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JEFF MANN’s books include two collections of poetry, Bones Washed with Wine and On the Tongue; a book of personal essays, Edge; a novella, Devoured, included in Masters of Midnight: Erotic Tales of the Vampire; a collection of poetry and memoir, Loving Mountains, Loving Men; and a volume of short fiction, A History of Barbed Wire, winner of a Lambda Literary Award. He teaches creative writing at Virginia Tech in Blacks-burg, Virginia.
DAVID MAY first made his mark writing for Drummer and other gay skin magazines in the 1980s, and is the author of Madrugada: A Cycle of Erotic Fictions. His work has appeared in numerous magazines and anthologies, including Mentsch, Kosher Meat, Flesh and the Word 3, Best of Best Gay Erotica 2, Hot Gay Erotica, and Best Gay Erotica 2007. He lives in Seattle.
JAY NEAL’s bio-poem:
I sing the body hirsute and husky,
The legions of those I love have girth and I engirth them,
They will not let me off till I go with them, write of them.
The expression of the well-made bear appears not only in his beard;
It is in his walk, the carriage of his neck, the flex of his knees,
The curve of his belly, the volume of his chest.
This is my story: Mouth, tongue, lips, nose, eyes, ears,
Strong shoulders, manly beard, hips, inward and outward round,
Man-balls, manroot, strong set of thighs well carrying the trunk above.
To see him pass conveys as much as the best poem, or more,
I linger to see his back, his ass, the hair on the back of his neck.
Examine these limbs—they shall be stript that you may see them.
I bear witness.
KEN PANADERO made his fiction debut with the short story “Lust on the Lawn,” which was included in the anthology Dorm Porn from Alyson Publications. A long-time resident of Japan, he also wrote the gay and lesbian chapters of the fourth and fifth editions of the Time Out Tokyo travel guide.
ROB ROSEN is the author of the critically acclaimed novel, Sparkle: The Queerest Book You’ll Ever Love. His short stories have appeared in more than fifty anthologies to date, and his erotic fiction can frequently be found in the pages of Men and Freshmen magazines. Please visit him at his website, www.therobrosen.com. or email him at robrosen@therobrosen.com.
SIMON SHEPPARD is the editor of the Lambda award-winning anthology Homosex: Sixty Years of Gay Erotica and the recent Leathermen, and the author of In Deep: Erotic Stories, Kinkorama: Dispatches from the Front Lines of Perversion, Sex Parties 101, and the award-winning Hotter Than Hell and Other Stories. His work also appears in more than two hundred and fifty anthologies, including many editions of The Best American Erotica and Best Gay Erotica. He writes the syndicated column “Sex Talk” and the online serial “The Dirty Boys Club,” and hangs out at www.simonsheppard.com.
DON SHEWEY has published three books about theater and written articles for numerous publications, including the New York Times, the Village Voice, Esquire, and Rolling Stone. His erotic writing has been anthologized in numerous anthologies, including The Mammoth Book of New Gay Erotica, Best of the Best Gay Erotica, Male Lust, The Politics of Masculinity, Boy-friends from Hell, The Young and the Hung, Hard at Work, and Sex by the Book. His 1991 “X-rated” interview with Madonna for the Advocate was syndicated around the world to nineteen countries in eleven languages. He grew up in a trailer park on a dirt road in Waco, Texas, and currently lives in midtown Manhattan halfway between Trump Tower and Carnegie Hall. An archive of his writing can be found online at donshewey.com.
JAY STARRE resides on English Bay in Vancouver, Canada, and writes erotic fiction stories for gay men’s magazines including Men and Torso. Jay has also written gay fiction for more than forty-five anthologies, including Best Gay Romance 2008, Best Gay Bondage Erotica, Travelrotica, Manhandled, and Bear Lust.
KARL TAGGART has been writing erotica for several years while working a day job at an insurance company. They have no idea a porn writer lurks in their midst. Karl’s stories have appeared in Men magazine as well as the anthologies Friction 5, 6 and 7, Country Boys, Manhandled, and, in German, Spritztouren .
JAN VANDER LAENEN lives in Brussels, Belgium, where he works as an art historian and translator (Dutch, French, and Italian). He is also the author of eight collections of short stories, of plays, and of screenplays that have attracted keen interest especially abroad. A romantic comedy, Oscar Divo, and a thriller, The Card Game, are in the hands of a competent producer in Hollywood, while the collections The Butler and Poète Maudit are eliciting accolades in Italy.
ABOUT THE EDITOR
RICHARD LABONTÉ reads and reviews many books, reads and edits many, many short stories and essays for assorted anthologies, and lives with his furry but not Bearish husband Asa on Bowen Island, British Columbia. Contact him at tatty-hill@gmail.com.
Copyright 2008 by Richard Labonté.
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“Circulation Cub” © 2008 by Shane Allison. “Substantial Terms” © 2008 by Dale Chase, first appeared in a different version in Men magazine, July 1998. “Digger” © 2008 by Hank Edwards, reprinted with the author’s permission from American Bear, Issue 60. “Mr. Bear’s Birthday Bash” © 2008 by Doug Harrison. “Maul Santa” © 2003 by Jude Gray, reprinted with the author’s permission from American Bear, Issue 58. “White Meat” © 2008 by Daniel W. Kelly. “Justin Gold and the Three Bears: An Erotic Fairy Tale” © 1996 by Michael Lassell, reprinted with the author’s permission from Happily Ever After: Erotic Fairy Tales for Men, edited by Michael Ford (Richard Kasak Books/Badboy, 1996). “Leather-Bear Appetites” © 2008 by Jeff Mann. “Bear’s Head Hall: A Semi-Gothic Romance” © 2008 by David May. “Waking Up Bear” © 2008 by Jay Neal. “Aooooo” © 2008 by Ken Panadero. “Lions and Tigers and Bears, Oh Yeah!” © 2008 by Rob Rosen. “Bear-Assed” © 2001 by Simon Sheppard, reprinted with the author’s permission from Tales from the Bear Cult, edited by Mark Hemry (Palm Drive Publishing, 2001). “Conference Call” © 2008 by Don Shewey. “Ursine Knight” © 2008 by Jay Starre. “Into the Woods” © 2008 by Karl Taggart. “A Glass of Cognac” © 2008 by Jan Vander Laenen.
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