Max Parker is a queer writer from the Pacific Northwest currently living in Brooklyn. Max holds an MFA from Stony Brook University, is an associate prose editor at West Trade Review, and reads poetry for Split Lip Magazine.

Max’s work appears in The Palisades Review, West Trade Review, The Brooklyn Rail, Mid Magazine, and The Southampton Review. Their poem “Secrets and Surprises” won the 2022 West Trade Review Prize for Poetry, selected by Kemi Alabi.