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ck Alexander
Nick Alexander was born in the seaside town of Margate, UK on March 31st 1964.
He has four brothers including two present on the web Matthew Alexander, and Gregory Alexander who, are both painters, as was his father, Chris. He studied in the Midlands and also lived in Cambridge UK before moving to France, where, with the exception of a brief stint in New York he lives today.
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Neil Bartlett
Neil Bartlett, O.B.E. (born 1958) is one of Britain's most renowned and innovative theatre artists. He is a director, performer, translator, and writer. His novels include Who Was That Man: A Present for Mr. Oscar Wilde (1988), Ready to Catch Him Should He Fall (1992), and Mr. Clive and Mr. Page (1996).<more>


Paul Burston
Paul Burston was born in Yorkshire, raised in South Wales and now lives in London. He is the author of several books, including the critically acclaimed novels Shameless, Star People, and Lovers & Losers. A journalist and broadcaster, his work has appeared in The Times, The Guardian, The Independant, The Sunday Times, Time Out and on Channel 4. He is a frequent contributor to TV and radio.<more>


Daniel Allen Cox
Daniel Allen Cox is a Canadian author, columnist, and former sex worker.
Daniel is the author of the acclaimed novel Shuck (Arsenal Pulp Press, 2008) and the novella Tattoo This Madness In (Dusty Owl Press, 2006), which was short-listed for the 2006 Expozine Alternative Press Awards, Best English Book. His stories and essays have appeared in the anthologies Second Person Queer (Arsenal Pulp Press, 2009) and Year of the Thief (Thieves Jargon Press, 2006), as well as in numerous magazines.<more>


Hugh Fleetwood
Hugh Fleetwood is a writer and a painter. Born in the U.K., he spent his early adult life in Italy and now lives in London. He has published twenty-two books to date, including novels, collections of short stories and a travel book. One of his novels - The Girl Who Passed For Normal - won the John Llewylln Rhys Memorial Prize; another, The Order of Death, was made into a film starring Harvey Keitel and John Lydon (a.k.a. Johnny Rotten). <more>

Patrick Gale
Patrick Gale has written over ten novels, the most recent of which, Notes from an Exhibition, has become a bestseller thanks to its being picked up by the Richard and Judy Book Club. Rough Music, A Sweet Obscurity and Friendly Fire, are beginning to win him a European following thanks to successful translations into French and Dutch. <more>

Lee Houck
Lee Houck was born in Chattanooga, Tennessee and now lives in Queens, NY. His writing appears in several journals and queer anthologies, and in Collection, a book of his own essays and excerpts. His other work includes original pieces for theater seen in Vermont, Tennessee and in New York City, art installations for the Musee de Monoian, and poetry in the Magnetic Poetry Calendar. He has worked with Jennifer Miller's Circus AMOK! for many, many seasons. <more>

David Llewellyn
David Llewellyn was born in Pontypool, Wales, in 1978. He is the author of 'Eleven', published by Seren in 2006, and 'Torchwood: Trace Memory', to be published by BBC Books in March 2008. His next novel, 'Everything Is Sinister' will be published by Seren in May 2008. <more>

Armistead Maupin
Armistead Maupin was born in Washington, D.C., in1944 but grew up in Raleigh, North Carolina. A graduate of the University of North Carolina, he served as a naval officer in the Mediterranean and with the River Patrol Force in Vietnam. 
Maupin worked briefly as a reporter for a newspaper in Charleston, South Carolina, before being assigned to the San Francisco bureau of the Associated Press in 1971. The climate of freedom and tolerance he found in his adopted city inspired him to come out publicly as homosexual in 1974.<more>


Anthony McDonald
Anthony McDonald studied history at Durham University.  He worked very briefly as a musical instrument maker and as a farm labourer before moving into the theatre, where he has worked in almost every capacity except those of Director and Electrician.
His first novel, Orange Bitter, Orange Sweet, was published by Gay Men’s Press in 2001 and his second, Adam, in 2003.<more>


Charlie Vazquez
Charlie Vazquez is the Cubano-Nuyorican author of novels, screenplays, short stories, articles and essays. He is included in the academic essay anthology Queer and Catholic and will finish his second novel Contraband in 2008. He performed in experimental, electronic and punk bands in Portland, Oregon and has lived in Southern California and BajaMexico.
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Daniel Vincent
Daniel Vincent was born London in 1973. He spent his twenties in Japan before returning to the UK where he currently teaches English as a foreign language.

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