ABOUT THE AUTHORS

BRENT ARCHER has several short stories published with Cleis Press. His upcoming novel, Pennington’s Conquest, second of the Golden Scepter series, will be out soon with MuseItHOT Publishing. When not writing, Brent can be found either on stage singing or sipping a glass of wine under his grape arbor.

JONATHAN ASCHE’s work has appeared in numerous anthologies, including Wild Boys and Best Gay Erotica of the Year, Volume 1. He is also the author of the erotic novels Mindjacker, Moneyshots, and most recently, Dyre. He lives in Atlanta with his husband, Tomé.

XAVIER AXELSON (xavieraxelson.com) is a writer living in Los Angeles. Xavier’s work has been featured in various erotic and horror anthologies. Longer written works include The Incident, Velvet and Lily.

A. R. BELL is a corporate communication specialist with a degree in world literature and a master’s degree in Irish studies. Bell’s first literary attempts were pieces of romantic fan fiction and Bell’s writing later transitioned toward historic erotica.

EVEY BRETT (eveybrett.wordpress.com) has the same birthday as Japanese filmmaker Akira Kurosawa and a fascination for Japanese history. She lives in southern Arizona with her horse and has published numerous works with Cleis Press, Lethe Press, Loose Id and elsewhere.

DALE CHASE has written male erotica for seventeen years. Her second novel, Takedown: Taming John Wesley Hardin, was published in 2013; her first, Wyatt: Doc Holliday’s Account of an Intimate Friendship, came out in 2012. Dale has several published story collections and novellas while continuing to write for various anthologies.

ERIC DEL CARLO’S erotic fiction has appeared with Circlet Press, Ellora’s Cave, Cleis Press and other venues. His mainstream science fiction and fantasy have been published in Asimov’s, Analog, Strange Horizons and Shimmer, from Ace Books and DarkStar Books. Eric lives in his native California.

RHIDIAN BRENIG JONES has herded sheep in New Zealand, taught English in Poland and run a bar on the Costa del Sol. Now settled home in Wales, he leads an adult literacy program and writes at dawn and dusk. He lives with his husband, Michael, and French Bulldogs, Coco and Cosette.

RICHARD MAY writes gay short stories, erotic and not. His work has appeared in several literary journals, anthologies and his book Ginger Snaps: Photos & Stories of Redheaded Queer People. Rick also organizes several literary readings and events. He lives in San Francisco, in exile from Brooklyn, New York.

RICHARD MICHAELS has appeared in three previous Cleis Press anthologies: Best Gay Erotica, Volume 1, Best Gay Erotica 2015 and Special Forces. Recently, one of his stories was in the collection Not Just Another Pretty Face. His stories have also appeared in several leading gay magazines.

RILEY SHEPHERD publishes both fiction and erotica. Riley has gender, age, ethnicity and many other demographic characteristics, all of which may or may not influence the characters, points of view and situations chosen herein. But Riley doesn’t consider demographics to be particularly interesting.

B. SNOW’s goal as an author of gay romance is to write at least one story in every subgenre. Her published works include a paranormal Regency novella, a short novella about a time-traveling codpiece, and four anthology stories: two contemporary, one historical (pirates!) and one rip-off of a fairy tale.

SALOME WILDE (salandtalerotica.com) has published dozens of erotic stories across the orientation and gender spectrum, in genres from hard-boiled and Southern Gothic to Kaiju porn. Editor of Shakespearotica: Queering the Bard and Desire Behind Bars: Lesbian Prison Erotica, Wilde welcomes new writing challenges, of which gay warlords is certainly one.