Lawrence Ytzhak Braithwaite
Lawrence Ytzhak Braithwaite is the author of the novels Wiggerand Ratz are Nice (PSP) (Alyson)[More Info Here]. He was the recipient of the Canada Council of the Arts writing writing award. Braithwaite’s work has appeared in numerous anthologies including, MAKA: DIASPORIC JUKS, Red Zone (Victoria's street peoples' magazine), Mirage #4/Period[ical], Fernwood’s “Sleeping Dragon” and 14 Hills. He has performed at Lollapalooza, San Francisco's New Langton Arts Gallery, National Black Arts Festival, Kooteny School of Writing and "Prose Acts” with Dennis Cooper and Kevin Killian. Braithwaite's work appears in Of the Flesh: Dangerous New Fiction ed. by Greg Wharton, The Harrington Gay Men's Quarterly, Blue Prints: An Anthology of Black British Columbian Literature and Orature ed. by Wayde Compton. His new unpublished manuscript entitled Heavy Monsters is a collection of previously published and new short fiction. He lives in a fugitive bunker in the Fernwood district of Victoria, BC.
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John Corbett
John Corbett, twenty-seven, divides his time between writing short stories and hustling for food. He enjoys quiet walks with his dog Cleopatra and cyber-stalking author Matthew Fuller. His favorite color is green.
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Wayne Courtois
Wayne Courtois is tickled to death to be part of Velvet Mafia. A resident of Kansas City, Missouri, his work also appears in suspect thoughts and Of the Flesh. He can be reached at waynerman@aol.com
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Jameson Currier
Jameson Currier is the author of the novel, Where the Rainbow Ends and a collection of short stories, Dancing on the Moon. His short fiction can also be found in the anthologies Men on Men, Best American Gay Fiction, Best Gay Erotica, Mammoth Book of Gay Erotica, Making Literature Matter, and Circa 2000, among others.
Snow will appear in Best Gay Erotica 2003.
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Francisco Ibañez-Carrasco
Francisco Ibañez-Carrasco, born in Santiago de Chile, migrated to Vancouver, B.C. in 1985, where he acquired his HIV in 1986, his Canadian citizenship in 1991, his doctorate in Education from Simon Fraser University in 1999, and a long drawn appetite for writing. His short stories "Hockey Night in Canada" and "Chameleon" have appeared in Arts and Understanding and on-line in suspect thoughts: a journal of subversive writing. "Hurt Me, Amor Mio" and "Strictly Professional" have been included in Contra/Diction (Arsenal Pulp Press, 1998) and Best Gay Erotica 2000 (Cleis Press). His first novel Flesh Wounds and Purple Flowers: The Cha-Cha Years was published by Arsenal Pulp Press in 2001.
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M. Christian
M. Christian is the author of over 100 published short stories, his work being found in Friction, Best Lesbian Erotica, Best Gay Erotica, Best American Erotica, Best Transexual Erotica, Best Bisexual Erotica, and many other books and magazines. He's the editor of over seven anthologies, including The Burning Pen, Best S/M Erotica and Rough Stuff 1 & 2 (with Simon Sheppard). A collection of his gay men's erotic short stories, Dirty Words, is available from Alyson Books -- and a collection of his lesbian short stories, Speaking Parts, is coming next year (also from Alyson Books). The only thing he likes better than writing is sex.
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travis jon mader
Travis Jon Mader is a 31-y.o. writer living in Houston, Texas. Over the past ten years he has written fiction, poetry, drama and performance text. Several of his plays have been produced, including his full-length self-portrait in black & white in 1994, under the guidance of playwright Edward Albee, with whom he studied for two years at the University of Houston. In the past two years his fiction and poetry have seen publication in print and online by Duct Tape Press, 3am Magazine, Outsider Ink, Red River Review (Pushcart Prize nomination), Stanford Masque, Suspect Thoughts, *spark-online and Velvet Mafia.
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Marshall Moore
Marshall Moore escaped from North Carolina in 1994 and now leads a happy, stable, and uneventful life in the San Francisco Bay Area, where the humidity is low, the cost of living is high, and his closest living relative is thousands of miles away. He wrote "Enough Oxygen" mostly late at night, under the influence of lots of French disco and red wine. For more information about Marshall, his short fiction and book reviews, and his groovy debut novel THE CONCRETE SKY (appearing fall 2002), please visit his website: www.marshallmoore.com.
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Ian Philips
Ian Philips is a mild-mannered hellion who has the hots for transgressive publishing and certain transgressive publishers. And so, he's hotter than a zit on the devil's ass to be in the premier issue of Velvet Mafia. He's also just given birth to his first demon child: a collection of his fiction entitled See Dick Deconstruct: Literotica for the Satirically Bent (AttaGirl Press). You can throw up your cyberhand and say "hey" to him and visit ianphilips.com.
"Shameless Self-Promotion" will appear in Best Gay Erotica 2003.
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Van Scott
I have had several short stories published (Modern Words, issue 7; something upcoming in the next issue of the Harrington's Gay Men's Fiction Quarterly; a small piece on SpoonFed Amerika.com in its current fiction issue); I am a graduate of New York University (MA, Philosophy); a native to the state of New York & live in Manhattan; I'm Irish/Italian, American.
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Jack Slomovits
Jack Slomovits is a commercial and portrait photographer as well as a graphic and web designer. Maturing sexually during the 80's, in an age of AIDS, Jack's lust for adventure was tempered by his fear and awareness of the disease. He refocused his sexual energy into his art and his camera became his wand of control. Jack's work has been collected by galleries in New York and Los Angeles, and have been published in two photographic anthologies. Visit his website at jackny.com
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Mel Smith
Mel Smith's stories have appeared in In Touch and Indulge magazines and are due to appear in the upcoming print anthologies Best Gay Erotica, Friction: Best Gay Erotica Vol. 5 and Best of Friction and on-line at Peacockblue.
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Duane Williams
Duane Williams lives near Toronto. His fiction has appeared in Queer View Mirror, Contra/Diction and Harrington Gay Men's Literary Quarterly. He is currently at work on a collection of short stories. 'Ready to Ride' is his first overt attempt at erotic fiction.
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