"Mississippi, Missing, Miss" is a book-length manuscript of poetry. The poems are a confessional, coming-of-age response to a highly-particularized Southern landscape. They examine that landscape by confrontation of religious hegemony, social hierarchies, and family trauma. The families in this book are meant to serve as specific illustrations of collective tensions, particularly those between social conservatism and the struggle for queer equality. Underneath these various subjects is a larger grappling with the grief of severed belonging. Some poems examine this grief by guiding a child and adolescent through the language and meaning of dance, the voices not unlike an omniscient ballet master. Other poems challenge their own grief through elegies for a first love, a trans man who dies young. Others trace their grief through generational trauma that begins when the speakers' ancestors arrive in Mississippi. The book does not arrive at solutions but, instead, intends to provide attentive space for discomfort. Its speakers' aims are to make sense of tension, of a landscape that somehow allows both unspeakable violence and tenderness.