Mark Apoapsis
Mark Apoapsis based his pen name on that of a famous American writer, and updated it from riverboat to orbital navigation. Some of his stories appear in various places online. "Thresholds" has been published in the anthology Lovers Who Stay With You and "Virtually Helpless" is slated to appear in the forthcoming anthology Men on the Edge.
Visit Mark Apoapsis online at: http://Mark.Apoapsis.wants.to/write
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Steve Berman
Steve Berman dislikes being captured in 50 words or less. But since he's had a lot of stories and articles published, he's resigned to writing bios. Rather than mention old books, he'd prefer to look forward at the upcoming Best Gay Erotica 2005, Best Gay Love Stories 2005, Bi Guys, Men of Mystery, Skin & Ink, all of which have stories with his blend of eerie and erotic. He's considering spending all his writing pennies on hiring a sexy guy to have a date with. Applicants please be skilled in the usage of bubble bath.
Visit Steve Berman online at: steveberman.com
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Drew Gummerson
Drew Gummerson is 33 and lives in Leicester, England. In 2002 his first novel The Lodger was published. It was a finalist in the Lambda Awards in the States. Drew's short fiction has been published in Death Comes Easy; The Gay Times Book of Short Stories 4, Serendipity: The Gay Times Book of New Writing, Best Gay Erotica 2005 (Cleis Press), Aesthetica Magazine, The Gay Read, This Is It Magazine, Open Wide Magazine, Pulp.net, Blithe House Quarterly, Megaera, Zygote In My Coffee, LauraHird.com and Forbidden Fruit Magazine. Drew is currently working with Zuluspice to turn a number of his short stories into short films.
Visit Drew Gummerson online at: http://freespace.virgin.net/d.gummerson
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Trebor Healey
Trebor Healey is the author of Through It Came Bright Colors, which received the 2004 Ferro-Grumley Award. His erotic fiction has been anthologized in Law of Desire, Fratsex, M2M, Quickies 3, Best Gay Erotica 2003 and 2004, Out of Control, and Pills, Thrills, Chills and Heartache, as well as online at Ashé! and Velvet Mafia. Trebor lives in Los Angeles.
Visit Trebor Healey online at: http://www.treborhealey.com.
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Ryan Kamstra
Ryan (sCRATCH) Kamstra is a poet/songwriter based in Toronto. He has recorded an album aLL fALL dOWN (2001 Groundfloor Symphony) and published a book of poetry lATE cAPITALIST sUBLIME (2002 Insomniac Press). His new album i WANT aN aRMY (2004 Groundfloor Symphony) will be launched Nov. 17, 2004, in Toronto. His short fiction has been published variously, including here, Suspect Thoughts, Smut magazine, Problem Child, Scarlet Letter, the anthology Everything I Have is Blue: Working Class Fiction of More or Less Gay Life (Suspect Thoughts, upcoming 2005) and he is slowly cobbling together a collection of it under the working title: pORNOGRAPHY.
Visit Ryan Kamstra online at: ryankamstra.com
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Marc Levy
My work has appeared in various online and print publications, most recently in New Millennium Writing. It is forthcoming in Bi Guys: Firsthand Fiction for Bisexual Men, edited by Ron Suresha, Haworth Press. The Real Deal, a video of my war related prose and photographs is distributed by The Cinema Guild.
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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 webdesign team. His work has or will be published in the second installment of Best of Best Gay Erotica, Law of Desire, as well as online in Lodestar Quarterly and 3AM Magazine. If you are interested in reading more of his work, stalk him online @ seanmeriwether.com.
Read the Interview with Sean Meriwether by Jameson Currier
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Marshall Moore
Marshall Moore is the author of the novel The Concrete Sky (Haworth Press, 2003) and the short fiction collection Black Shapes in a Darkened Room (Suspect Thoughts Press, 2004). He is a North Carolina native who has lived in the Washington DC, San Francisco, Portland, and, most recently, Seattle metro areas. For more information about him, please check out his website: www.marshallmoore.com.
Read the Interview with Marshall Moore by Mike McGinty
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Ian Philips
Ian Philips is the author of two collections of literotica: Satyriasis and the Lambda Literary Award–winning See Dick Deconstruct. He is also the co-editor (with Greg Wharton) of two multi-author anthologies: I Do/I Don’t: Queers on Marriage and Law of Desire: Tales of Gay Male Lust and Obsession. On February 19, 2004, he married heartthrob author-publisher Greg Wharton in San Francisco’s City Hall. On August 12, 2004, the California State Supreme Court annulled their marriage. He is uncertain whether this annulment, like Henry VIII’s in days of old, means he is also a virgin once more. He’s having a hard time distinguishing, let alone separating, church from state these days.
Visit Ian Philips Online at: ianphilips.com
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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.
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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 has been published in two photographic anthologies.
Visit Jack Slomovits online at: http://JackNY.com
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Ian Rafael Titus
Ian Rafael Titus lives in New York City. In addition to Velvet Mafia, his fiction has been published in the magazine Into the Abyss and the anthology Frozen Tears II. Other works can be accessed at www.emergingwriters.com.
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