Shane Allison
Shane Allison's Pushcart nominated poems have appeared can
we have our ball back?, Babel, remark, Suspect
Thoughts,
Unlikely Stories and he has work forthcoming in New
Delta Review and Mississippi Review. His chapbook,
Ceiling of Mirrors is out from Cynic Press.
Read his Poetry
Gynocrat
Gynocrat is a young animation writer residing in Austin Texas.
She is currently hard at work on her first
novel, an erotic supernatural horror set
in Japan and has spent the last four years writing 'menslove'
fiction translated for Japanese publishers Biblos and the Kousai
Shobo imprint of
Issuisya.Her home on the web: http://gynocrat.org
Read My Victim
Trebor Healey
Trebor was born in San Francisco, raised in Seattle, and
studied English and American Literature at the University
of California at Berkeley. He spent his twenties in San Francisco,
where he was active in the spoken word scene of the late
80s and early 90s, publishing 5 chapbooks of poetry (Emotional
Hardware, The Queer Love of Comrades, Whitecloud Eating Rain,
Metal-Bending Blessings and The Big Cock Candy Mountain)
and co-editing, with Marci Blackman, the award-winning Beyond
Definition: New Writing from Gay and Lesbian San Francisco
(Manic D Press, 1994). His short stories and poems have been
anthologized in more than twenty collections and his work
has appeared in dozens of journals, quarterlies, zines and
websites (for a full listing see: www.treborhealey.com/publications.htm)
In 1997, Trebor moved to Los Angeles to write his novel,
Through It Came Bright Colors. He currently lives in Los
Angeles where he is busy writing his next two novels.
Visit Trebor Healey online at: http://treborhealey.com/
Read an Interview
with Trebor Healey by Mike McGinty
Read an excerpt from Through It Came Bright Colors
Francisco Ibaņez-Carrasco
Born in Santiago de Chile, migrant to Canada in 1985,
he acquired his HIV in 1986, his Canadian citizenship
in 1991, a Ph.D. in 1999, and a long drawn appetite for
writing. If you 'Google' his name, you'll find that his
short stories and non-fiction have appeared in many gay
erotica printed and on-line collections. His first novel
Flesh Wounds and Purple Flowers: The Cha-Cha Years was
published by Arsenal Pulp Press in 2001. His short stories
collection will be published by Suspect
Thoughts Press
in 2004.
Read Mr. Deluxe and the Mid-Life Crisis of Others
Irwan bin Iskak
Irwan bin Iskak describes himself as a moslem exile/cultural
emissary from Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia. He teaches a drawing
class to a bunch of gay and lesbian senior citizen in Hollywood
after graduated from California Institute of the Arts with
an MFA in Critical/Creative Writing. He now lives in Higland
Park, Los Angeles with five people, a dog name Marco and
a cat name Miette. He still have not succeeded in bringing
any tricks home. He have produced several documentaries on
Gender and Sexuality for the LAUSD Option High School for
GLBTQ and currently are trying his best to quit drinking
during weekdays and hustling on the boulevard for his still-at-large
anthropology project.
He can be reached at:
Read between the ceiling and your skin
Shaun Levin
Shaun Levin’s novella with recipes, Seven Sweet
Things,
has just been published in the UK by Bluechrome. His short
stories appear in anthologies as diverse as Modern South
African Short Stories, Boyfriends from Hell, Best
Gay Erotica 2000 and 2002, and The Slow
Mirror: New Fiction by Jewish Writers, amongst others. He teaches creative writing, and
has edited a chapbook of stories by HIV+ gay men, Four
Seasons in a Day (email him for copies of Four Seasons).
Visit Shaun Levin online at: http://www.sevensweetthings.com
Read an excerpt from Seven Sweet Things
Deb Lewis
Deb R. Lewis earned her M. F. A. in Creative Writing at Columbia
College Chicago, has a B. A. in English Rhetoric from the
University of Illinois (Champaign-Urbana), and holds a Director's
Certificate from the Story Workshop Institute. Her writing
has appeared in Dyversity (UK), International
Drummer, Bad
Attitude, Sleepwalk, BlueLit.com, Sandmutopia
Guardian, PoeticVoices.com,
Little America, Loop Hole, Word Volleys, Fictionary, multiple
issues of Hair Trigger, and has been anthologized in The
Woman-Centered Economy (Third Side Press, Chicago). She's
read in a number of Chicago venues including The Subterranean,
The Hungry Brain, and for broadcast on WCRX (88.1 FM). She
teaches in the Fiction Writing Department at Columbia College
Chicago. She has recently finished a novel and is at work
on another.
Read Mad Hettie
Eric Lunny
Read Machine Love
M. Christian
M. Christian's work can be seen in Best American Erotica,
Best Gay Erotica, Best Lesbian Erotica, Best Transgendered Erotica,
Friction, and over 150 other anthologies, magazines and websites. He's
the editor of over 12 anthologies, including Best S/M Erotica, Love Under
Foot (with Greg Wharton), Bad Boys (with Paul Willis), The Burning Pen,
Guilty Pleasures, and many others. He's the author of four collections,
the Lambda-nominated Dirty Words (gay erotica), Speaking Parts
(lesbian erotica), Filthy (more gay erotica), and The Bachelor Machine
(science fiction erotica). For more information, check out www.mchristian.com.
Read That Sweet Smell
Colin Pink
Colin Pink writes plays and prose fiction. He lives in London.
His stories have appear in various small press magazines
and on
the internet. His plays have been performed in Brighton, New
York City, San Diego and Malibu. His most recent play 'Minotaur'
was
premiered in NYC in April. In June his play 'Touch' will be performed
at the Golden Hills Dramatic Arts Festival in San Diego.
For an interview with Colin about 'Minotaur' go to:
http://www.nytheatre.com/nytheatre/v_pink.htm
And to see a review of 'Minotaur' go to:
http://www.oobr.com/top/volNine/thirtyone/Minotaur.htm
Read Three Things You Need To Know
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
Mel Smith
Mel Smith's stories have appeared in approximately 20 anthologies,
numerous
magazines and on-line at Velvet Mafia and Suspect
Thoughts.
She writes from her
motorhome in the country where she lives with her daughter,
dog and cat. She
is currently working on her first novel.
Read Cocky
