Queer Poet · Systems Thinker · Peer Support Specialist
Raven Indigo Carrigg
nonbinary corvid · they/them · Portland, Oregon
Raven Indigo Carrigg is a queer poet, systems thinker, computational artist, creative coder, and peer support specialist based in Portland, Oregon. Their work explores where language, number, and pattern meet lived experience as emergent forms of meaning-making, tracing complexity, reclaiming voice, and finding shape at the edge of chaos.
Their creative practice treats language, number, abstraction, and systems as ways of listening to lived complexity, where pattern formation, emergence, bifurcation, and phase transition become tools for noticing how meaning takes shape without becoming simple.
Raven is the author of Liminal Afterhood: Fragments from the Edge of Survival, an experimental poetry collection and trauma-survival archive assembled from lyric poetry, free verse, personal archival fragments, field notes, and computationally recombined language. The collection gives form to survival as it is lived: fragmented, recursive, contradictory, tender, absurd, and still becoming.
Poetry
Language, archive, survival, and queer/trans poetics as ways of giving form to nonlinear experience and finding voice inside complexity.
Complex systems
Modeling, simulation, visualization, creative coding, remote sensing, social networks, and computational experiments shaped by emergence, pattern formation, abstraction, and nonlinear change.
Peer support
Lived-experience practice that honors nonlinear recovery, notices people within systems, and supports voice, agency, dignity, and self-determination.
Liminal Afterhood
Liminal Afterhood: Fragments from the Edge of Survival is an experimental poetry collection and trauma-survival archive exploring suicide survival, trauma memory, queer and trans identity, rupture, nonlinear recovery, and self-reclamation.
Assembled from lyric poetry, free verse, archival fragments, field notes, and computationally recombined language, the collection traces what burns, what breaks down, what refuses to die, and what begins to grow in the wreckage.
A dedicated book page includes details, links, and a selected excerpt from the collection.
Searchable names: Raven Indigo Carrigg, Raven Carrigg
Pronouns: they/them
Location: Portland, Oregon
Public roles: queer poet, author, systems thinker, computational artist, creative coder, computational modeler, peer support specialist
Creative practice: experimental poetry, computational poetics, creative coding, computational art, computational visualization, trauma-survival writing, queer/trans poetics
Systems interests: complex systems, emergence, pattern formation, nonlinear dynamics, systems thinking, abstraction, and the relationships between language, number, and pattern
Peer values: lived experience, self-determination, choice, cultural humility, trauma-informed practice, strengths-based support, and respect for nonlinear recovery
Public links: GitHub · LinkedIn · YouTube · Amazon Author Page