DALE CHASE has been writing gay erotica for eight years with over 100 stories published in various anthologies and magazines including translation into German. His first literary effort recently appeared in the Harrington Gay Men’s Fiction Quarterly.
M. CHRISTIAN is the author of the critically acclaimed and best-selling collections Dirty Words, Speaking Parts, The Bachelor Machine, and Filthy; and the novels Running Dry and The Very Bloody Marys. He is the editor of Confessions, Amazons, and Garden of Perverse (with Sage Vivant), The Mammoth Book of Future Cops and The Mammoth Book of Tales of the Road (with Maxim Jakubowski), and over 18 other anthologies. His short fiction has appeared in over 200 books and magazines including Best American Erotica, Best Gay Erotica, Best Lesbian Erotica, Best Transgendered Erotica, Best Fetish Erotica, Best Bondage Erotica and—well, you get the idea. He lives in San Francisco and is only some of what that implies.
TODD GREGORY is a New Orleans native and pornographer who has published many stories in a varied and eclectic selection of Web sites and anthologies. He has also edited the anthologies His Underwear and Blood Lust (with M. Christian). His first novel, Every Frat Boy Wants It, was published by Kensington in 2007; they are also publishing his vampire novella Bloodon the Moon. He is currently working on his next novel, about a gay gym, tentatively titled Muscles.
GREG HERREN is the author of seven novels, including Murder in the Rue Ursulines and the Lambda Literary Award–winning Murder in the Rue Chartres. He has edited numerous anthologies, including FRATSEX, Full Body Contact, and the Lambda Literary Award–winning Love, Bourbon Street: Reflections on New Orleans (with Paul J. Willis, his partner of fifteen years). He has published over fifty short stories, numerous journalism pieces, and currently lives in New Orleans with his longtime partner.
ADAM MCCABE is the pen name of a well-known mystery author. His work has appeared in a number of magazines and anthologies, including Best American Erotica 2000. He and his partner enjoy the research needed to create each story
KELLY MCQUAIN holds an MFA from the University of New Orleans and an MA from Temple University. He has twice won Fellowships from the Pennsylvania Council on the Arts, as well as Philadelphia City Paper Writing Awards in both fiction and poetry. His stories have appeared in The James White Review, Skin & Ink, Obsessed, The Harrington Gay Men’s Fiction Quarterly, Wilma Loves Betty, Best Gay Erotica, and elsewhere. Recently he juried the Philadelphia International Gay & Lesbian Film Festival. He is an associate professor of creative writing at Community College of Philadelphia.
CHRISTOPHER PIERCE is the author of the novel Rogue: Slave, published by StarBooks Press. His erotic fiction has been published in more than twenty-five anthologies, including Ultimate Gay Erotica 2005, 2006, 2007, and 2008. He co-edited the Fetish Chest Trilogy of anthologies with Rachel Kramer Bussel for Alyson Publications and edited Men on the Edge: Dangerous Gay Erotica for StarBooks. The second book in the Rogue Sequence is forthcoming. Visit Chris at http://www.christopherpierceerotica.com.
NEIL PLAKCY is the author of Mahu, Mahu Surfer, Mahu Fire, and Mahu Vice (August 2009), mystery novels set in Hawaii, and was the editor of Paws and Reflect: A Special Bond Between Man and Dog and Hard Hats: Gay Erotic Stories. More info at ww.mahubooks.com
NIC P. RAMSIES is an East Coast native with a passion for tiaras and ball gowns. He is a recovering Catholic. The second oldest in a family of six, Nic was the first boy in his small rural Pennsylvania town to NOT get his prom date pregnant. Voted most likely to take a boy to bed on the first date by his high school senior class (and they thought that was an insult), Nic has worked hard to live up to this title. While he is definitely royalty, no one would call him a queen. His name ultimately says it all. His erotic writing has appeared in the Alyson Press anthologies Sex Buddies and Bad Boys.
MAX REYNOLDS is the pseudonym of a well-known East Coast journalist and academic who teaches by day and just loves to write porn by night. Reynolds’s work has been widely published in magazines and anthologies, including Men of Mystery, His Underwear, FRATSEX, and Dangerous Liaisons. Reynolds’s erotic novel Touches of Evil will be published next year.
From Vancouver, Canada, JAY STARRE has written for numerous gay men’s magazines including Men,Torso, and Mandate. His stories have been included in over forty gay anthologies including Full Body Contact Kink, View to A Thrill, His Underwear, and Wired Hard 3. His short story “The Four Doors” was nominated for a 2003 Spectrum Award. His gay novel The Erotic Tales of the Knight Templars came out in the fall of 2007.
CAGE THUNDER is a professional wrestler for BGEast, the premier gay-interest wrestling video company in the world (www.BGEast.com). He has several wrestling-themed erotica stories in upcoming anthologies, is working on a novel, Going Down for the Count, and is also putting together of erotic wrestling stories written by gay wrestlers, called Learning the Ropes.
AARON TRAVIS is the pen name of novelist Steven Saylor. His first erotic story appeared in 1979 in Drummer magazine. Over the next fifteen years he wrote dozens of short stories, the serialized novel Slaves of the Empire, and hundreds of book and video reviews for magazines including, First Hand, Manscape, Hombres, Advocate Men, Mandate, Blueboy, Studflix, and Stroke. His stories have also been translated into Dutch, German, and Japanese. In 2003, his story “The Hit” was voted their all-time favorite by readers of Susie Bright’s Best American Erotica anthology series. Visit him at www.stevensaylor.com/AaronTravis.
GREG WHARTON is the author of Johnny Was & Other Tall Tales and the editor/co-editor of numerous anthologies including Invert(e): flagrantly queer culture, politics, sex, and dish and the Lambda Literary Award–winning I Do/I Don’t: Queers on Marriage. He lives in the California with his brilliant and sexy husband Ian.
LOGAN ZACHARY is a mystery author living in Minneapolis, Minnesota, where he works as an occupational therapist, is an avid reader and book collector. He enjoys movies, concerts, plays, and all the other cultural events that the Twin Cities have to offer. His stories can be found in Hard Hats, Taken By Force, Boys Caught in the Act, Ride Me Cowboy, Service with a Smile, Best Gay Erotica 2009, and Ultimate Gay Erotica 2009. He can be reached at LoganZachary2002@yahoo.com.