by Lauren Dotson
Lauren Dotson (they/she) is an interdisciplinary performer, poet, collagist, and storyteller currently based in Chicago, but originally from Ypsilanti, Michigan. Lauren creates work that concerns itself with Black temporalities and the tenderness of protection. Through their poems Lauren wants to critically fabulate forehead kisses on the ancestors of their family’s archive. Her previous work can be found in Blacklight Magazine and the upcoming publication of The Common Almanac.