L. A. WARMAN
is a poet, performer, and teacher currently based in New York City. Warman is the author of Whore Foods, an erotic novella which received a Lambda Literary Award in 2020. She is the founder of Warman School, a non-accredited and body based learning center. The Warman School has taught over 1000 students online and in person. She teaches topics such as erotics, death, depression, and god. Pitchfork named her piece “ADMSDP” one of the top 100 songs of 2020. She has had performance and installation work in shows at MOCA Cleveland, ICA Philadelphia, Time-Based Art Festival, Poetry Project, and Open Engagement. Warman has presented performative poetics research at Brown University, Hamilton College, Reed College, Hampshire College, and others.

L SCULLY (they/them)
is a trans writer and double Capricorn currently based in the ether. Their debut full-length book, Fuck Me: A Memoir, is available from Gnashing Teeth Publishing as of April 2023 and their poetry collection, self-romancing, is forthcoming from Michelle Tea’s DOPAMINE press in 2025. L’s chapbooks, Like Us and I00 I Love Yous, are available from ELJ Editions and Ethel, respectively. They have recently completed their first bicoastal book tour, and have work appearing internationally in the UK’s WORMS Mag, the Dutch Simulacrum Magazine, and Finnish publication Almanac Press’s Journal of Trans Poetics, among others.

They have been invited to residencies nationally and internationally and have recently participated as an artist in residence at The Dylan Thomas Summer School in Wales, La Barre Artist Residency in France, and The Writer’s Colony at Dairy Hollow, Eureka Springs, Arkansas. As cofounder of Stone of Madness Press, L has sought to create a digital space to uplift queer, trans, and neurodivergent writers.

They earned their MFA in Creative Writing from Lesley University in Cambridge because they needed to take out student loans to pay Boston rent prices. L’s current community project is hosting queer literary events in Boston at [Working Title], a pop-up reading series featuring emergent local queer and trans writers as well as a series of open mics. They used to be a hot girl and are now a rescue dog parent and winter swimmer. If you fall in love with them, please take a business card.

DOPAMINE PRESS
is a queer literary organization that aims to elevate LGBTQI+ writing and writers through publishing, reading series, literary tours, and workshops. We look to nurture and promote queer work that falls outside the mainstream of even LGBTQI+ storytelling: work that is experimental, by writers resisting assimilation; work that stretches the boundaries of what defines ‘queer’ by writers with intersecting identities; work that is raw, by writers who are self-taught. DOPAMINE honors the outlaw heritage of queer artists and looks to writers who are not complacent, complicit, or gentrified, and whose work challenges the status quo through voice, content, or existence.MORE