Shanna Germain and Gina Daggett

Earlier this year we were proud to connect with Shanna Germain and Gina Daggett, two of our favorite local writers. They chat about Nervy Girl, Lipstick & Dipstick, the writing life, and coming out of the literary closet.

Shanna Germain’s poems, short stories & essays have been widely published in places like Absinthe Literary Review, McSweeney's, Salon, Best American Erotica, Best Gay Romance, Imbibe, The American Journal of Nursing, Triangulations & more. Editor-in-Chief and co-founder of Nervy Girl, she is currently the editor of Roast magazine. She’s ghost-written numerous books & has received awards such as the C. Hamilton Bailey Fellowship from Literary Arts & a Soapstone residency.

Gina Daggett is an award-winning writer and a regular columnist in CURVE, the nation’s best-selling lesbian magazine. Her alter ego, Lipstick, pens half of the the punchy column Lipstick & Dipstick. Their debut book, the humorous, over-the-top Lipstick & Dipstick’s Essential Guide to Lesbian Relationships recently arrived in bookstores (Alyson Books).