ABOUT

slp is Colorado-based poet, songwriter, musician, translator, audiobook narrator, educator, and leader of the “up-tempo emo/lackadaisical punk-folk” project maudlyn monroe. They can be found vaguely under-promoting their latest studio album or hermetteing with their Smith-Corona typewriter and big feelings.

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

PHOTO CREDIT RACHEL GELMIS @whxsper 

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 for the Ashahta Prize, the Slope Prize, and the Gazing Grains Chapbook Prize; 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 collaborative pianist at Namaqua Unitarian Universalist congregation and regular guest artist at Foothills UU.

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