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, pattern, and lived experience meet as emergent forms of meaning-making, tracing complexity, reclaiming voice, and finding shape at the edge of chaos.
Their creative practice treats language and number as neighboring forms of abstraction: symbolic ways of listening to lived complexity, tracing pattern formation, emergence, bifurcation, and phase transition without forcing experience into a single story. Across poems, models, visual systems, and peer practice, that lens becomes a way of giving form to change without flattening it.
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.
Language & meaning
Poetry, archive, survival, metaphor, and queer poetics shaped into symbolic forms that trace nonlinear experience, hold contradiction, reclaim voice, and make meaning from what refuses to become simple.
Complex systems
Modeling, simulation, visualization, creative coding, remote sensing, social networks, and computational experiments shaped by mathematics, emergence, pattern formation, abstraction, and nonlinear change.
Peer support
Lived-experience practice rooted in walking alongside rather than fixing, supporting people through crisis, stigma, transition, and systemic harm while centering dignity, voice and choice, agency, self-determination, and the right to belong without erasure.
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.
Systems and simulations
Raven’s computational work grows from an interdisciplinary background in applied mathematics, complex systems, environmental data analysis, computational modeling, research, documentation, and creative coding.
Projects move through artificial life, cellular automata, terrain visualization, LANDSAT time series, social dynamics, biomechanics, and experiments with language, number, and form.
These projects treat computation as both analytic tool and visual language: a way to notice pattern, trace transformation, and make complex change visible across scales.
Raven's Peer Values
Raven’s peer support values are rooted in lived experience, dignity, voice and choice, harm reduction, cultural humility, and the belief that autonomy and self-determination belong at the center of care.
Their approach centers walking alongside rather than fixing: listening without judgment, treating people’s experiences as real, and supporting people as they reconnect with their own needs, boundaries, inner compass, and sense of agency.
Raven’s peer work is grounded in nonlinear recovery, practical systems navigation, and the belief that no one should have to disappear inside the systems they are trying to survive.
Public 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, lived-experience storytelling
Complex systems and computation: complex systems, emergence, pattern formation, nonlinear dynamics, abstraction, modeling, simulation, visualization, artificial life, cellular automata, remote sensing, terrain visualization, social networks, and the relationships between language, number, and pattern
Peer support values: lived experience, nonlinear recovery, systems navigation, self-determination, voice and choice, dignity, cultural humility, trauma-informed practice, harm reduction, practical support, and care that supports people through crisis, transition, stigma, and systemic harm
Public links: GitHub · LinkedIn · YouTube · Amazon Author Page