Lawrence Ytzhak Braithwaite is the author of the novels Wigger and Ratz are Nice (PSP) (Alyson). His work concerns the lives of the working-class in his town of Victoria, BC. His writing has received The Canada Council of the Arts writing award and Victoria has honoured him with Best Emerging Writer. His recent work has appeared in Maka: Diasporic Juks, Best Gay Erotica 99 and 2000, Red Zone: Victoria's street peoples' zine, Fernwood's Sleeping Dragon, and Fourteen Hills (San Francisco State Literary). He has also performed at Lollapalooza, National Black Arts Festival, Prose Acts & Scout Gang Up, Incommunicado Books, North American Bi Conference 2001, and Kooteny School of Writing. Braithwaite's work will be soon appearing in The Harrington Gay Men's Quarterly, Blue Prints: An Anthology of Black British Columbian Literature and Orature (ed. by Wayde Compton). He lives in a fugitive bunker in the Fernwood district of Victoria, BC.
Cara Bruce is editor of Good Vibrations Magazine, Venus or Vixen, Viscera, Best Bisexual Women's Erotica, and the forthcoming Obsessed: Fetish Erotica. She is co-author of The First Year: Hepatitis C (Marlowe & Co., Feb 2002). Her fiction has appeared in tons of anthologies, including Best American Erotica, Best Women's Erotica, Mammoth Best of the Year Erotica, Pills, Chills & Thrills, and many, many more. She lives in San Francisco with her condom eating dog.
Hertzan Chimera fiction has infected the internet like an rash for a number of years now. 2001 sees the EraserHead Press of Arizona release the 100,000 word Hertzan Chimera novel SZMONHFU, the body-warping horror-sex prequel-sequel to his legendary 1989 novel Red Hedz. 2002 sees the release of the 80,000 word sci-fi mindfuck United States. 2003 and we are talking the experimental 100,000 word novel Ghost Town.
M. Christian is the author of over 100 published short stories, his work being found in Friction, Best Lesbian Erotica, Best Gay Erotica, Best of Best Gay Erotica, Best American Erotica, Best Transexual Erotica, Best Bisexual Erotica, and many other books and magazines. He's the editor of over seven anthologies, including The Burning Pen, Best S/M Erotica, and Rough Stuff 1 & 2 (with Simon Sheppard). A collection of his gay men's erotic short stories, Dirty Words, is available from Alyson Books—and a collection of his lesbian short stories, Speaking Parts, is coming next year (also from Alyson Books). The only thing he likes better than writing is sex. Check out his website for more info.
Wayne Courtois lives in Kansas City, Missouri, where queer life is thriving. He can be emailed at Waynerman@aol.com.
doll yoko has been working with new media since 1984 as an arts manager, film and video maker, curator, corporate geisha girl, cyberfeminist, puppet mistress, and ghost. Her lived research has crystallised in many creative collaborations including a novel FleshMeat, a bottomless pond of dead girls in dollspace, a counter spectre to globalisation in Los Días y Las Noches de los Muertos, the subatomic decoherence of Soft Accidents, and the streaming world of Liquid_Nation.
Jamie Joy Gatto is a bisexual activist from New Orleans. She is editor-in-chief of Mind Caviar. Her erotic work has appeared in dozens of projects including Best Bisexual Erotica 1 & 2, Best SM Erotica, Unlimited Desires, Guilty Pleasures, and many more. Her first collection, Sex Noir, will be published in 2002 (Circlet). Her first ebook of erotic flash fiction, Suddenly Sexy, will be out in 2001, as well as a handbound limited edition chapbook of original poetry, Unveiling Venus.
Beth Greenwood's stories can be seen in the anthologies My Lover, My Friend, Sweetlife, and Faster Pussycats. As with the character in this story, she's not all that she seems to be.
Whenever possible, Debra Hyde writes erotica that challenges a reader's boundaries. Her fiction has appeared in Best Women's Erotica 2001, Herotica 7, and Strange Bedfellows, with upcoming appearances in Best Year's Mammoth Erotica, Erotic Travel Tales, and Noirotica 4. She writes a column about books (erotic, natch) for Scarlet Letters, maintains the sexuality weblog Pursed Lips, and looks to expand her own boundaries as often as possible.
