Justin Buchbinder
Justin is cute as a fucking button. If you saw him walking
down the street, or crafting website copy for Fortune
500 companies at work, you would never imagine he could
write such bloody, vicious and sexy short stories. But
he does. In fact, this marks Justin's third published
story in Velvet Mafia. He writes novels as well,
but no agent or publisher has taken a liking to those
yet. To deal with the pain of being unpublished, Justin
bathes in the unending love provided by his gorgeous boyfriend
on Manhattan's posh Upper East Side and drinks the nights
away at clubs and bars where he often crashes into the
characters of his next fiction piece. He'd thank his mom
and dad, but he'll never let them see this story anyway.
Visit Justin's MySpace at http://www.myspace.com/bluepose
Read Justin's Blog, Change at Jamaica at http://bluepose.livejournal.com
Read Party Crasher
Philip Clark
Philip Clark is a Washington D.C.-area writer, editor,
and book collector/seller. "Just Another 'Night with
the Coach' Story" was his first published porn (in
Full Body Contact, Alyson Books, 2002), under
a rather silly pseudonym that he is now pleased to shed.
His porn has appeared in other Alyson anthologies and
Inside Him (Carroll & Graf). On a more romantic
note, he has an essay forthcoming in Best Date Ever.
His current editing project, an anthology of poetry by
writers who died from AIDS, should shortly have a publisher
(or so he devoutly hopes). Contact Philip Clark at philipclark@hotmail.com.
Read Just Another 'Night with
the Coach' Story
Kal Cobalt
Kal Cobalt has penned over a dozen stories published across
the web and in print. Find Kal's work in Richard Labonte's
"Hot Gay Erotica" anthology, Velvet
Mafia, Clean
Sheets, and in the upcoming anthologies Best Fantastic
Erotica, Country Boys, and Distant Horizons.
Find out more at www.kalcobalt.com.
Read The Belt
Daniel Allen Cox
Daniel Allen Cox is the author of the novella Tattoo
This Madness In (Dusty Owl Press, 2006), and the
chapbook collection Episodes of Deflated Magic
(Fever Press, 2004). His fiction has appeared in Filling
Station, Maisonneuve, Word
Riot and other magazines, as well as in the anthology
Year of the Thief (Thieves Jargon Press, 2006).
He is the Artist Spotlight Editor of Outsider
Ink magazine. In the 90's he wrote interviews
for the legendary punk newspaper New York Waste.
Read an excerpt from Tattoo
This Madness In
Jonathan Harper
Jonathan Harper was born in 1980 and dreamed of growing
up to be a tattooed freak, a professional violinist and
a superhero. Instead, he opted to work for the Lambda
Literary Foundation from 2002-2005 and currently attends
the MFA Program at American University. His fiction has
previously appeared in Velvet Mafia, Defenestration
Mag and in the anthology Homewrecker: An Adultery
Reader. He was nominated for a Pushcart Prize and
a Rauxa Award in 2005. He really-really likes video games.
Read Lycanthropy
Bradley Harris
Bradley Harris has written for Time Out New York,
Senses of Cinema and Film International.
This is his first published story. You can reach him at
dannyboy143@hotmail.com.
Read The Changing Room
Thomas Kearnes
Raised in the sublimely gay-friendly pocket of the nation
known as East Texas, Thomas Kearnes is a 30-year-old freelance
advertiser, author and photographer. His fiction has appeared
or is scheduled to appear in Harrington Gay Men's
Literary Quarterly, Forbidden
Fruit, Blithe
House Quarterly, SmokeLong Quarterly,
flashquake, Bound Off, Underground
Voices, Wicked Hollow, Mad Hatter's
Review and Southern Hum. His flash piece,
"Photograph," appears this month in Underground
Voices: Print Edition Volume One.
His photography has appeared or is scheduled to appear
in Events Quarterly, Bathtub Gin, Tattoo Highway, Noo
Journal, Skidrow Penthouse, Fiction Attic and Fringe.He
can be found at www.myspace.com/thomaskearnes.
His photography can be found at trkearnes.blogs.friendster.com/photos/the_thief_of_you
Read The Cat Room
Rob McLaughlin
Rob McLaughlin’s short story “Things
You Don’t See” was published in Facets
in 2002 and went on to be nominated for a Pushcart Prize.
His 2004 story “Special Appearance” received
Honorable Mention in the 73rd Annual Writer’s
Digest Writing Competition. Additional fiction has
appeared in Kitchen Sink; forthcoming fiction
to appear in Instant City, Dispatch,
and The Cimarron Review. He received his MFA
in Creative Writing from San Francisco State University
in 2006.
Read Feel-Bad Entertainment
Sam J. Miller
Sam J. Miller is a community organizer. He lives
in the Bronx with his partner of five years. When he’s
not writing or organizing poor people to fight for social
justice, he’s binging on silent movies and punk
rock. Drop him a line at samjmiller79@yahoo.com.
Read Short Sad Sordid Sexual
Encounters
Christopher O'Flaherty
One dark and stormy night a couple dozen years
ago, Chris was born in a small hospital in the big state
of California. Since that undefined time he has apparently
not really been writing very much (or very well, which
he shudders to think about), as this will be his first
published scribblings ever, aside from a few short articles
in Screw magazine under the assumed name of Tech
Rodriguez (which he didn't choose for himself and finds
pretty tacky). Currently he lives in New York with a very
nice lesbian who doesn't mind if his rent checks bounce
sometimes.
Read Star Cock: The Voyage
Homo
Steven Reigns
Steven Reigns is a graduate of the University
of South Florida’s Creative Writing program and
has taught creative writing workshops to gay youth groups
and people living with AIDS. The three poems featured
in Velvet Mafia are excerpted from his latest
chapbook Cartography, a ten part non-lineal poem
dealing with the unexpected death of his friend Michael
Colleli.
Visit Steven Reigns online at: www.stevenreigns.com
Read his Poetry
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
Cary Steven
Cary Steven lives in upstate New York and longs for California.
This fall he turned 30.
Read Fall
Raymond Taylor
Raymond Taylor is a San Francisco trained social
activist who believes the personal is political. Having
attended the New College of California he recognizes the
link between Arts and Social Change. He has published
both online and in print, in the US and UK on subjects
as varied as sexual abuse, mental illness, prostitution,
addiction, Trans- and gender identity, HIV and AIDS. Raymond’s
work has been featured in The James White Review,
Prosodia, Suspect Thoughts, Velvet
Mafia and the UK-based magazine The International
Journal of Erotica which serialized his nineteen
poem cycle “Moscow/St. Petersburg”. Mr. Taylor
has been certified as a poet-teacher by the California
Poets-in-the-Schools (CPITS) and taught a workshop at
their 1994 Annual Poet-Teacher Conference on meeting the
needs of Queer youth. The same year he served as Editor
for The Word As Catalyst, a three volume collection
of creative writing lesson plans for CPITS. Despite our
difficult historical moment, he is filled with hope for
the future. He currently resides in Albuquerque, New Mexico.
Read his Poetry
