R.R. Angell
"Original Sin" is just one in a collection of Steven stories. Another, "Tag", appeared in The Baltimore Review in the Summer 1997 issue. Concerning "An Original Sin", Angell says, "It is amazing to me the incredibly subtle and pervasive harm a culture of intolerance, avoidance, and denial does to our youth. It takes tremendous courage to grow up gay at any age. If you can't be who you are, you'll never become who you could be; and that speaks to a tremendous loss for society."

Angell is a graduate of the Clarion West Science Fiction Workshop, a Virginia Center for the Creative Arts fellow, and has received numerous awards and grants. His work has appeared in numerous literary journals. A science fiction story with important gay content will appear in the January 2006 issue of Asimov's Science Fiction Magazine, on the shelves in December 2005. Ask for it!
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Justin Buchbinder
Justin Buchbinder lives on Long Island and works in Manhattan as a content writer and internet architect for New York’s largest Public Relations firm. He has been published previously in X-Factor magazine, Frontiers Newsmagazine, and Velvet Mafia. When not working, Justin edits his two current full-length manuscripts: For the Love of My Family, a fictional account of a family going through a tragic divorce told in changing first person narrative, and My Slutacular Past, a memoir about Justin’s sexual adventures before and after coming out of the closet. Justin is also a five-year veteran Blogger. His Blogs, Change at Jamaica and Proliforati attract more than 750 daily visitors.
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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.
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Justin Chin
Justin Chin is the author of Attack of the Man-Eating Lotus Blossoms, a collection of performance art texts, documents, and scripts. He is also the author of two collections of poetry, Harmless Medicine and Bite Hard, and two collections of essays, Burden of Ashes and Mongrel: Essays, Diatribes and Pranks. Chin's writings have also been anthologized widely, most notably in The Outlaw Bible Of American Poetry, American Poetry: The Next Generation, and The World In Us: Lesbian and Gay Poetry of the Next Wave, among others. He lives in San Francisco.
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Dean Durber
Dean Durber is a published author of queer fiction, academic papers, and journalistic texts. His works have appeared in such anthologies as I Do, I Don't (Suspect Thoughts), Everything I Own Is Blue (Suspect Thoughts), Boy Meets Boy (St. Martins), and Best Gay Erotica 2003 (Cleis). His novel, Johnny, Come Home, has been described as having “one of the most offensive, sex-starved, possibly delusional and amazingly fucked-up narrators our homebred literature has seen in recent years” (Bent Magazine, Australia). Dean holds a Master of Arts in Theatre Studies and a Bachelor of Arts in Chinese and Japanese Studies. He recently completed his PhD in the area of sexuality studies. He now lectures in queer theory, media studies, gender studies, cultural studies, and drug culture.
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Rick Laurent Feely
Rick Laurent Feely grew up with a single mother in the mountains of southern California, where he became a runaway at the age of twelve. He spent his youth escaping from psychiatric institutions, hitchhiking around the country, and defending himself with straight razors. He is now twenty-four and lives in Philly, where he organizes around queer, youth, and class issues; engages in a variety of part-time work; goes to school; writes; makes art; and obsesses about the human condition. “Skins” won the Spring 2003 Judith Stark Fiction Award at the Community College of Philadelphia and is his first published story.
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Drew Gummerson
Drew Gummerson was born in 1971 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 next novel Darts was a finalist in the UKA/PABD Great Read Novel Competition and is due to be published in the future by ENC Press. 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 (Lambda Award finalist 2004), Best Gay Erotica 2005 (Cleis Press - Lambda Award winner 2004), Aesthetica Magazine, The Gay Read, Going Down Swinging 22, This Is It, Open Wide, Pulp.net, Blithe House Quarterly, Megaera.org, Zygote In My Coffee, Laura Hird, Velvet Mafia, Word Riot and Forbidden Fruit.
Visit Drew Gummerson online at: http://freespace.virgin.net/d.gummerson
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Jonathan Harper
Jonathan has just turned 25 and has a huge crush on Mary Gaitskill. His story "After Hours" will be featured in the anthology Homewrecker: An Adultery Reader due out from Soft Skull Press in September 05. He lives in the Washington DC area.
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Charles Harvey
Charles Harvey is a writer residing in Houston Texas. His poetry has appeared recently in the ezine Newversenews. Over time he has appeared in various anthologies--Shade and Soulfires to name a couple. A fiction piece "My Manhood is Very Important to Me" appeared in Issue 5 of Velvet Mafia.
Visit Charles Harvey online at: http://dream2.org/Harvey/index.html
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Jeff Mann
Jeff Mann's poetry, fiction, and essays have appeared in many publications, including The Gay and Lesbian Review, Prairie Schooner, Rebel Yell, West Branch, Crab Orchard Review, Shenandoah, Best Gay Erotica 2003 and 2004, Bear Lust, and Appalachian Heritage. He has published a collection of poetry, Bones Washed with Wine; a memoir, Edge; and a novella, Devoured, in the anthology Masters of Midnight: Erotic Tales of the Vampire. Upcoming are a collection of memoir and poetry, Loving Mountains, Loving Men; a book of poetry, On the Tongue; and a volume of short fiction, A History of Barbed Wire. He teaches at Virginia Tech in Blacksburg, Virginia.
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Ginger Mayerson
Originally trained as a composer, and published by Bayside Music Press, I segued into writing prose in the late 1990s. My nonfiction has appeared in Sequential Tart, Inquisitor Online, and the Journal of the Lincoln Heights Literary Society, of which I am also the founder and editor in chief. My poetry has appeared in Roux Magazine, Tapestries, and Blurring the Line. I have completed three novels about Los Angeles in the 1980s and am currently finishing up a trilogy of dystopian novellas called Darkness at Sunset and Vine.
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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.
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Emily Veinglory
Emily Veinglory is a New Zealand born research scientist currently living in Indiana. She writes short erotic fiction and erotic romance ebooks including the werewolf novella Eclipse of the Heart available from Loose-Id.com.
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