Steve Berman
Steve Berman considers the fact that he's obsessed with
ghosts and gay men very telling: Mr. Right may be as
much a figment of the imagination as any apparition.
Steve haunts coffeeshops and old bookstores. His work
has been nominated for awards that some people have heard
of. He's sold bizarre tales to The Big Book of Erotic
Ghost Stories, The Faery Reel, Raging
Horrormones, and
in past issues of Strange Horizons, Suspect
Thoughts,
and Velvet Mafia. His collection, Trysts:
A Triskaidecollection of Queer and Weird Stories has more uncanny fiction.
He lives alone and has not decided if he is scared of
the dark.
Read Derelict
William Dean
William Dean is Associate Editor of Clean Sheets magazine.
He is also Special Features Editor
and monthly columnist for the Erotica
Readers & Writers
Association. His erotic fiction can be found at those sites
as well as Suspect
Thoughts and other
online venues. His work will appear in the
forthcoming antholgies Love
Under Foot and The
Wilder Ones.
Read The Snake Bone Calls
Me Lover
Jim Donadio
Jim Donadio is a graduate of SUNY Albany's English program.
During his tenure there, he had the privilege
of studying under acclaimed author Lydia Davis,
and working with Pulitzer Prize winner William Kennedy
at the New York State Writer's Institute. Born
and raised in Woodstock, NY, Jim has now returned there
to attend SUNY New Paltz, before moving on to obtain
an MFA in Creative Writing. He is currently enrolled
at SUNY Ulster, where he is attempting to found
the school's first-ever literary magazine. Jim is
in the process of writing both his first collection of
short stories, and his first novel. Contact the author
directly at:
Read Hustle
Collin Kelley
Collin Kelley is an award-winning poet, playwright and
journalist from
Atlanta. His debut volume of poetry, "Better To
Travel," was published in
September. His work has appeared in The Pedestal, The
Harrow, Offerings,
SubtleTea, Alternative Arts and Literature and is forthcoming
in two
anthologies. His play, "The Dark Horse," won
the 1994 Deep South Writers
Award and the 1997 Georgia Theatre Award. His interview
with German
filmmaking legend Wim Wenders is forthcoming in MovieMaker magazine. By day,
Kelley is the managing editor for Atlanta Intown magazine.
Visit Collin Kelley online at: http://www.collinkelley.com
Read his Poetry
Matty Lee
Matty Lee lives in Los Angels, CA where he is currently
unemployed. He is still actively seeking publication
and literary representation. For any comments, suggestions
or hate mail please feel free to contact the author directly
at:
Read Paper-Cut Bob
Ian Philips
Ian Philips is a flaming Sodomite and gentleman
Sadist and wicked-witch-about-town. His first collection
of erotic fiction, See Dick Deconstruct: Literotica
for the Satirically Bent (AttaGirl Press), won the first-ever
Lambda Literary Award in the category of Erotica. His
second collection, Satyriasis:
Literotica² (Suspect Thoughts
Press), contains the gem you just read and should curl
the pubic hair of the most straight-laced reader. He
resides in modest infamy in San Francisco—where
else?—with author Greg Wharton.
Visit Ian Philips online at: http://IanPhilips.com
Read an Interview
with Ian Philips & Greg Wharton by Anne Foley
Read an excerpt from Satyriasis
Alexander Renault
Alexander Renault is the pen name for an author who has
published in several genres. He has worked in the mental
health field for fifteen years. His erotic fiction has
appeared online at Mind Caviar, Ophelia's
Muse, Velvet
Mafia, and Scarlet Letters, as well as in the International
Journal of Erotica. Renault's non-fiction has been published
on the websites for the Erotica Authors Association and
the Erotica Readers and Writers Association. He writes
a monthly column at Beefyboyz.com called
Inside Out, which explores challenges facing gay men
in the new millennium.
Visit Alexander Renault online at: http://AlexanderRenault.com
Read Raven
Jim Schutte
Jim
Schutte grew
up outside Portland, Oregon. His short stories have appeared
in The Lavender Network and Velvet Mafia as well as The
Harrow,
which has earned him a 2005 Spectrum Award nomination
for best short fiction. Jim holds a BA in Magazine Journalism
from the University of Oregon. He lives with his partner
in the San Francisco Bay Area where they operate Acorn
Guild Press.
Read Sexual Pixels
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 Jack Slomovits online at: http://JackNY.com
Check Out his Photography
Kai Venice
Kai M. Venice was born and raised in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania,
but escaped to San Francisco, California, as soon as
he was legal, to pursue his dream of being a writer in
more liberal surroundings. Current projects he is working
on include: a dramatic novel, a fantasy trilogy, and
book of short fiction. He has been previously published
in the anthology The Gay Times Book of Short Stories:
The Next Wave and online at
www.iceflow.com/doorknobs/writers/KVENICE.html.
Read Beauty, Love and
Truth in Hell
Greg Wharton
Greg Wharton is the author of the collection Johnny
Was and Other Tall Tales. He is the publisher of Suspect
Thoughts Press and co-coordinator of Project:
QueerLit.
He is also the editor of numerous smutty anthologies
including The
Best of the Best Meat Erotica, The
Big Book of Erotic Ghost Stories, Law of Desire (with Ian
Philips), The Love That Dare Not Speak Its Name, Love
Under Foot (with M. Christian), and Of the Flesh. He
lives in San Francisco with his honey Ian, a cat named
Chloe, and a lot of books.
Visit Greg Wharton online at: http://SuspectThoughtsPress.com
Read an Interview
with Ian Philips & Greg Wharton by Anne Foley
Read an excerpt from Johnny
Was
