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DOUGLAS A. MARTIN is the author of the novel Outline of My Lover.
ALISTAIR MCCARTNEY was born in 1971 in Perth, Australia, a city distinguished by its status as the most isolated industrialized city in the world. He attended Catholic boys school for twelve years, where he read the Bible and wore tight gray shorts and long gray socks, For as long as he can remember he has wanted to be someone else, somewhere else. He has posed for nude magazines, and appeared in solo jerk-off videos and on the Web. He writes because he has to. He loves sentences, and enjoys daydreaming, dreaming, sex, and the fine art of doing nothing. Since 1995 he has lived in Venice, California, with his sweetheart and partner, Tim Miller. His fiction has appeared in the Boy Meets Boy anthology (St. Martin’s), the James White Review, and Aroused, an anthology edited by Karen Finley (Avalon). His journalism has appeared in numerous American publications, including Unzipped, IN Los Angeles, Arts & Understanding, San Antonio Current, and the Philadelphia Gay News.
SEAN MERIWETHER’S fiction has previously appeared in Best Gay Erotica 2001, Of the Flesh: Dangerous New Fiction, online in Suspect Thoughts, and in many other literary venues. He is currently working on a screenplay and a collection of short stories. He is founder and coeditor of VelvetMafia.com, publishing dangerous queer fiction and erotica. He lives in New York with his partner, photographer Jack Slomovits, and their two dogs, Sasha and Nik Nak. If you are interested in more of his work, stop by www.seanmeriwether.com.
MARSHALL MOORE, a North Carolina native, now lives in the San Francisco Bay Area. Among other things, he’s a shameless travel junkie and, like his fiction, he tends to turn up in interesting places. His work has appeared or is forthcoming in various periodicals and anthologies, most recently Of the Flesh: Dangerous New Fiction (Suspect Thoughts Press), Space and Time, Harrington Gay Men’s Fiction Quarterly, and Suspect Thoughts. His first novel, The Concrete Sky, is inching toward publication. He may be reached at marshallmoore@aol.com, or via his website, www.marshallmoore.net.
JAY NEAL: by day, a rocket scientist; by night, a bear pornographer. From his birth in 1956, he has been attracted to husky, hairy men; he’s written about it since 1998. With a Ph.D. in physics, he has worked on various NASA and commercial aerospace projects, publishing pseudonymous technical papers with remarkably silly titles. Pursuing an advanced degree in sex, he has published his “research” findings in American Bear and American Grizzly magazines, Tales from the Bear Cult, and Bearotica. He lives with his partner in suburban Washington, D.C., where they collaborate on experimental research with friends and guests.
JOHN ORCUTT grew up in Maine and Wyoming and attended college in Boston. He lived in San Francisco from 1989 to 1996 where most folks remember him holding court behind the counter at A Different Light. He was the manager of A Different Light in New York from 1996 to 1998. He has several published works of nonfiction written under a different name. He lives and works in Manhattan and Cherry Grove, Fire Island.
IAN PHILIPS is a flaming son of Sodom and a gentleman sadist who lives—not surprisingly—in San Francisco. He has collected “Harder” and other flowers of his own evil into a bouquet of paper and print called See Dick Deconstruct: Literotica for the Satirically Bent (AttaGirl Press). He welcomes e-mail at iphilips@aol.com or exploratory voyages to www.ianphilips.com.
ANDY QUAN, a Canadian living most recently in Sydney, Australia, happily makes his fourth appearance in the Best Gay Erotica series. His first collections of poetry, Slant, and short fiction, Calendar Boy, were released in North America in 2001; Calendar Boy will be published in Australia by Penguin in 2002. He is the coeditor of Swallowing Clouds: An Anthology of Chinese-Canadian Poetry, and his writings have appeared in many journals and anthologies. He hopes “Positive” turns you on and shakes you up. Visit him at www.andyquan.com.
J. D. RYAN lives a double life in the Deep South (land of the Southern Gentleman and the Bubbas), masquerading as a respectable businessman while releasing pent-up emotion by writing erotica. Armand Bettencourt in “Tiger Rag” bears more than a passing resemblance to his creator, who has been compared to a grumpy grizzly just wakened from a winter nap. Ryan admits that JT and Armand spring from a thwarted desire to direct a room full of glistening hard bodies. His work may also be seen in Bunkhouse, Honcho, In Touch, and in numerous U.S. and U.K. anthologies.
SIMON SHEPPARD is the author of Hotter Than Hell and Other Stories and the coeditor of both Rough Stuff: Tales of Gay Men, Sex, and Power and the forthcoming Rough Stuff 2, all from Alyson Books. His stories currently appear in The Best American Erotica 2002, The Mammoth Book of Best New Erotica, Friction 5: Best Gay Erotic Fiction, Best SM Erotica, Best Bisexual Erotica 2, Best Transgender Erotica, and The Burning Pen-, this is his seventh appearance in the Best Gay Erotica series. Just now he’s semihard at work on a nonfiction book, Kinkorama. Thanks go to Nol Simonse for helping with the research for “Saint Valentine Was a Martyr, You Know.” Sheppard can be reached at smutsmith@aol.com.
