Charles Anders
A girl named Charles Anders is moving from San Francisco to Cambridge, MA for nine months starting in mid-August. Charles dresses in women's clothes full-time and is the author of The Lazy Crossdresser <www.lazycrossdresser.tv>. Charles loves tranny chasers, roller skaters and meatloaf. She's also webmistress of godhatesfigs.com, co-publisher of Other Magazine, and host of Writers with Drinks! Another 'Belle' story appears in Best Transgender Erotica.
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Ken Anderson
As a student, Ken Anderson won Louisiana State University's Caffee Medal and the Louisiana College Writers First Place and Grand Prize. A Professor Emeritus of English, he has been a consultant for a fine-arts journal and a gay men's literary quarterly. His fiction and poetry have appeared in over a hundred journals and anthologies, such as Bay Windows, The Gay Review, and The James White Review. Permanent Gardens, his first book of poems, was published by Seabolt Press. The Intense Lover: A Suite of Poems, his second book, is available from STARbooks Press, and his play, Mattie Cushman: A Psychodrama, has been produced twice and aired on cable. His novel, Someone Bought the House on the Island: A Dream Journal, sold out and was a finalist in the Independent Publisher Book Awards. His new book from STARbooks is Hasty Hearts, a collection of ten short stories with a reprint of the novel. Ken has recently finished a screenplay of the novel Someone Bought the House on the Island, as well as another screenplay called The Statue of Pan, and is looking for an agent or producer. "The Bag Boy," an excerpt from the screenplay of Someone, will appear in Best Gay Erotica 2003.
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David Barringer
David Barringer has written stories for Nerve, Epoch, Wisconsin Review, In Posse Review, Cross Connect, The Paumanok Review, Drunken Boat, 3AM Magazine, Sweet Fancy Moses, Tatlin's Tower, and others. He has written a novel and published a book of stories, The Leap & Other Mistakes. He lives in Michigan. Visit him online at davidbarringer.com
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Steve Berman
Steve Berman is a certifiable bibliotaph. A sad mental condition really. He hoards books, rarely even opening them to read. The sight of a full bookshelf brings him a perverse joy. To make matters worse, he's also a writer. His first book, Trysts: A Triskaidecollection of Queer and Weird Stories, was recently nominated for two Spectrum Awards. He lives in New Jersey.
Read Hair Like Fire, Blood Like Silk from Trysts

Viet Dinh
Viet Dinh's previous work has been published in His 2: Brilliant New Fiction by Gay Men (ed. Drake) and Quickies: Short Short Stories on Gay Male Desire (ed. Johnstone). He is currently at work on whatever it is he works on at that time. He is very undisciplined. He most likely needs to be punished.
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M. Christian
M. Christian's stories have appeared in such anthologies as Best American Erotica, Best Gay Erotica, Best Lesbian Erotica, Best Transgendered Erotica, Best Fetish Erotica, Friction, Of The Flesh, and over 150 other books, magazines and websites. He's the editor of over 12 anthologies, including Rough Stuff (with Simon Sheppard), Best S/M Erotica, The Burning Pen, Guilty Pleasures, and many others. His first collection, Dirty Words, was nominated for a Lambda Literary Award -- and his second collection, Speaking Parts, is currently available from Alyson Books. For more info, check out, www.mchristian.com.
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Travis Jon Mader
Travis Jon Mader is a 31-y.o. writer currently living in Galveston, Texas. His work has seen publication in print and on the web by Stanford Masque, University of Houston Virus Board, Velvet Mafia, Outsider Ink, Suspect Thoughts, Duct Tape Press, Red River Review, 3am Magazine, Catalyzer and *spark-online. Visit his website at www.take23.com.
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Marshall Moore
Marshall Moore wants you to know he finally has a publication date for his debut novel The Concrete Sky: May 2003. It was beginning to feel like some sort of literary Loch Ness Monster… even to him, and he wrote the damn thing. If you've been reading Velvet Mafia you already know he's from North Carolina and has tattoos. But you may not know about his short story in the forthcoming anthology Queer Fear 2, for example, or the groovy new boyfriend. For more information, or to e-mail Marshall, please visit his website: www.marshallmoore.com.
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Ian Philips
Ian Philips (Miss Lammy, if you’re nasty) is a kinder and gentler Sadist who looks forward to handling a cat of a thousand points of light on America’s backside. Currently, he is undergoing the change — from homewrecker to homemaker. Later this year he hopes to transition from short-story to novel.

His first collection, See Dick Deconstruct: Literotica for the Satirically Bent, won the first-ever Lambda Literary Award for Erotica. His second collection, Satyriasis: Literotia², will be released by Suspect Thoughts Press in the fall of 2003.

His brand spanking new website is up and already frightening the horses. He has humbly named it www.ianphilips.com.
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Lori Selke
Lori Selke is the editor of Tough Girls (Black Books). More of her fiction can be found in Best SM Erotica, Best Bisexual Erotica 1 and 2, and Best Lesbian Erotica 2002. She lives in San Francisco.
Read The Secret Life of Mr. Clean

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
Check Out his Photography

Duane Williams
Duane Williams lives in Hamilton, Canada. His short fiction has appeared widely in literary anthologies, including Queeries, Quickies, Queer View Mirror I & II, Blithe House, Contra/Diction, Velvet Mafia, Suspect Thoughts, Buttmen 2, Harrington Gay Men's Literary Quarterly and Full Body Contact. He is currently at work on his first collection of short stories.
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