Stephen Albrow writes dirty stories for dirty people with dirty minds. His obsession with meat dates back to his early teens when he was force-fed raw beaver by the nuns of his parish. As a result of this highly nutritional diet, he has grown to over seven feet tall and he has enormous trouble getting under low bridges or taking part in limbo dances. His stories, meat-based or otherwise, have appeared in many top-shelf publications. Get onto tiptoe and pull down a copy of Torso, Options, Cherry Boys, or Knave to check out some more of his filth.

Tom Bacchus' stories have been published in Hunt, In Touch, Honcho, Mandate and other gay men's erotic magazines. He came to some notoriety with the release of his hand-painted zine PUP, for men who need to be on a leash. His first two collected works, Bone and Rahm, were published by Bad Boy. Rahm is also available in Spanish from Boys Press as Sueños de Hombre. Fiction anthologies that include Bacchus' short stories are: Happily Ever After: Erotic Fairy Tales for Men, The Best American Erotica 1998, Stallions and Other Studs, and Obsessed: A Flesh and the Word Collection of Gay Erotic Memoirs. Bacchus' visual art MetaPorn has been exhibited in New York, Los Angeles, and San Francisco. His safe sex video "Scenic Route" was shown at gay film festivals in San Francisco, New York, and Milan.

Steve Berman is constantly being approached by sweet vegetarian boys who hope to redeem him. Of course when they discover he keeps a book on cannibalism in his kitchen, they tend to run away. While not out searching for the perfect dinner date, Steve keeps occupied by writing. His first collection, Trysts: A Triskaidecollection of Queer and Weird Stories, was nominated for two Spectrum Awards. He lives in New Jersey.

M. Christian's work can be seen in The Best American Erotica, Best Gay Erotica, Best Lesbian Erotica, Best Fetish Erotica, and over 150 other books, magazines, and websites. He's the editor of over 12 anthologies, including The Burning Pen, Love Under Foot (with Greg Wharton), Best S/M Erotica, and many others. He's the author of three collections, including Dirty Words (gay erotica) and Speaking Parts (lesbian erotica). For more info, check out his website.

Jerry Erwin was born in Chicago, Illinois. He attended numerous colleges and visited several countries for all but forgotten reasons. He has had short stories published in literary magazines and earned some money writing film scripts that never got made, for people he'd only feel creatively involved with if he had strangled them to death in their sleep. His work-an integration of humor, sexuality, and romantic dysfunction-takes the reader on a journey far from ordinary day-to-day life, yet is grounded in the moment-to-moment reality of the most intimate human emotions. Apparently.

Jim Gladstone is the author of The Big Book of Misunderstanding. A creative consultant and writer, Gladstone's wide-ranging cultural commentary and criticism has appeared in many publications, including The New York Times Book Review, Billboard, SPIN, Lambda Book Report, and a host of major daily newspapers, including The Chicago Tribune, San Francisco Chronicle, and The Atlanta Constitution. His fiction and personal essays have been anthologized and published in several literary magazines and books. Gladstone's writing has also graced tampon packages, encouraged the consumption of fresh turkey products, and been declaimed by the world's most popular red and yellow spokescandies. Educated at Yale College and the University of Pennsylvania, Gladstone's checkered past includes stints as a devoted bookseller, library staff member, radio commentator, writing teacher, and leotard-clad Playboy Club dancer.

Peter Huston is a former newspaper reporter, the author of three published books and many magazine articles. "The Meat Forest and the Wine Lake" combines many of his interests. He spent over three years teaching English in Taiwan and holds a bachelor's degree in Asian studies and enjoys Chinese cooking. During that time he ate everything from cats to jellyfish to pig's ears to squid. At one time, he intended to pursue a Ph.D. in Chinese history, but a disastrous relationship with a Chinese ex-wife, now a professional chef, interfered. (Who, last time she called wanted to know how to cook a bear, believe it or not.) Lately he's been working on science fiction and had two dates this weekend. One with a Chinese woman who likes Greek food, and the other with a White redneck woman who once ate a raccoon. (Actually she's quick to clarify that she only ate part of the raccoon.) He is a graduate of the Odyssey Writer's Workshop and this is his first fiction sale. A vegan woman he was involved with once asked him to be a reference for a job with the media relations department of People for the Ethical Treatment of Animals. When told of this first sale another Chinese woman in his life commented, "You should not treat Chinese history this way. I feel as if you have used a Ming Dynasty vase for an ashtray."

