Horehound Stillpoint is a San Francisco waiter/writer who’s been around forever. He’s a story in Justin Chin’s ‘Burden of Ashes’ and he was the muse, supposedly, for Ian Philips’ ‘Satyriasis.’ His work has been widely published in anthologies such as Poetry Slam, Poetry Nation, Out in the Castro, Pills, Thrills, Chills and Heartache, and [...]

My passion is to write words and music. The words have been in stories, poems and plays. The music has all been for musicals based on the Bible. Obviously, I love Japan and her people and am trying to learn to speak the language. I have nine grandchildren.

Kevin Langson grew up in small town in North Carolina and moved to San Francisco to study documentary film production. Four years in (with some time in Chicago), San Francisco is now the home that inspires him. In addition to short stories,he writes poetry and film and theatre reviews. He can be reached at: perspicacitykid [...]

Richard Mandrachio is a writer, editor, and illustrator whose literary reviews, poetry and prose have been published nationally. His clients include: TSR Inc, Amazing Stories, The Oceanic Society, US Postal Service, National Park Service, San Diego Tribune, Milady Publishing, Wavelengths Online, Riverside Quarterly, La Stampa, The Oregonian, The San Francisco Chronicle. Since the [...]

Carter Maddox grew up in East Texas in the 90s and 00s and moved to Texas State University—San Marcos to pursue a B.A. in fiction in 2007. He is currently working with the English and theatre departments there to create an undergraduate degree in playwriting. Carter is fiction editor for the school’s literacy [...]

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Truong Tran is the author of three previous collections of poetry and a children’s book. The Book of Perceptions, published in 1999 by Kearny Street Workshop, was a finalist for The Kiriyama Prize. placing the accents, published in 1999 by Apogee Press, was a finalist for the Western States Book Prize for Poetry, [...]

Growing up in the Midwest, at an early age I began writing poems and stories, and plays, which I cajoled my sisters to act in. In the 1980’s and 90’s I published several pieces, mostly travel articles, but also a few poems and book reviews, in publications such as, The Advocate, LA Weekly, In Style, [...]

I grew up in 1970’s mono cultural East Anglia, England, and moved to London in the mid 80’s.  I hold an M.A.degree in Social Policy (University of East London).  What intrigues me is the juxta positioning of extremes and the exploration of what can happen when individuals from very different backgrounds encounter fundamental change. In [...]

Thomas Burke is the author of the collection Where Is Home (Fithian Press 2005). His work has been published in reviews including The James White Review, Harrington Gay Men’s Fiction Quarterly, The Chiron Review, and the Evergreen Chronicles; and in anthologies including Queer and Catholic (Routledge, 2008). He is Assistant Professor of Social and Cultural [...]

M.S. Allen’s stories and essays have appeared in Canada’s Descant Magazine, the Georgia Review, the James White Review, the Gay & Lesbian Review, New York Stories, and Upstairs at Duroc. “Communion” first appeared in the queer journal, Modern Words. His Pushcart Prize nominated story, “Ivan & Misha” is included in the recently published anthology, “Best [...]