Gar McVey-Russell

Gar McVey-Russell’s first novel, Sin Against the Race (Gamr Books, 2017), was listed on The Advocate’s Best Books We Read in 2018: LGBTQ Novels. His short stories “Tom of Boalt Hall” and “The Necklace” were finalists in the Saints and Sinners LGBTQ+ Literary Festival Fiction Contest and appear in their 2020 and 2022 anthologies, respectively. His fiction has also appeared in Sojourner: Black Gay Voices in the Age of AIDS (1993) and other publications. Gar is married and lives in Oakland, California, where he listens to a lot of jazz.