Francisco Ibañez-Carrasco, born in Santiago de Chile, migrated to Vancouver, B.C. in 1985, where he acquired his HIV in 1986, his Canadian citizenship in 1991, his doctorate in Education from Simon Fraser University in 1999, and a long drawn appetite for writing. His short stories "Hockey Night in Canada" and "Chameleon" have appeared in Arts and Understanding and on-line in suspect thoughts: a journal of subversive writing. "Hurt Me, Amor Mio" and "Strictly Professional" have been included in Contra/Diction (Arsenal Pulp Press, 1998) and Best Gay Erotica 2000 (Cleis Press). His first novel "Flesh Wounds and Purple Flowers: The Cha-Cha Years" was published by Arsenal Pulp Press in 2001.
Susannah Indigo is the Editor-in-Chief of Clean Sheets Magazine and the editor of Slow Trains literary journal. Her writing has appeared in many anthologies, including The Best American Erotica, and she is also a contributor to Salon Magazine. See her Web site for more information.
Maxim Jakubowski lives in London where he spends his life between books, CDs, and films. He is known for his erotic thrillers and bestselling Mammoth anthologies of erotica. His next novel will be Kiss Me Sadly. He is a regular broadcaster and newspaper columnist in his other life, as well as running a couple of film and literary festivals.
Sean Meriwether is founder and editor of Outsider Ink and co-editor of Velvet Mafia. His work has appeared in Best Gay Erotica 2001 and 2002, has been online in suspect thoughts: a journal of subversive writing and a number of other literary venues. Sean 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, read him here.
Marshall Moore is the author of the forthcoming novel The Concrete Sky. He is a North Carolina expat who lives in the San Francisco Bay Area. He collects various types of ink: tattoos, passport stamps, etc. For more information about Marshall, the novel, his short fiction, and book reviews, please visit his website.
Ian Philips is a sweet-acting Sodomite and gentleman Sadist. His literate filth has strutted the boards in Best Gay Erotica, Best of the Best Gay Erotica, and Best Transgender Erotica. It has also shimmered in the brilliant aether at www.suspectthoughts.com. (Thank you, Brother Word Wanton!) And now he's housing his finest in a bookish bordello he calls See Dick Deconstruct: Literotica for the Satirically Bent (AttaGirl Press).
Carol Queen got a doctorate in sexology so she could impart more realistic detail to her smut. She lives in San Francisco, where she works at Good Vibrations and writes. For more, including a bibliography of her many writings, see carolqueen.com.
Thomas S. Roche has written over 100 published short stories and 200 published articles. His books include the Noirotica series of erotic crime-noir anthologies, the short story collection Dark Matter, and the forthcoming crime novel Violent Angel.
Simon Sheppard is the author of Hotter Than Hell and Other Stories and the co-editor, with M. Christian, of Rough Stuff: Tales of Gay Men, Sex, and Power and the upcoming Rough Stuff 2. His work has also appeared in The Best American Erotica 2002, Best Gay Erotica 2002, the Noirotica series, Bending the Landscape: Horror, and wherever else fine smut is purveyed, and he's currently at work on a nonfiction book, Kinkorama. He lives, uneasily, in San Francisco.
Poetry and short stories by horehound stillpoint can be found in many anthologies, including Out in the Castro, Poetry Nation; Tough Guys; Sex Spoken Here; Poetry Slam; Quickies; and Rough Stuff. He is working-under the name Greg Nott-on a new play, "Tenderfoot and the Gutter Guru."
Emanuel Xavier hustled his way into the literary scene with a poetry collection, Pier Queen (1997), and novel, Christ-Like (1999).
Cover Artist: Casey McKee's printing of his images is quite unique to the photographic world. Rather than printing onto photographic paper, as is most common, McKee uses a liquid photographic emulsion to print onto unconventional surfaces such as wood, metal, glass, and found objects. This allows him to print in a much larger scale than normal and attain the aesthetic quality that he finds appropriate with his imagery. Artist information can be found here.
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 the editor of the anthologies
The Best of the Best Meat Erotica (Suspect Thoughts Press, 2002),
Law of Desire: Tales of Gay Male Lust and Obsession (co-edited with Ian Philips, Alyson Books, 2003),
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.
Of The Flesh:
Dangerous New Fiction
release: October 2001
erotica/fiction anthology
softcover, 5.5X8.5
264 pages
$16.95
0-9710846-0-2
