Best Gay Erotica 2012

ABOUT THE AUTHORS

ERIC K. ANDERSON is author of the novel Enough, and has published fiction in Chroma, Blithe House Quarterly, Ganymede , Velvet Mafia, and the anthologies From Boys to Men, Between Men 2, Brief Encounters and Best Gay Erotica 2011.

JACE BARTON is a twenty-five-year-old wannabe punk living in upstate New York. He has written a couple of plays (even had one performed!) and is always scribbling something down.

JAMIE FREEMAN (jamiefreeman.net) lives and writes in a small town in North Florida. More of his erotic fiction can be found in Daddies, College Boys, Muscle Men, Beautiful Boys, Black Fire, Video Boys and Homo Thugs. He has published a variety of genre fiction including romance, science fiction and horror.

DAVID HOLLY lives in Portland, Oregon. His books include Delicious Darkness, a darkly erotic collection of over-the-top gay fantasy stories. His stories have appeared in Best Gay Romance, Best Gay Erotica, Boy Crazy and many other publications. Find David Holly at facebook.com/david.holly2.

ROSCOE HUDSON is a creative writer and academic. When he is not hard at work revising his first novel or lifting weights at the gym, he’s usually watching porn—or writing it. He lives in Chicago.

KARDYMAN (drop--it.blogspot.com) is a fine arts graduate drawn to the tingle of creating comics. A prizewinner in his home country, Spain, his work has appeared in Gutter; he produces a sitcom/soap opera-ish gay online story, “Drop It.” “Touched” is his first worldwide publication, about which he is proud and loud.

DALE LAZAROV (dalelazarov.com) is the Chicago-based writer/editor of STICKY (drawn by Steve MacIsaac), MANLY (Amy Colburn) and NIGHTLIFE (Bastian Jonsson), gay erotic comics published by Bruno Gmünder Verlag. He is working on new gay erotic comic projects with Laura “Zel” Carboni, Chas Hunter, Alessio Slonimski, Foxy Andy, Diego Gomez and Mioki.

SHAUN LEVIN is a South African writer based in London. He is author, most recently, of Trees at a Sanatorium and Snapshots of The Boy, and of Seven Sweet Things and A Year of Two Summers. He edits the queer literary/arts journal, Chroma.

DAVID MAY (bydavidmay@comcast.net) lives in Seattle with his husband and two cats. He is author of two fiction collections, Madrugada and Butch Bottom & the Absent Daddy; a collection of nonfiction, A Nice Boy from a Good Family; and an advice column, “Cum What May,” for M4Mkink.com.

ANTHONY MCDONALD lives in England. He is the author of four novels: Adam, Blue Sky Adam, (both now available on Kindle), Orange Bitter, Orange Sweet and, this year, Getting Orlando. He has contributed stories to numerous anthologies on both sides of the Atlantic.

TONY PIKE’s erotic fiction has previously appeared in Vulcan and Zipper magazines in the United Kingdom, and in the anthologies Dorm Porn II, Boy Crazy and Best Gay Erotica 2011.

SIMON SHEPPARD is the Lammy Award–winning editor of Homosex, and the author of Sodomy!, Hotter Than Hell, In Deep and several other sex-drenched books. His work has also appeared in more than three hundred anthologies; astonishingly, this is his eighteenth appearance in the BGE series. He hangs out smuttily at simonsheppard.com.

RAFAELITO V. SY (rafsy.com) was born in Manila. He earned his BA from Tufts University and his MFA in creative writing from Cornell University. His 2005 novel, Potato Queen, is about the segregationist relationship between Asians and Caucasians in the San Francisco gay community.

MATTILDA BERNSTEIN SYCAMORE (mattildabernsteinsyc-amore.com) is most recently the author of a sassy and salacious novel, So Many Ways to Sleep Badly. Her newest anthology, Why Are Faggots So Afraid of Faggots?: Flaming Challenges to Masculinity, Objectification, and the Desire to Conform, will be out just in time for Valentine’s Day 2012.

DIRK VANDEN (dirkvanden.net), born Richard Dale Fullmer, grew up a Mormon in the small town of Vernal, high in the Rocky Mountains of northeastern Utah. From 1969–1973, he published seven gay novels (including the All trilogy), several of which are still available on the web at outrageous prices.