About the Contributors

Bruce Benderson is currently best known for his seventh book, a memoir called The Romanian: Story of an Obsession (2006). In 2004, Benderson won France’s Prix de Flore for the translated version of this work. His monograph on the filmmaker James Bidgood was published in 1999, and his 1997 essay on urban culture, “Toward the New Degeneracy,” was chosen by Rolling Stone magazine as one of the 100 most remarkable creative works of that year. “Mouth of the River” is taken from the forthcoming novel Pacific Agony, to be published in 2007 by Clear Cut Press in the United States, and also in France.

 

Mack Friedman is author of the novel Setting the Lawn on Fire (2005), winner of the first Edmund White Award for Debut Fiction from the Publishing Triangle. His first book, Strapped for Cash: A History of American Hustler Culture (2003), was a finalist for the Lambda Literary Award in GLBT Studies.

 

Robert Glück has written nine books of poetry and fiction. His latest—a book of stories—was entitled Denny Smith (2004). Other publications include the novels Jack the Modernist (1985) and Margery Kempe (1994), another book of stories, Elements of a Coffee Service (1983), and Reader (1989), a book of poems and short prose. Along with Camille Roy, Mary Burger, and Gail Scott, Glück edits Narrativity, a Web site on narrative theory. An anthology based on the Web site, Biting the Error: Writers on Narrative, was published in 2005. “Bisexual Pussy Boy” is taken from a forthcoming novel, About Ed.

 

Andrew Holleran is author of the novels Dancer from the Dance (1978), Nights in Aruba (1983), The Beauty of Men (1996), and Grief (2006). He has also published a short story collection, In September, the Light Changes (1999), and a book of essays, Ground Zero (1988).

 

Tennessee Jones has published a short story collection, Deliver Me from Nowhere (2005). He is also author of the long-running zine Teenage Death Songs.

 

Kevin Killian has written two novels, Shy (1989) and Arctic Summer (1997); a book of memoirs, Bedrooms Have Windows (1990); two books of stories, Little Men (1996) and I Cry Like a Baby (2001); as well as a collection of poems, Argento Series (2001). With Lewis Ellingham, he has written a biography of the poet Jack Spicer, Poet Be Like God: Jack Spicer and the San Francisco Renaissance (1998). Killian’s latest book is Selected Amazon Reviews (2006). “Greensleeves” was first published in Roughed Up: More Tales of Gay Men, Sex, and Power (Alyson Books, 2003), edited by Simon Sheppard and M. Christian.

 

Wayne Koestenbaum has published one novel, Moira Orfei in Aigues-Mortes (2004), five books of poetry, and five books of nonfiction prose. His next book, Hotel Theory, will be published in 2007.

 

Shaun Levin’s most recent book is a collection of stories, A Year of Two Summers (2005). He has also published a novella, Seven Sweet Things (2003), and is editor of Chroma: A Queer Literary Journal. “The Big Fry Up at the Crazy Horse Café” first appeared in The Del Sol Review (Winter 2006).

 

Michael Lowenthal is author of the novels The Same Embrace (1998), Avoidance (2002), and Charity Girl (2007). The recipient of fellowships from the Bread Loaf and Wesleyan writers’ conferences, the Massachusetts Cultural Council, and the Hawthornden International Retreat for Writers, Lowenthal teaches creative writing at Boston College and in the low-residency MFA program at Lesley University. He also serves on the executive board of PEN New England. He can be reached via his Web site: www.michaellowenthal.com. “Marge” was first published in Post Road, no. 14 (Spring 2007).

 

Alistair McCartney has published one novel, The End of the World Book (2007).

 

David McConnell wrote the novel The Firebrat (2003). “Rivals” is taken from a forthcoming novel, The Beads.

 

James McCourt is author of three novels—Mawrdew Czgowchwz (1975), Time Remaining (1993), and Delancey’s Way (2000)—and two story collections, Kaye Wayfaring in “Avenged” (1984) and Wayfaring at Waverly in Silver Lake (2002). His most recent publication is Queer Street: The Rise and Fall of an American Culture, 1947-1985 (2004). McCourt has contributed to The Yale Review, The New Yorker, and The Paris Review. “Thermopylae” is taken from a forthcoming novel, Now Voyagers, due in late 2007 from Turtle Point Press.

 

Vestal McIntyre’s first book is the story collection You Are Not the One (2005), published in the United States and the UK.

 

Ethan Mordden’s fiction includes the “Buddies” cycle on life and love in gay Manhattan and a novel about Maria Callas, The Venice Adriana (1998). He has published both fiction and criticism in The New Yorker, and is currently researching a biography of Florenz Ziegfeld Jr.

 

Dale Peck has published three novels, Martin and John (1993), The Law of Enclosures (1996), and Now It’s Time to Say Goodbye (1998); a nonfiction book about his father, What We Lost (2003); a collection of book reviews, Hatchet Jobs (2005); and a novel for children, The Drift House: The First Voyage (2005). “The Piers” is taken from his novel The Garden of Lost and Found, published by Carroll and Graf in 2007.

 

Patrick Ryan’s first book was Send Me (2006). He is a recipient of a 2006 National Endowment for the Arts Grant for Fiction, and his young adult novel Saints of Augustine will come out in 2007.

 

John Weir is author of the novels The Irreversible Decline of Eddie Socket (1989) and What I Did Wrong (2006). “Neorealism at the Infiniplex” first appeared in the literary journal Gulf Coast (Winter/Spring 2006).

 

Edmund White has written some twenty books, including the autobiographical novels A Boy’s Own Story (1982), The Beautiful Room Is Empty (1988), and The Farewell Symphony (1997). He won the National Book Critics’ Circle Award for his 1993 biography of Jean Genet. White’s most recent books are the novel Fanny: A Fiction (2003) and a memoir, My Lives (2006). “The Painted Boy” is excerpted from his novel Hotel de Dream, published in 2007 by Bloomsbury (UK) and Ecco/HarperCollins (USA).