speakers
Fiona Zedde
Fiona Zedde is a Jamaican transplant currently living and working in Atlanta, Georgia. Her work has been published in various anthologies including Best Lesbian Erotica 2004 and 2007, Wicked: Sexy Tales of Legendary Lovers, and Iridescence: Sensuous... Read more →
Emanuel Xavier
Emanuel Xavier is the author of the poetry collection Americano, the novel Christ Like, and editor of Bullets & Butterflies: queer spoken word poetry and Mariposas: A Modern Anthology of Queer Latino Poetry. He has been featured on Russell Simmons... Read more →
Chavisa Woods
Chavisa Woods is the author of Love Does Not Make Me Gentle or Kind published by Fly by Night Press in 2008. This book was a finalist for the 2009 Lambda Literary Award for Debut Fiction. Woods is the recipient of the Jerome Foundation 2009 Literary... Read more →
Paul Willis
Paul Willis has over 15 years of experience in non-profit management. He has a B.S. degree in Psychology and an M.S. degree in Communication. He started his administrative work in 1992 as the co-director for the Holos Foundation in Minneapolis. The Foundation... Read more →
Jerry Wheeler
Jerry Wheeler is an editor of the forthcoming book of circus erotica, Tented: Gay Erotic Tales from Under the Big Top (Lethe Press). Wheeler has appeared in many anthologies, including Law of Desire, Best Gay Romance 2010, Bears in the Wild, I Do! and... Read more →
Jess Wells
Jess Wells is the author of 13 volumes including three novels, five books of short stories, and anthologies of fiction and social commentary. Her latest work, The Mandrake Broom, dramatizes the fight to save medical knowledge during the witch-burning... Read more →
Robert Walker
Robert Walker began writing poetry while playing bass in the cover-band ManHole (an all-male group that played songs originally recorded by Courtney Love’s mid-90s band Hole). After ManHole split, Walker enjoyed a brief solo career opening for... Read more →
Charlie Vázquez
Charlie Vázquez’s debut novel Contraband: A Revolution of the Soul will be published by Rebel Satori in 2010. He is a radical Bronx-bred, Brooklyn-based writer of Cuban and Puerto Rican descent. His fiction and essays have been published in various... Read more →
Cecilia Tan
Cecilia Tan is the woman Susie Bright called “simply one of the most important writers, editors, and innovators in contemporary American erotic literature.” She is the author of numerous books of short stories and erotic novels, eBooks, and... Read more →
Carsen Taite
Carsen Taite works by day (and sometimes night) as a criminal defense attorney in Dallas, Texas. Though her day job is often stranger than fiction, she can’t seem to get enough and spends much of her free time plotting stories. She is the author... Read more →
