Warren C. Longmire is an queer negro writer, technologist, and educator from the bad part of North Philadelphia. He is the former contributing editor for Apiary Magazine, the host of House Poet: Spoken Word Dance Party and the founder of _mixlit. He is a board member for Blue Stoop. You can find Warren’s work in journals including American Poetry Review, Cartridge Lit, and Prolit Magazine as well as the Best American Poetry 2021 Anthology. His second full length project, Bird/Diz: An Erased History of Bebop (Bunnie Press), was released in November of 2023.