes rabbit)
Finalist, 2014 Better: Culture & Lit Poetry Competition
Finalist, 2013 Grazing Grains Press Chapbook Competition                                             
1st Place, 2013 Academy of American Poets (CSU, poem: ghazal 46.)                               
Finalist, 2012 Ahsahta Press Sawtooth Competition (ms: not so / alonesomeness)
Finalist, 2012 Slope Book Prize (ms: not so / alonesomeness)
Finalist, 2012 Slope Book Prize (ms: golem.)
Finalist, 2012 Ahsahta Press Chapbook Competition (ms: 4)

Creative Nonfiction:

“wtf is Madness anyway? [My love affair with Bojack Horseman” - featured art presentation; CUNY Conference on Neurodiversity, 2023. originally accepted for publication in Tinfoil Hats [Autonomous Press]

Refereed Chapters in Books:

“Poetry as Mad Method for Analyzing Saneism” chapter in Mad Methods with Dr. Aubry Threlkeld, 2024.

“Reinscribing Madness through Poetry: Irrationality and Interdependence in the Wor(l)d” with Dr. Aubry Threlkeld
chapter in A Mad Turn: Anti-methods of Mad Studies. 2023.

Aubry D. Threlkeld and Sarah Louise Pieplow, 2018, "Method to Our Madness: Teaching and Learning Across Mental Disability, In: International Perspectives on Teaching with Disability: Overcoming Obstacles and Enriching Lives (Jeffress, Michael S.), Routledge, pp.172-187.

Music:

Greedy pushy needy – full-length album, to be released November 2023

“Mar é morada de sodade” – single (transl. slp)   to be released 2023

“Have Yourself a Merry Little Christmas” – single (cover)  to be released 2023

“Oyster shells” – single to be released 2024

“Cicada” – single to be released 2024

Heart-shaped rock – full-length album to be released 2024

“Enough enough” – single August 2023

“all I want” – single September 2023

“Free” – single October 2023

Basement tapes & radio songs – EP (unreleased)  2013

Widow’s daughter – full-length album (self-released)  2010

2nd Avenue & Catalpa Way – album 2007

Bizarre Yet Enthralling – EP 2005