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KARL VON UHL lives and writes in Northern California. His erotica has appeared in the Best Gay Erotica series since 2000, as well as in the anthologies Bearotica, Tough Guys, Rough Stuff, and the forthcoming Roughed Up. Hobbies include cataloguing squalidae and manufacturing small weapons. He can be reached at leathernk@hotmail.com and is currently searching for a ska band with an opening for an alto man.
About the Editors
RICHARD LABONTé has been editing the Best Gay Erotica series since 1997. He has read hundreds of submissions since he started, and he isn’t bored yet. He helped found A Different Light Bookstore in the Silverlake neighborhood of Los Angeles in 1979, and worked with the bookstore as bookcase builder, sales clerk, book buyer, manager, and eventually general manager—of its New York, West Hollywood, and San Francisco branches—until mid-2000. These days he divides his time between a 200-acre communal farm near Calabogie, Ontario (pop. 600), which he bought with several college friends in 1976 (“we were still hippies then, man”), and where hay, raspberries, apples, pumpkins, squash, cows, mosquitoes, black flies, and deep, deep snow are in season at various times of the year; and a home in Perth, Ontario (pop. 6,000), where he writes the Book Marks book review column for Q Syndicate, is a consulting editor to both Lambda Book Report and the Harrington Gay Men’s Fiction Quarterly, provides editorial consulting to publishers and freelance writers, and enjoys the fact that the bakery, bank, barber shop, chip wagon (“it’s a rural Eastern Canada thing”), churches (five of them), coffee shop, convenience store, curling rink, dollar store, drugstore, farmer’s market, grocery store, hardware store, health food store, hospital, library, pool hall, post office, used bookstore, and video rental store are all a five-minute walk, or less, from his front door—though he frequents neither the churches nor the pool hall. Except for the lack of fags, dykes, drag queens, trannies, tattoos, piercings, juice bars, taquerias, flower shops, gyms, and men in muscle tees walking down the sidewalk, he says, Perth is a lot like the Castro, where he lived from 1988 until he returned to Canada. Now, when not picking apples in Calabogie or walking everywhere in five minutes in Perth, he reads. Send queries or submissions for Best Gay Erotica 2004 to him at bge04@sympatico.ca.
MICHAEL ROWE is one of the three officially named literary protégés of the late, legendary American erotica writer and anthologist John Preston, who died from complications relating to AIDS in April 1994. He was born in Ottawa, Ontario, in 1962, and raised in Beirut, Havana, and Geneva, and is an award-winning journalist and essayist. A 1997 Canadian National Magazine Award finalist, he was the founding senior writer for Fab National magazine, and is currently a frequent contributor to The Advocate. He is the author of several books, including the groundbreaking study of censorship, pornography, and popular culture, Writing Below the Belt, and the critically acclaimed essay collection Looking for Brothers. A three-time Lambda Literary Award finalist, he is the editor of the anthologies Queer Fear and Queer Fear 2, as well as coeditor (with Thomas S. Roche) of the Cleis Press anthologies Sons of Darkness and Brothers of the Night. His own fiction is widely anthologized, and his first novel, Our Separate Night, is forthcoming from Arsenal Pulp Press in 2003. A member of PEN Canada, he lives in Toronto with his life-partner, Brian McDermid, and frequently appears on television to discuss issues pertaining to gay civil liberties and popular culture. He receives email at Mwriter35@aol.com, and his website is located at www.michaelrowe.com.
Richard Labonte, Best Gay Erotica 2003
