Meet the Reviewers
Kent L. Brintnall is an assistant
professor of Religious Studies and an affiliate professor of Women's and Gender
Studies at the University of North Carolina at Charlotte. His first book, Ecce
Homo: The Male-Body-in-Pain as Redemptive Figure, will be released by
University of Chicago Press this fall. He is currently working on a comparative
project involving Christian mystical texts and avant-garde pornographic novels.
In his free time, he watches an absurd amount of television and tries to keep
his two dogs as happy as possible.
David
Pratt won a 2011 Lambda Literary Award for his 
debut novel, "Bob the
Book," published by Chelsea Station Editions. He has published short
fiction in Christopher Street, The James White Review, Blithe House Quarterly,
Chelsea Station (November 2011), and in several anthologies. He has directed
and performed his own work for the theater, including appearances in New York
City at the Cornelia Street Cafe, Dixon Place, HERE Arts Center, the Flea
Theater and the New York International Fringe Festival. He has collaborated
frequently with Rogerio M. Pinto, and he was the first director of work by
Canadian playwright John Mighton. David holds an MFA in Creative Writing from
the New School. His short story collection, "My Movie," is due from
Chelsea Station in winter 2012. He is also working on a second novel and the
book of a new musical.
Dan Stone is the author of Tricky Serum: An Elixir of
Poems (Lethe Press, 2011) and the gay romantic fantasy, The Rest Of Our Lives: A Novel (Lethe Press, 2009). His fiction, poetry and essays have also appeared in Focus on the Fabulous: Colorado GLBT Voices, Charmed Lives: Gay Spirit in Storytelling, White Crane Journal, A&U Magazine, Astropoetica, Mostly Maine, Bay Windows, Gents, Badboys, and Barbarians, New Gay Male Poetry, and Rebel Yell: Stories by Contemporary Southern Gay Authors.
He is the co-creator with artist Cher Odum of a line of original greeting cards/poetry art and author of the spiritual blog, The Shower Channel. He can be reached via his website: www.firstadream.com.
George Seaton's short stories have appeared in Blue Boy, In Touch (when the publication was gay-oriented), Out Front, the ezines Nossa Morte and Apollo's Lyre. His novella, "Big Diehl," was included in the anthology, "Esprit de Corps," and as a stand-alone ebook published by MLR Press. His short, "Metamorphosis," will be included in MLR's upcoming, "Illustrated Men." His novel, "Big Diehl-The Road Home," is forthcoming from MLR Press. Seaton graduated from the University of Colorado with a major in history. Upon his retirement from the City and County of Denver as Director of Purchasing, he has settled into the life of a full-time writer. He lives in Denver with his partner of twenty-eight years; his beloved Malamute, Sarah; and his horse, Shy. 
Jerry Wheeler, is editor of Tented: Gay Erotic Tales from Under the Big Top a 2011 Lammy Finalist for Best Gay Erotica, and the forthcoming Riding the Rails for Bold
Strokes Books, Jerry has appeared in many anthologies, including Law
of Desire, Best Gay Romance 2010, Bears in the Wild, I Do! and I Like It Like That as
well as online in Sean Meriwether’s webzine, Velvet Mafia. You can visit him online at www.jerrywheeleronline.com or contact him at pfloydian191@hotmail.com.
William Holden lives in Cambridge Massachusetts. His writing career spans over 10 years with more than 40 short stories of gay erotica and romance. He has served as fiction editor for RFD Magazine, authored 5 bibliographies on LGBT literature, and has written various encyclopedia articles on the history of gay fiction and literature. His first book, "A Twist of Grimm" is a Lambda Literary Finalist for Best Gay Erotica. William's second collection, "Words to Die By," is forthcoming from Bold Strokes Books. You can contact Bill at wholden2@mac.com or visit his website at www.williamholdenwrites.com
Gavin
Atlas grew up in New York and went to college in Washington, DC. He has been a
bookseller for Olsson’s and Waldenbooks and briefly worked in publicity for Put
nam and Viking. He writes reviews for the Amazon Vine program and copyedits for
various publishers. Under other names he writes literary and humor short
stories, but as Gavin Atlas is an author of erotica. His work has
appeared in five anthologies, and he has had several shorts published
electronically including “La Playita.” His collection, The Boy Can’t Help
It, is forthcoming. Gavin now lives in Houston. Say hi or hit him up for a free
story at GavinAtlas@sbcglobal.net
Craig Laurance Gidney is the author of the Lammy nominated short story collection, "Sea, Swallow Me and Other Stories." He lives and writes in Washington, DC. His website is http://craiglaurancegidney.wordpress.com/
Wayne Courtois is author of the memoir A Report from
Winter www.reportfromwintiner.com and the novel My name is Rand. His
fiction and nonfiction have appeared in anthologies, including Best Gay Erotica
and The Lost Library: Gay Classics Rediscovered, and in journals such as The
Greensboro Review and Harrington Gay Men’s Literary Quarterly. He lives
in Kansas City, Missouri with his partner Ralph Seligman. Contact him at waynewrite@gmail.com
