Raven Mack is an American mongrel mystic poet-philosopher of the Greater Appalachian Unorthodox tradition. Working as a multi-media writer, poet, rapper, and folk artist, born and raised in Southside Virginia, and now residing in the Blue Ridge Mountains in Schuyler, VA, he self-publishes extensively in zine, print, and digital formats to create a labyrinth of concepts, themes, and characters that blend everyday “reality” with the esoteric and the absurd to create a SOUTHERN GOTHICC FUTURISM philosophy and aesthetic. This is combined with creating word-based physical art using wild harvested railroad spikes and old bottles, as magical folk art. He also holds space as emcee of Southern Gothicc Futurist Haiku Slams wherever possible. Also known as Dirtgod, his life’s artistic work has been to heal broken patterns, both inherited and environmental, through therapeutic acts of creation in a multitude of ways.
