Mick Parsons is the author and publisher of the poetry collection The Call Sign is Jonah (March 2026). He is also the author / publisher of the poetry collections A Treatise on Unseen Stars (2025), Growl & Mud (2024) 92 Tanka (2021) and the limited-run chapbook God’s Tired Plumbers (2020). His publishing imprint is Basement Books.

His work has also been published in a variety of  journals, including Rust Belt Review and Smokelong Quarterly. He’s organized open mics and reading series in the Midwest and the Appalachians and used to run One-Legged Cow Press. He’s been a steamboat fireman, a teacher, a journalist, a dishwasher and worked in factories and warehouses all over the Ohio Valley. His favorite color is blue.