MEL SMITH is a single mom working as a locker room attendant at a high school. The mindlessness of the job revived her creativity, which was missing in action during her thirteen years in law enforcement. Her work has appeared in In Touch and Indulge magazines, and she will have a story appearing in Friction 5: Best Gay Erotica. Her stories are always about true love, even when that love does not fit into a tidy, traditional package. Her dream is to write full-time from home, live in the country, and find two bisexual men to make her little family complete.
MICHAEL STAMP’S earliest influences were the novels of Gordon Merrick and John Preston, so it’s not surprising that all of Stamp’s own gay erotica, including his S/M tales, have a decidedly romantic bent. His stories appear in the anthologies Best American Erotica 2002, Best Gay Erotica 2001, Best S/M Erotica, Casting Couch Confessions, Sex Toy Tales, Strange Bedfellows, the e-book Y2Kinky, and publications like Inches and In Touch. Stamp lives alone, at present, sharing his New Jersey home with his cat, but, being a hopeless romantic, hopes to one day find his soul mate. Mr. Right will have to like cats, and love sex.
MATT BERNSTEIN SYCAMORE is the editor of Tricks and Treats: Sex Workers Write About Their Clients. His writing has appeared in numerous publications, including Best American Erotica 2001, Best American Gay Fiction 3, and Best Gay Erotica 2000 and 2001. He is at work on a nonfiction anthology, Dangerous Families: Queer Writing on Surviving Abuse. He recently finished a novel, Pulling Taffy. He lives in San Francisco and can be contacted at tricksandtreats@hotmail.com
KARL VON UHL’S stories have appeared in Best Gay Erotica 2000 and 2001, Rough Stuff, and the forthcoming Bearotica and Tough Guys. He lives in Northern California. He is trustworthy, loyal, helpful, friendly, courteous, kind, obedient, cheerful, thrifty, brave, clean, reverent, and has fond memories of earning a merit badge in rifle shooting. He may be contacted at leathernk@hotmail.com.
JAMES WILLIAMS’S stories have been published in Advocate Men, Attitude, Black Sheets, Blue Food, International Leatherman, Sandmutopia Guardian, Spectator, and other magazines; in anthologies such as Best American Erotica of 1995 and Best American Erotica of 2001, edited by Susie Bright (Simon & Schuster), Best SM Erotica, edited by M. Christian (Black Books), Bitch Goddess, edited by Pat Califia and Drew Campbell (Greenery Press), Doing It for Daddy, edited by Pat Califia (Alyson), My Biggest O, edited by Jack Hart (Alyson), and SM Futures and SM Visions, both edited by Cecilia Tan (Richard Kasak Books and Circlet Press); and online in Mind Caviar. He was the subject of profile interviews in Different Loving, by Gloria Brame, Will Brame, and Jon Jacobs (Villard), and Sex: An Oral History, by Harry Maurer (Viking). He lives in the San Francisco Bay Area.
About the Editors
NEAL DRINNAN was born in Melbourne, Australia, somewhere in the 1960s and was dubiously educated at various (now defunct) government schools. At seventeen he abandoned his education and suburban family home for the lure of life’s more ephemeral things. He has worked in publishing for many years and has been a frequent contributor to a number of magazines. He is the author of three novels—Glove Puppet, Pussy’s Bow, and Quill—as well as The Rough Guide to Gay and Lesbian Australia. Drinnan’s writing has been considered scandalously provocative in some quarters, and if readers are shocked by the morality of his tales they should perhaps spare a thought for the author and his diligent research. While people bicker and argue queer politics on the Net, he’s at the coal-face of modern gay social intercourse. Drinnan is generally polite, well-spoken, and well-read (although not necessarily well-behaved) and, like vodka in tonic, he mixes freely and sometimes even glows in the dark.
RICHARD LABONTE has edited the Best Gay Erotica series since 1997, while living mostly in San Francisco and variously in West Hollywood and New York. The 2002 edition, however, was edited in very rural eastern Ontario, to the soothing background sounds of crickets, pond frogs, and assorted birds, rather than the cacophony of San Francisco trolley cars, Chelsea taxicab horns, or West Hollywood police helicopters. He now lives on a 200-acre communal farm with a mailbox an hour’s walk down the road; raised a great crop of turnips, green beans, squash, and tomatoes over his first summer at Marlborough Farm; and, after twenty years managing A Different Light Bookstore, is now catching up on his reading, while also reviewing books for Q-Syndicate and for Lambda Book Report and Publishers Weekly, and consulting with authors and publishers on writing and cover design. His queer-lit book review/news/views site, www.labonteonbooks.com, was launched at the end of 2001. He can be reached at tattyhill@hotmail.com.
Richard Labonte, Best Gay Erotica 2002
