Jessica Arndt
Jessica Arndt writes and slings drinks in San Francisco, and then heads east each summer to attend The Milton Avery Graduate School of the Arts at Bard College, New York. She is currently consumed with a long and swarthy fiction about sailing, gender, and the gold rush in California. Further excerpts of which can be found in the anthology Bottom's Up! from Soft Skull Press.
Read Down in the Dandy-Hole

Wayne Courtois
Wayne Courtois is author of the novel My Name Is Rand, published by Suspect Thoughts Press. Recent fiction has appeared in the Suspect Thoughts: a journal of subversive writing and in the anthologies Of the Flesh: Dangerous New Fiction, Love Under Foot, The Big Book of Erotic Ghost Stories, and Best Gay Erotica 2005. His nonfiction is included in I Do/I Don’t: Queers on Marriage and Walking Higher: Gay Men Write about the Deaths of Their Mothers. He lives in Kansas City, Missouri, where he is working on the novel A Pardoner’s Tale and other projects.
Visit Wayne Courtois online at: waynecourtois.com
Read Chapter One of A Pardoner's Tale

Jameson Currier
Jameson Currier is the author of the novel, Where the Rainbow Ends, and a collection of short stories, Desire Lust Passion Sex. His short fiction can also be found in the anthologies Men on Men, Best American Gay Fiction, Best Gay Erotica, Mammoth Book of Gay Erotica, Making Literature Matter, Rebel Yell, and Circa 2000, among others. His story “Snow,” published in the first issue of Velvet Mafia, was selected for Best Gay Erotica 2003 and Best American Erotica 2004.
Visit Jameson Currier online at: jamesoncurrier.com
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Denmark de la Croix
Originally from Louisiana but currently living in West Virginia, Denmark has been published in Exquisite Corpse, and has gotten some very positive rejection letters from several major magazines, including Playboy (who said they loved the story submitted, but it was not quite right for such a manly magazine as theirs).
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Mark Ewert
Mark Ewert is a Capricorn who--true to form--lives in a turret in an old Victorian mansion. He is very proud of Piki & Poko, the animated show he created with his best friend, David Cutler. He loves childrens' books, and one of his heroes is Ursula LeGuin. The stuff Mark is writing about Allen Ginsberg is all true, to the best of his recollection.
Read In Bed With Allen

Michael Graves
Michael Graves is twenty-six. He lives and writes in Massachusetts. His fiction has appeared in several literary journals, including Velvet Mafia, Lodestar Quarterly, Eclectica Magazine, Cherry Bleeds, Naked Poetry, The Armchair Aesthete, S.L.U.G. Fest Limited, Bastard Genres, Ken Again and Dusty Lizard. Michael’s work was also featured in the print anthology, Eclectica Magazine’s Best Fiction, Volume One. Additionally, one of his book reviews can be found in Lambda Book Report. When not creating, Michael spends time with his partner, Scott.
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Mark James
Mark lives with his submissive on a sultry South Florida beach. He is the author of the S/M novel The Iron Hand, which takes place on New Earth, a harsh medieval world. Mark is currently hard at work on part two of The Iron Hand, Shadowlands Chronicles, II.
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Read The Unforgiven

Collin Kelley
Collin Kelley’s first poetry collection, Better To Travel, was nominated for the Georgia Author of the Year Award, Kate Tufts Discovery Award and Lambda Literary Award. Last fall, he released his first spoken word album, HalfLife Crisis. He has been nominated for a 2005 Pushcart Prize by SubtleTea for his new poem "Credentials". New poetry is forthcoming in Terminus, The Chiron Review and Red Light: Superheroes, Saints & Sluts (Arsenal Pulp Press, Canada). Kelley is also co-editor of the Java Monkey Speaks Anthology Vol. 1 (Poetry Atlanta Press). In April, he will feature with Tony Hoagland and Noami Shihab Nye at the Austin International Poetry Festival in Texas.
Visit Collin Kelley online at: www.collinkelley.com
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Jeff Leavell
Jeff Leavell currently lives in Los Angeles California where he is a Case Manager at the Jeff Griffith Youth Center and an MFA student at Antioch University Los Angeles.
Read Being Fucked in Jesse's Bed

Scott D Pomfret
Scott D. Pomfret is co-author of the Romentics-brand line of romance novels for gay men (www.romentics.com). He also writes short stories that have been published in Post Road, New Delta Review, Genre Magazine, Freshmen: Best New Gay Voices, Best Gay Love Stories 2005, Best Gay Erotica 2005, and many other magazines and anthologies. Warner Books will publish his first novel, Hot Sauce, in June, 2005. Pomfret has recently completed a collection of short fiction, Until the Sugar Is Caramel, and a novel, Only Say the Word.
Visit Scott D Pomfret online at: www.scottpomfret.com
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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: jackny.com
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Horehound Stillpoint
horehound stillpoint’s shit is so over the top, there’s just no polite way to talk about it. Bambi Lake, on the stage of yet another seedy dive, once followed horehound and said, “ ... that guy, it’s amazing; he writes this poetry that’s pure porn, and then during the day he serves elegant food to some of San Francisco swankiest customers. If only they knew.” He’s been doing men, and doing poetry about men, in all of the darkest corners of America, forever, and he’s not showing any signs of mellowing yet. Pathetic or noble, trash or art, only the reader can decide.
Read his Poetry from Bullets and Butterflies: Queer Spoken Word Poetry

Gerard Wozek
Gerard Wozek is the author of "Dervish" which won the Gival Press Poetry Award. His short fiction has appeared in Erotic Travel Tales, the Harrington Gay Men's Fiction Quarterly, The Road Within: True Stories of Transformation, Best Gay Erotica 1998, and Blithe House Quarterly. His award winning poetry videos have played at festivals and conferences around the world. He teaches writing at Robert Morris College in Chicago.
Visit Gerard Wozek online at: www.gerardwozek.com
Read Francois at the Toilette