ABOUT THE AUTHORS

SHANE ALLISON’s writings have graced the pages of dozens of journals and saucy anthologies; a poetry collection, Slut Machine; and a book-length poem/memoir, I Remember. He has edited more than a dozen gay erotica anthologies. He resides in Florida, where he is hard at work on his first novel.

 

MICHAEL BRACKEN’s short fiction has been published in Best Gay Romance 2010, Beautiful Boys, Black Fire, Boy Fun, Boys Getting Ahead, Country Boys, Freshmen, The Handsome Prince, Homo Thugs, Hot Blood, The Mammoth Book of Best New Erotica 4, Muscle Men, Teammates and many other anthologies and periodicals.

 

DALE CHASE (dalechasestrokes.com) has been writing male erotica for more than a decade with numerous stories in magazines and anthologies. She has two story collections in print: If The Spirit Moves You: Ghostly Gay Erotica, and The Company He Keeps: Victorian Gentlemen’s Erotica.

 

JAMIE FREEMAN (jamiefreeman.net) lives in the historic center of a small Southern town. His work is featured in Best Gay Erotica 2009, 2010 and 2012, Hot Daddies, Blood Fruit and Special Forces. He’s hard at work on more erotic stories, so stay tuned.

 

DOUG HARRISON’s stories appear in twenty anthologies. His memoir, In Pursuit of Ecstasy, is online. He was active in San Francis’s leather community, and appears in videos and photo shoots, including the Bare Chest Calendar. He has grandchildren, a hunky partner and two tomcats. He lives in Hawaii.

 

DAVID HOLLY (facebook.com/david.holly2) is fascinated by the human penchant for odd mythologies, bizarre rituals, diverse religions, forlorn hopes and broken dreams. He is fond of strong coffee, red wine, English bitters, nude beaches and hot-looking guys. He wears bright colors, tight slacks, exotic underwear and slinky swim briefs.

 

THOMAS KEARNES’s fiction has appeared in Storyglossia, PANK, JMWW Journal, Word Riot, Night Train, The Pedestal, LITnIMAGE, Knee-Jerk, The Northville Review, Underground Voices and the gay venues Blithe House Quarterly, Velvet Mafia, Educe Journal, Best Gay Romance 2009 and OMGQueer. He recently published an e-book of his short fiction, Pretend I’m Not Here.

 

SHAUN LEVIN is a South African writer based in London. He is author, most recently, of Trees at a Sanatorium and Snapshots of The Boy , and of Seven Sweet Things and A Year of Two Summers. He edits the queer literary/arts journal, Chroma.

 

JEFF MANN has published three poetry chapbooks, three books of poetry, two collections of personal essays, two novels, a collection of memoir and poetry and a volume of short fiction. He teaches creative writing at Virginia Tech in Blacksburg, Virginia.

 

TONY PIKE’s erotic fiction has previously appeared in Vulcan and Zipper magazines in the United Kingdom, and in the anthologies, Dorm Porn II, Boy Crazy and Best Gay Erotica 2011.

 

RON RADLE writes gay love stories from the heart of the South Carolina Bible belt. His work has been published under a number of names in a number of places, both literary and nonliterary. He is finishing an erotic romance novel set during his college days in the mid-1980s.

 

ROB ROSEN (www.therobrosen.com), author of the novels Sparkle: The Queerest Book You’ll Ever Love, Divas Las Vegas and Hot Lava, has contributed to more than 125 anthologies, most notably Best Gay Romance 2007, 2008, 2009 and 2010.

 

DOMINIC SANTI (dominicsanti@yahoo.com) is a former technical editor turned rogue whose stories have appeared in many dozens of publications, including Hot Daddies, Country Boys, Uniforms Unzipped, Caught Looking, Kink and several volumes of Best Gay Erotica. Future plans include more dirty short stories and an even dirtier historical novel.

 

J. M. SNYDER (jms-books.com) writes gay erotic/romantic fiction and has worked with many different publishers over the years. Snyder’s short stories have appeared in anthologies by Alyson Books and Cleis Press. In 2010, Snyder founded JMS Books LLC, a queer small press, which publishes GLBT fiction, nonfiction and poetry.

 

MARK WILDYR’s (markwildyr.com) short stories and novellas, more than fifty and counting, have appeared in the magazines Freshmen and Men and in anthologies from assorted publishers, among them Alyson, Arsenal Pulp and Cleis, Companion, Green Candy, Haworth and STARbooks. Cut Hand, his full-length historical novel, was published in 2010.