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EDWARD ALBEE is a Pulitzer Prize–winning playwright, author of The Zoo Story, Who’s Afraid of Virginia Woolf?, A Delicate Balance, Seascape, and Three Tall Women, among many others. He lives in New York City and Montauk, Long Island.
RANDY ALLGAIER is a San Franciscan living with AIDS who has a long history in AIDS advocacy and gay activism. He served on numerous boards, committees and councils, chairing many of them. His love of animals and gay activism combined when he served as president of the Board of Pets Are Wonderful Support (PAWS).
KEVIN ANDERSEN is a financial officer for an international health-care corporation based in Detroit. He now lives in London.
VICTOR J. BANIS is a pioneer in writing about the lives of gay men and lesbians. He has published many books, most recently a reissue of his classic Tales from C.A.M.P., three spy spoof novels featuring agent Jackie Holmes and his adventures with Sophie, his saber-toothed white poodle. Banis lives in West Virginia.
STEVE BERMAN writes speculative queer fiction. He has sold nearly seventy short stories and articles, and his young adult novel, Vintage: A Ghost Story, was published by the Haworth Press.
CHARLES BUSCH is the author of the award-winning Broadway play, The Tale of the Allergist’s Wife, and author and star of such plays as The Lady in Question, Red Scare on Sunset, and Vampire Lesbians of Sodom, which ran for five years Off-Broadway. He wrote and starred in the film versions of Psycho Beach Party and Die Mommie Die, for which he won Best Performance Award at the Sundance Film Festival. In 2003, Mr. Busch received a special Drama Desk Award for career achievement as both performer and playwright.
HAL CAMPBELL lives in the wine-making region of Sonoma County in a home he shares with his newest rescued Beagles, Penny and Millie. He is also the book critic for We the People, the LGBT newspaper in northern California. He is currently at work on his first novel.
JONATHAN CAOUETTE is a director, writer, editor, and actor. His film Tarnation was an official selection of the Cannes, New York, Sundance and Toronto film festivals and won Best Documentary from the National Society of Film Critics. He lives in New York City with his partner, David Sanin Paz.
J. R. G. DEMARCO lives and writes in Philadelphia and Montréal. Currently a columnist for X-Factor magazine, he has also been a columnist for The Advocate, In Touch, and Gaysweek. His essays have been published in anthologies including Gay Life, Hey, Paisan!, We Are Everywhere, BlackMen WhiteMen, and Men’s Lives.
DONALD L. HARDY is a cube wrangler in Silicon Valley by day, actor, writer, and rogue editor by night. His first novel is currently in the editing phase. He lives on his sailboat in Alameda, on San Francisco Bay.
STEPHEN KWIELCHEK was a paralegal in Washington, D. C. He died of AIDS.
ALISTAIR McCARTNEY was born in 1971 in Australia. His writing has appeared in numerous anthologies and journals, including Fence, The James White Review, FreshMen: New Gay Fiction, Aroused, and Wonderlands: Good Gay Travel Writing. “On the Impossibility of Existing Without Dogs” is excerpted from his first book, The End of the World Book, published by the University of Wisconsin Press. He lives in Los Angeles with his partner, Tim Miller.
BRIAN McCORMICK is the arts editor of Gay City News and managing director of nicholasleichterdance, and teaches media studies at the New School in New York City.
RANDALL McCORMICK is Senior Systems Manager for a printing company in Atlanta. He and his Boxer, Samson, spend their free time outdoors, hiking, camping, and swimming, and collecting antiques. He is a member of the Human Rights Campaign.
DAVID MIZEJEWSKI is manager of the National Wildlife Federation’s Backyard Wildlife Habitat program, host of Backyard Habitat on Animal Planet, and author of Attracting Birds, Butterflies and Other Backyard Wildlife.
JACK MORTON is a four-time Emmy Award–winning stylist. He served as the official stylist for ABC during the 1996 Atlanta Olympics and is the owner of Indulgence Salon, in Atlanta, and WrApsody in Blue, in Blue Ridge, Georgia.
RON NYSWANER is the screenwriter of The Painted Veil, Philadelphia, Mrs. Soffel, and many other films. His memoir, Dark Days, Blue Nights, was published by Alyson Books in 2004.
G. RUSSELL OVERTON is a historical researcher for a consulting firm in Lansing, Michigan. He has written both fiction and nonfiction and has two novels planned for publication.
MATTHEW PHILLIPS works in a forty-year-old family construction business, and owns and operates a chain of retail stores that include car washes and oil-change centers in Westchester, New York. He lives in New York City with two Brussels Griffons and his partner of ten years, Saul Sayeh.
JAY QUINN is the author of the novel The Good Neighbor, published by Alyson Books, as well as the novels Metes and Bounds and Back Where He Started, in addition to works of nonfiction. He lives Fort Lauderdale, Florida, with his partner and their dogs, Patsy and Hailey.
LEV RAPHAEL escaped university teaching in 1988 after thirteen years to write full-time. Since then, he has published seventeen books in a variety of genres. Winner of a Lambda Book Award among other prizes, he has been featured in three documentaries, and his books have been published in almost a dozen languages. His most recent books are Secret Anniversaries of the Heart (stories) and Writing a Jewish Life (memoir). He married his partner in Canada on their twenty-first anniversary. They live in mid-Michigan with two Westies, Kobi and his younger cousinYuri.
Jeffrey Ricker’s writing has appeared in the anthologies Paws and Reflect and Fool for Love: New Gay Fiction, and the forthcoming Blood Sacraments. Hi first novel, Detours, is forthcoming from Bold Strokes Books. A graduate of the University of Missouri School of Journalism, he lives in St. Louis with his partner, two dogs, and two cats. Follow his blog at jeffreyricker.wordpress.com.
JUSTIN RUDD is the founder of Haute Dog, which organizes Bulldog Beauty Contest, Howl’oween Parade, Blessing of the Animals, Easter Parade, and other dog-related community events in Long Beach, California, where he lives with his Bulldog, Rosie.
MICHAEL WALLERSTEIN is a senior sales analyst for Tyco Healthcare International in St. Louis. He earned his B. S. in business at Indiana University—Bloomington and his M. B. A. from Washington University in St. Louis. He lives with his partner, Jeffrey Ricker, their three cats, and two dogs.
ANDY ZEFFER is the author of the novel Going Down in La-La Land, a racy romp through the dark and funny sides of Hollywood. He has written for magazines and newspapers such as the Provincetown Banner, New York Blade, Washington Blade, Southern Voice, and The Express.
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