Tom Cardamone
Tom considers himself the reincarnation of Gary Numan (with Gary still being
alive, this is somtehing of a retroactive-thingy). He's 35, lives in NYC, and
has a skull full of novels.
Visit Tom Cardamone online at: www.pumpkinteeth.net
Read Part 1 of Pacific
Rimming
Kal Cobalt
Kal Cobalt is an omnisexual kink-obsessed Oregon
native involved in a torrid long-term affair with words.
See more of Kal's work in the current issues of S.M.U.T.
Magazine and Clean
Sheets. This is Kal's second appearance in Velvet
Mafia.
Read In the Trenches
John Fink
John Fink quietly plots his literary world domination
from Atlanta, where he resides. He is busy writing several
future best-selling novels while working as a graphic
designer and a massage therapist.
Read Scenes Of
The Flesh from Skin & Ink
Ragan Fox
Ragan Fox is one of the most recognized
queer voices in the world of
spoken word poetry. His work has appeared in numerous
journals and
anthologies, including LodestarQuarterly.com, In
Our Own Words, and Freedom to Speak. Heterophobia, his first full-length
book of poetry,
was published in January of 2005 by Lethe
Press. An accomplished
performance artist, Fox has written and starred in award-winning
solo
productions, including 10/Negative and Kid: A Gut-Wrenchingly
Hilarious Look at Child Molestation, which appears as
a book chapter
in The Seven Deadly Sins. He received his BS and MA in
Communication
from the University of Texas at Austin and, in the spring
of 2006,
will complete the PhD program in Communication at Arizona
State
University where he teaches undergraduate courses at
the Hugh Downs
School of Human Communication.
Visit Ragan Fox online
at: hometown.aol.com/utcooper/ragan.html
Read 'Headstone'
Sam J. Miller
Sam J. Miller is a community organizer. He lives in
the Bronx with his partner of three years. When he’s
not writing or organizing poor people to fight for
social justice, he’s binging on silent movies
and punk rock. He’s currently working on his
first novel, from which “Auschwitz Blowjob” is
excerpted. Drop him a line at samjmiller79@yahoo.com.
Read Auschwitz Blowjob
Steve Nugent
Steve Nugent lives in Toronto and has had short fiction
published in The Church Wellesley Review, fab
magazine,
excalibur, Lichen Literary Journal,
and in Velvet
Mafia. His stories have appeared
in the anthologies Quickies 2, Exhibitions:
Tales of Sex in the City, Buttmen, Bent,
Afterwords: Real Sex from Gay Men's Diaries,
and Boyfriends
from Hell. His biography of his uncle, killed
as a member of the International Brigade in the Spanish
Civil War, “No
Coward Soul “(Fire Horse Productions) was published
in 2003. He has just completed a one act play - The
Ray and Barney Visits, and is putting together a
collection of short fiction. Email Steve Nugent at dedalus@rogers.com.
Read The Punch Up
Patrick Ryan
Patrick Ryan was born and raised in New Orleans.
He is the Editor-in-Chief of Lodestar Quarterly and was
formerly Editor-in-Chief of Fourteen Hills and Assistant
Editor of Harrington Gay Men's Fiction Quarterly. His
fiction is forthcoming in Cairn and has appeared in The
Ontario Review, Best New American Voices 2001, Men
on Men 2000: Best Gay Fiction for the New Millennium, The
James White Review, Pleiades, Hanging
Loose, and Rainbow
Curve, among others. His first novel, The Resistant,
is represented by Mitchell Waters at Curtis Brown, Limited.
Read Between Here and There
D. Travers Scott
Born in Waco, Texas, D. Travers Scott was raised in
wildly varying locations and conditions, from poolside
caviar to mobile homes without running water. A born-again
Southern Baptist and neopagan teen psychic, his eclectic
childhood fueled his diverse adult explorations of sex,
storytelling, and masculinity. He is the author of the
acclaimed novel Execution, Texas: 1987, and has appeared
everywhere from Harper’s to This American
Life.
This fall he will begin pursuing a PhD at the USC Annenberg
School for Communication.
Visit D. Travers Scott online at: www.dtraversscott.com
Read an Excerpt from One Of These Things Is Not
Like The Other
Van Scott
I have a Masters degree in Philosophy from NYU.
I've had short stories published in Modern Words
7; SpoonFedAmerika.com (Fall ‘02); Harrington
Gay Men's Fiction Quarterly, (issue-3) & VelvetMafia.com.
I have pieces forthcoming in Friction 7 (Feb. ‘04;
re-print), & in the U.K. based website, OpenWideMagazine.co.uk (Jan/Feb ‘04).
A native of New York, I’m of Irish/Italian extraction.
Email Van Scott: van_tazia@hotmail.com.
Read Something about Wittgenstein
Jack Slomovits
Jack
Slomovits is an erotic and lifestyles photojournalist. His work
is published internationally in various mediums, as well as, collected
and represented by dealers and galleries. Slomovits' approach to
capturing moments on film is a combination of voyuerism and lust
for his models, experiencing the moment through his subjects and
the lens. Jack Slomovits' current work is split between erotic
imagery and wedding photojournalism.
Visit Jack Slomovits online at: jackny.com
Check Out his Photography
Rob Stephenson
Rob Stephenson's writing appears online and in print in such publications as:
Mascara, Skin
and Ink, Between the Palms, Blithe
House Quarterly, BUTT,
Dangerous
Families, Problem Child, Best Gay Erotica, and Perspectives
on Evil and
Human Wickedness. He has written introductions to two of Samuel Delany's
books: HOGG published
by Fiction Collective 2 and The Motion of
Light in Water published as a Triangle Classic by Insight Out Books. He
designs a continuing series of chapbooks that feature his poetry, essays, stories,
and photography.
He edited the erotic anthology Tough Guys with Bill Brent (Black
Books) which
was nominated for a Firecracker Award. A CD composed with Mikael Karlsson
will be available later this year from Please
Musicworks.
Visit Rob Stephenson online at: www.RAWBE.com
Read Angel
James Williams
James Williams is the author of one collection of erotica, ...But
I Know What You Want (San Francisco: Greenery Press, 2003);
his first significant non-fiction venture is "Mother and Child Reunion," which
will appear in Walking Higher: Gay Men Write About the Deaths of Their Mothers.
He can be found in the ether at www.jaswilliams.com
Read All At Sea With Master E
