M. Lopes da Silva is a bisexual poet, author, and artist living in Los Angeles. Her comics have appeared in Enchanted Conversation and Mythic Picnic Vol. 5, and her unsettling illustrations appeared in Centipede Press' special edition of Jonathan Carroll's The Land of Laughs. Unnerving Magazine recently published her novella Hooker: a pro-queer, pro-sex work, feminist retrowave pulp thriller about a bisexual sex worker hunting a serial killer in 1980s Los Angeles using hooks as her weapons of choice.