Christopher Lucas
Chris Lucas grew up in upstate New
York and found himself in the sublime southwest after college,
where he's spent the past decade. He travels to the major
US cities (fun gay spots, really) a few times yearly. He has
written several short stories, two of which appeared in Bar
Stories, and in The Church-Wellesley Review. Currently, Chris
is completing a novel, Walking Wounded. He lives in
Albuquerque with Rob, his partner of 10 years, a Male-Form
photographer.
He can be reached at Jebalucas@yahoo.com
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Sean Meriwether
In addition to his work on Velvet Mafia, Sean is the editor
of Outsider
Ink, the content editor of the gay links resource TheGayMaleBody.com
and half of the Blowsquish.com
design team. His fiction has appeared in Best
Gay Erotica 2001 and 2002,
Of
the Flesh, as well as online in Suspect Thoughts and
other literary venues. Sean lives in New York with his partner,
photographer Jack Slomovits, and their two dogs, Sasha and
Nik Nak. If you are interested in reading his fiction and
erotica, visit his website at seanmeriwether.com.
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Aaron Nielsen
Aaron Nielsen is a twenty-two year
old college student, currently attending San Francisco State
University where he is working towards a BA in English. His
fiction will be appearing in the summer 2002 issue of Outsider
Ink and the 9th issue of suspect
thoughts. Aaron's poetry has appeared in The Chabot
Review and also the UK magazine The Egg Box. He
also interviewed Poppy Z. Brite for the 'zine Serendipity?.
Presently, Aaron is editing his first novel.
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David Pratt
David Pratt has stories in the spring
'02 issues of Blithe
House Quarterly and Lodestar
Quarterly. His work as also appeared in The James White
Review, Harrington Gay Men's Fiction Quarterly,
A&U, Genre, The Chiron Review, Christopher
Street and other periodicals, and in the anthologies Men
Seeking Men (Michael Lassell, ed.) and His3
(Terry Wolverton and Robert Drake, eds.) As a performer he
has appeared in New York City at The Cornelia Street Cafe,
Dixon Place (also upcoming), on WBAI-FM, and at Puppetheque.
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Alexander Renault
Alexander Renault has had a life-long career in the mental
health field. He is living happily ever after in rural Pennsylvania with
his partner and their two dogs. Mr. Renault can be reached at AlexanderRenault@aol.com.
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Van Scott
I live in Manhattan. I work in Manhattan. I'm currently single.
I have a basically uselesss Philosophy degree; I'm working
on a book of short stories. I have a short story in the current
issue of Harrington's Gay Men's Fiction Quarterly (HGMFQ);
I also have stuff up on a website called SpoonFedAmerika.com.
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Mel Smith
Mel Smith's stories have appeared or are due to appear in
In Touch and Indulge magazines, online at Velvet Mafia and
Peacockblue, and in the print anthologies Best
Gay Erotica 2002, Friction
5, Best
of Friction, Full Body Contact, Best
American Erotica 2003, and Best
Women's Erotica. It is not beneath her to send nude pictures
of herself or offer sexual favors to editors. However, since
she writes primarily for gay publications, it has not worked
too well so far.
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Nigel Symon
Nigel Symon lives and works in the
north of England close to the famous Lake District. He is
27 years of age and lives with his partner, Tony and their
dog Francis. Nigel has long studied Ancient Religions and
Mythology and this inevitably influences much of his writing.
His literary influences are diverse ranging from Dion Fortune
to contemporary writers such as Dennis Cooper and JT Leroy.
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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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Hire
Robert X Weaver
Robert X Weaver began publishing short stories in the early
1990s after a brief but painful stint as a male escort. Before
that, he worked as a performance artist under the name "Bobby
Suicide." His fiction has appeared in The Chattahoochee
Review, Christopher Street, Grasslands Review,
The Portable Wall, and others, but he stopped writing
for nearly ten years while fighting depression. "Aroma"
is the first story to be printed after that long drought.
He currently lives in Fort Lauderdale, Florida, and is at
work on a novel.
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James Williams
James Williams is the author of . . . But I Know What
You Want (Greenery Press, fall 2002).
His stories
have
been
published
in Advocate Men, Attitude, Black Sheets, Blue
Food, International
Leatherman, Sandmutopia Guardian, Spectator, and other magazines;
online in Mind Caviar and Suspect
Thoughts; and in anthologies such as Best
American Erotica of 1995, Best
American Erotica of 2001, Best American Erotica
of 2003,
Best
Gay Erotica 2002, Best SM Erotica, Bitch
Goddess, Doing
It for Daddy, My
Biggest O, Rough Stuff 2, and SM
Futures and SM Visions.
He was the subject of profile interviews in Different
Loving,
by Gloria Brame, Will Brame, and Jon Jacobs (Villard), and
Sex: An Oral History, by Harry Maurer (Viking). He lives
in
the San Francisco Bay Area.
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