M. Lopes da Silva (he/they/she) is a polyamorous, bisexual, and non-binary trans masc author, artist, and critic from Los Angeles. He writes pulp and poetry, and lectures about the political power of desire. In 2020 Unnerving Magazine published his novella Hooker: a pro-queer, pro-sex work, feminist retrowave pulp thriller about a bisexual sex worker hunting a serial killer through the streets of 1980s Los Angeles using hooks as her weapons of choice. In 2022 Dread Stone Press published his debut novelette What Ate the Angels – a queer vore sludgefest that travels beneath the streets of Los Angeles starring a non-binary ASMR artist and their vore-loving girlfriend – in Split Scream Volume Two. Weirdpunk Books just released his collection of heartbreaking and exquisite queer horror stories, Infinity Mathing at the Shore and Other Disruptions, this March of 2024.