About

Domi J Shoemaker is an Idaho-born gender flexer who founded the quarterly reading series, Burnt Tongue, after cutting teeth in Tom Spanbauer’s Dangerous Writers workshop. While finishing an MFA in Writing from Pacific University in 2015, Lidia asked Domi to help create the Corporeal Writing Seasonal Workshop Series. With a resounding yes, Domi spent 11 years as a Corporeal Writing Seasonal Lab facilitator, with a smattering of other teaching collaborations, and is now the director of Symbiose Virtual Writing Hours.

Domi has published at [PANK], Nailed Magazine, Unshod Quills, Gobshite Quarterly, and has a story in the anthology, The Night and The Rain and The River, from Forest Avenue Press. Domi has worked with Lidia Yuknavitch launching Dora: A Headcase, interned at Chiasmus Media, and was featured in the literary radio theatre podcast, Storytellers Telling Stories. Domi can be found as Chapter 8 of Misfits Manifesto.

Domi is available for 1:1 coaching. guiding, excavating. Contact them through this website or directly at domishoemaker@protonmail.com

To read some of Domi's work, check out their publications here