Debra Hyde's erotic fiction has most recently appeared in Ripe Fruit: Erotica for Well-Seasoned Lovers, Body Check: Erotic Lesbian Sports Stories, Herotica 7, and Of the Flesh. She is a regular contributor to Scarlet Letters, maintains Pursed Lips, a sex-in-arts weblog, with upcoming stories in Erotic Travel Tales 2, Noirotica 4, and Vixens and Villains. She can personally attest to the delicacy of Pennsylvania German meats, including Pig's Stomach. Other savory moments, however, must be kept under wraps.

Susannah Indigo is the editor-in-chief of Clean Sheets Magazine, and also the editor and founder of Slow Trains Literary Journal. She is the author of Oysters Among Us and the co-editor of the anthology From Porn to Poetry. Her writing has appeared in many anthologies, including The Best American Erotica, Herotica, The Mammoth Book of Best New Erotica, Of the Flesh: Dangerous New Fiction, and every year thus far of Best Women's Erotica.

Bianca James gave up vegetarianism around the same time she took up drinking, smoking and kinky sex. Her smutty writings have appeared in Barely Legal, Pervgrrl.org, and New York's sleaze bible Happyland. She is currently living the life of a lady vagabond in Kyoto, Japan, where cigarettes are cheap and everything else is expensive.

Lisa Montanarelli lives in San Francisco. Her sometimes pseudonymous stories appear in Best Bisexual Women's Erotica, Best Fetish Erotica, Best Woman's Erotica 2002, Mammoth Book of Best New Erotica 2002, and the forthcoming Pills, Thrills, Chills, and Heartache. Marlowe & Co. published her book The First Year-Hepatitis C, co-authored with Cara Bruce, in 2002. Lisa is also an editor at VenusOrVixen.com and has written for numerous magazines, ezines and newspapers, including AFP.com (Agence France-Presse), AINews.com (Adult Industry News), HIVInSite.com, GettingIt.com, Good Vibrations Magazine, and San Francisco Bay Guardian.

Marshall Moore wants you to know "The Glue Factory" is in no way autobiographical. Although at the time he wrote the story, there were several noisy neighbors he'd have happily turned into mucilage. He lives with his partner in the San Francisco Bay Area. His debut novel The Concrete Sky will be (or was, depending on when you read this) published by Southern Tier in May 2003. For more information about Marshall and his work, please visit his website.

David Nickle's stories have appeared in numerous magazines and anthologies, including The Year's Best Fantasy and Horror, the Northern Frights series, Tesseracts, and magazines such as Cemetery Dance, TransVersions, and On Spec. He's a past winner of the Bram Stoker Award (with Edo van Belkom, for their gastronomically unpleasant tale "Rat Food") and the Aurora Award (with Karl Schroeder, for their anti-Christmas rant "The Toy Mill"). His novel The Claus Effect (again, with Karl Schroeder) is available from Tesseract Books.

Ian Philips is a voracious carbovore who lives in modest infamy with his favorite source of protein, that dynamo of publishing, editing, and writing, Greg Wharton. His first collection of erotic fiction, See Dick Deconstruct: Literotica for the Satirically Bent (AttaGirl Press), won a Lambda Literary Award. His second collection, Satyriasis: Literotica2, will be published by Suspect Thoughts Press in the fall of 2003. If you like the taste of this story, feel free to gnaw on other word-laden dishes at his website.

Former Director of Communications for the National Meat Association, Jeremy Russell is a widely published, award-winning freelance writer. His work has appeared in more than a dozen publications, including American Book Review, New York Press, and the San Francisco Bay Guardian. His fiction has been published in Cthulhu Sex Magazine, Cyber Age Adventures, and The Mammoth Book of Legal Thrillers.

Lawrence Schimel, born in New York City in 1971 and currently living in Madrid, Spain, has been a vegetarian for 18 years and a writer for 14. He is the author of the story collections His Tongue: Erotic Stories (North Atlantic) and The Drag Queen of Elfland (Circlet Press), and is the editor of numerous anthologies, including Kosher Meat (Sherman Asher), The Mammoth Book of Gay Erotica (Carroll & Graf), Switch Hitters: Lesbians Write Gay Male Erotica and Gay Men Write Lesbian Erotica (with Carol Queen; Cleis Press) and the Lambda Literary Award-winning PoMoSexuals: Challenging Assumptions About Gender and Sexuality (with Carol Queen; Cleis Press), among many others. More info at his website.

