Ken Anderson
A Professor Emeritus of English, Ken Anderson has been a consultant for a fine-arts journal and a gay men’s literary quarterly. His fiction and poetry have appeared in over a hundred journals and anthologies, such as Bay Windows, The Gay Review, and The James White Review. His has two collections of poetry, Permanent Gardens and The Intense Lover: A Suite of Poems, and his play, Mattie Cushman: A Psychodrama, has been produced twice and aired on cable. His novel, Someone Bought the House on the Island: A Dream Journal, was a finalist in the Independent Publisher Book Awards, and he is looking for a prodcuer or agent for the stage and screenplay versions of the novel. His third book Hasty Hearts is a collection of ten short stories plus a reprint of his novel.
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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.
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Denmark de la Croix
Denmark de la Croix isn't afraid of heights, just falling from them, even when he's on the ground. Originally from Louisiana he now resides in West Virginia (you can't really call it living). Publications include Velvet Mafia (Issue 14 - Army of Me), Outsider Ink (Winter 2005), and Doorknobs and Bodypaint (Issue Forty-One - Love Issue). He is a fan of almonds. He drinks too much beer sometimes, and cries into it. He's still crazy about the guy in another hemisphere (oi querido). And he's still working to make all of his dreams come true.
Contact Denmark at: dendelacroix@yahoo.com
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Mick Dementiuk
Mick Dementiuk was born in 1949 in West Germany and went to college at Columbia University. After drinking and partying and working he started his stories about Times Square, some lurid, some tepid, but with boys and girls and all on a sex hunt. He has been published in Paramour, Eidos, Aphrodite Gone Berserk, Avalon Rising and in chapbooks from Maudlin Street Press. His novella, Times Queer, was published by Synergy Press.
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Robert Dunbar
Novelist and playwright Robert Dunbar is the author of two supernatural thrillers The Pines and The Shore. He has written numerous public television and cable programs, and his work has appeared in publications as diverse as Apex Digest, A&U, Bare Bone, The Bottom Line, Descant, The Front Page, Frontiers, Lambda Book Report, Lodestar Quarterly, PGN, Southern Voice and The Washington Blade. He is also the author of the comedy/horror play BATS! He and his partner live in Pennsylvania.
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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. Drew’s story Teeth won the 2005 Leicestershire Short Story Prize and his story Reyka was a winner in the 2005 Middlesex University Prize.
Visit Drew Gummerson online at: http://freespace.virgin.net/d.gummerson
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Trebor Healey
Trebor Healey is the author of the 2004 Ferro-Grumley and Violet Quill award-winning novel, Through It Came Bright Colors (Harrington Park Press), and a poetry collection, Sweet Son of Pan, (Suspect Thoughts, 2006). His short story collection, A Perfect Scar & Other Stories, is forthcoming in 2007. Trebor lives in Los Angeles.
Visit Trebor Healey online at: www.treborhealy.com
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Collin Kelley
Collin Kelley is Pushcart Prize-nominated poet from Atlanta. His current book, Slow To Burn (2006, Metro Mania Press), was released in April as a limited-edition chapbook. His debut collection of poetry, Better To Travel, was nominated for the Kate Tufts Discovery Award, Lambda Literary Award and Georgia Author of the Year Award. His spoken word CD, HalfLife Crisis, was released in Fall, 2004. Kelley’s poetry has appeared in many journals, including Terminus, New Delta Review, Chiron Review, The Pedestal, Blaze, Lily, Poetry Super Highway, Velvet Mafia, Welter, The Harrow, SubtleTea, Offerings, HomeGround (UK) and the di-verse-city 2006 and Red Light: Superheroes, Sluts & Saints anthologies. Kelley also hosts the Internet radio show The Business of Words at Leisure Talk Radio Network.
Visit Collin Kelley online at: www.collinkelley.com
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Matty Lee
Matty Lee received his GED from the Dade County School Board some time in the late eighties. He went on to attend Los Angeles Community College but lost interest after Spanish I. He’s been employed as a tree climber, a bartender, a medical research patient, a deckhand, a telephone repairman, a salesman, a fabric librarian, a night watchman, a customer service representative, and on and on. He currently lives in Los Angeles, California where he loves to surf, read, and play with small fury animals.
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Deb Lewis
Deb R. Lewis earned her M. F. A. in Creative Writing at Columbia College Chicago. Her writing has appeared in Dyversity (UK), International Drummer, Bad Attitude, VelvetMafia.com, Blithe House Quarterly, Gertrude, Sleepwalk, Pigeon, The2ndHand.com, Blue, Sandmutopia Guardian, PoeticVoices.com, Windy City Times, multiple issues of the award-winning Hair Trigger fiction annual, and has been anthologized in The Woman-Centered Economy (Third Side Press, Chicago). Most recently, her story “Waiting at One End of Time” was a top ten finalist in the Many Mountains Moving 2005 Flash Fiction Contest and her novella, Asylum 9-1-1, was named a semi-finalist in the 2005 Faulkner-Wisdom Creative Writing Competition. She teaches in the Fiction Writing Department at Columbia College Chicago.
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Michael McAvan
Michael McAvan is a pansexual genderqueer writer from Perth, Western Australia. Besides trying to get his PhD finished (haha), and finding time to write poems, his most recent project has been Bisexual Cyborg, an electropop queer theory pop-culture intervention.
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Ernesto Sarezale
Ernesto Sarezale is the pen name of a Basque cognitive scientist, writer and performance poet based in London, UK. His creative work includes: concrete poetry, body and performance art, multimedia (video, sound, word,...), and hypertext/web-based art and literature. Ernesto has performed at a variety of poetry events, cabaret nights, clubs and miscellaneous arts events, mostly in London and England, but also recently in Canada and the US. In 2002 he founded and co-hosted "Homophone", a successful series of queer poetry readings at the Poetry Cafe in London. A number of his poems have been published: on paper (Chroma, Magma, Rising), on line (Transparent Words, the-cyber-kitchen.com) and on cd (Taking the Mike and The Creative Swing compilations).
Visit Ernesto Sarezale online at at: http://www.sarezale.com
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Taylor Siluwé
Since writing and directing a ninth-grade production entitled, Land of the Mandinka (an African Romeo & Juliet), Taylor has had a burning passion to write. He went on to study Creative Writing at New York University, and has written for Venus Magazine and Literary New York. His erotically charged short story, "A Taste for Cherries" appeared in the anthology, Tough Guys. His steamy and apocalyptic tale, "When Romeo Wakes" first appeared on Velvet Mafia...then it graduated to the anthology, Law of Desire (Alyson Publications), edited by Greg Wharton. He can be found either sounding off on his website, SGLcafé.com, which shines a much needed proud light on Same Gender Love. Or through his charitable work with the Rashawn Brazell Memorial Fund, which, in a world increasing run by religious lunatics, seeks to foster diversity and change.
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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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