Lukas Scott put the Wild back into the West with his first novel, Hot On The Trail (Idol, 2000), and has peddled further smut with his short stories "There's More To Love (Than Boy Fucks Girl)" and "Clone Zone" at Mindcaviar.com, "Scar" at Ophelia's Muse, "Moon" in Buttmen (WestBeach Books 2001), and "Chasing The Egg" in Full Body Contact (Alyson, 2002). He has been a university lecturer, theatre director and actor, fashion model, television and film extra, gay male nun, counsellor and safer sex worker. Lukas is a vegetarian-the only meat he eats is attached. Find out more at his website.

Helena Settimana lives in Toronto, Canada. Her short fiction, poetry, and essays have appeared on the web at The Erotica Readers and Writers Association, Scarlet Letters, Clean Sheets and Dare. In print, her work has been featured in Best Women's Erotica 2001 and 2002, Erotic Travel Tales, Best Bisexual Women's Erotica, (all Cleis Press), From Porn to Poetry: Clean Sheets Celebrates the Erotic Mind (Samba Mountain Press), Prometheus Vol. 36, Desires (Venus Book Club), Shameless: Womens' Intimate Erotica (Seal Press), the soon-to-be-released Herotica 7 (Down There Press), and The Mammoth Book of Best New Erotica (Carroll and Graf 2002). She moonlights as Features Editor at The Erotica Readers and Writers Association.

Simon Sheppard is the author of Hotter Than Hell and Other Stories and the forthcoming non-fiction book Kinkorama, as well as co-editor, with M. Christian, of Rough Stuff and Roughed Up. His next short fiction collection, In Deep, will be published by Alyson Books in 2003, and his work also appears in over 75 other books, including several editions of The Best American Erotica and all but one of Best Gay Erotica. He loiters beefily at his website.

Mel Smith's stories have appeared in or are scheduled to appear in the magazines In Touch and Indulge, online at Velvet Mafia, Suspect Thoughts, and Peacock Blue, and in the print anthologies Best Gay Erotica 2002, Friction 5, Friction 6, Best of Friction, Full Body Contact, The Best American Erotica, Wanderlust, Latin Boys and Every Which Way. She is a single mom and, on the surface, appears quite normal.

Cover Designer/Photographer:
Boston-based designer/photographer/writer/consultant/fuckup Shane Luitjens brings a wide range of experience to his work, including award-winning interactive design for Monster.com and drugstore.com as well as founding and directing HOOK, the nation's only harm reduction publication by, for, and about male sexworkers. He is also the poetry editor for suspect thoughts: a journal of subversive writing. For further information on his writing and photography, surf here. For further information on his design, point and click. Joy everyday.

Editor:
Greg Wharton is the publisher of Suspect Thoughts Press, editor of the webzine suspect thoughts: a journal of subversive writing, and the erotica editor for Velvet Mafia. He is also the editor of the anthologies Law of Desire: Tales of Gay Male Lust and Obsession (co-edited with Ian Philips, Alyson Books, 2004), The Love That Dare Not Speak Its Name: Essays on Queer Sexuality and Desire (Boheme Press, 2003), Love Under Foot: An Erotic Celebration of Feet (co-edited with M. Christian, Southern Tier Editions-Haworth Press, 2003), and Of the Flesh: Dangerous New Fiction (Suspect Thoughts Press, 2001). Noted short fiction publications include the anthologies Balls Without a Chain, Best of Friction, Best Fetish Erotica, Best S/M Erotica, Buttmen, Friction: Best Gay Erotica Volume 5, Quickies 2, Roughed Up, Shadows of the Night, and Vixens & Villains. Johnny Was and Other Tall Tales, a collection of his erotic short fiction, will be released in 2003 by Suspect Thoughts Press.

The Best of the Best Meat Erotica

release: November 2002
erotica / fiction anthology
softcover, 5.5X8.5
248 pages
$16.95
0-9710846-1-0