Shane Allison is the author of six books of poetry. Ceiling of Mirrors (Cynic Press), I Want to Fuck a Redneck (Scintillating Publications), Cock and Balls (Feel Free Press), Black Fag (Future Tense Books), I Want to Eat Chinese Food Off Your Ass and Eros in a Tearoom both from (Propaganda Press). His poems have been published in the New York Quarterly, Mississippi Review, New Delta Review, Velvet Mafia, I Do/I Don't: Queers on Marriage, This New Breed:Gents, Badboys and Barbarians 2, Coloring Book: An Eclectic Anthology of Fiction and Poetry by Multicultural Writers, and many others. He is the editor of Hot Cops: Gay Erotic Stories, Backdraft: Hot Fireman Erotica and College Boys: Gay Erotic Stories.

Check out his erotic poetry collection Slut Machine

Stephen Beachy is the author of two novels, The Whistling Song and Distortion and the twin novellas Some Phantom/No Time Flat. His fiction has appeared in BOMB, The Chicago Review, Blithe House Quarterly, and anthologies such as Best American Gay Fiction, High Risk 2, and Madder Love: Queer Men and the Precincts of Surrealism. His essays have appeared in New York Magazine, the New York Times Magazine and the San Francisco Bay Guardian. He lives in California. His novel Distortion will be reissued by Queer Mojo in 2010. (Photo: Greg Wharton)

Tristram Burden’s short stories, poetry and articles on contemporary occultism and self-transformation have appeared internationally in a variety of journals and anthologies. This is his debut novel, a finalist in the 2006 Project: Queerlit contest. He currently resides in Bath, England where he's recording his first album and writing a TV series in-between working on his second novel.

Check out his novel My Hero: A Wild Boy's Tale

Farrell R. Davisson (1919-1993) worked for years as a staff writer, critic and editor for daily Variety in Chicago. Davisson taught journalism at Penn State University. His journalism, criticism and poetry have appeared in Variety, Avante Garde, The American Fisherman and The Maine Times. Davisson's work appears in Ashé Journal #1, Ashé Journal #5.1 and Ashé Journal #7.1. His novel Trial of the Innocent is forthcoming in 2010.

Sven Davisson is the founding editor of Ashé! Journal of Experimental Spirituality. A rebel-publishing pioneer, Davisson edited the small, yet groundbreaking, zine mektoub from 1989-1995. During that time, he also received a degree in Queer Theory from Hampshire College and studied photography with Jerome Leibling of the New York Photo League. In addition to Ashé, his work has appeared in Abrasax: Journal of Magick & Decadence, sneerzine, The New Aeon, mektoub, Lambda Book Report and Velvet Mafia as well as the collection I Do/I Don’t: Queers On Marriage. Davisson's work appears in Ashé Journal #1, Ashé Journal #2.2, Ashé Journal #2.3, Ashé Journal #3.1, Ashé Journal #4.1, Ashé Journal #5.4 and Ashé Journal #7.2. <Author Website> (Photo: Nathaniel Bamford)

Bryan Dini is a latter-day practicioner of dandysme in the Baudelairean sense, who knows how to capture modernity in its fleeting moments, post-it, and saunter flaneur-style into the nostalgic twilight. Dini subscribes to the UNIBROW philosophy: high-brow, low-brow, uni-brow. The dandy without the asceticism, the "doctrine of elegance," who knows of what base metal is made our gold. In that order. Old-school faggetry, queercore style. Aesthete-as-athelete. Dini's work appears in Ashé Journal #3.3.

Peter Dubé is the author of the chapbook Vortex Faction Manifesto, the novel Hovering World and At the Bottom of the Sky, a collection of linked short fiction. He is also the editor of the Rebel Satorianthology Madder Love: Queer Men and the Precincts of Surrealism. In addition to writing fiction, he is a widely published cultural critic with essays on books and the visual arts appearing in journals such as CV Photo, ESSE and Spirale, and in exhibition publications for various galleries, among them SKOL, Mercer Union and the Leonard and Bina Ellen Gallery of Concordia University. Peter lives and works in Montreal. His work also appears in Ashé Journal #7.1.

Justin Crockett Elzie is a self-described Renaissance Man, and a writer and actor in New York City. He is a Progressive Activist on Environmental and Civil Rights issues and a blogger on the Queer NYC blog team. His first book Playing By The Rules, about his experiences as a gay Marine, is forthcoming in fall 2010.

L.A. Fields's work has appeared in the anthologies Cool Thing: The Best New Gay Fiction From Young American Writers and Unspeakable Horror: From the Shadows of The Closet, as well as in the internet collective “Still Blue: More Writing By (For or About) Working-Class Queers” and online journal, Ignavia. Fields is currently pursuing a degree in English Literature at the New College of Florida.

Maladaptation

Joseph M. Gant is a glassblower by trade. Though he holds a degree in Scientific Glass Technology, his life’s study has encompassed many variables. A long-time student of Tibetan religion and culture, science buff, musician, and lover of world literature, Joseph is ultimately a writer. His work has appeared across the spectrum of small press zines and academic journals. He currently lives in Delaware where he edits poetry for a handful of publications and works on his novel..

Gopakumara das lives in California. B.V. Tripurari Swami is his guru and Sridhara Maharaja is his param guru. His article "The Private Life of Divinity" appears in Ashé Journal #3.2.

Chad Helder is the Stoker Award-winning editor of Unspeakable Horror: From the Shadows of the Closet (Dark Scribe Press 2008), an anthology of queer horror fiction, which he co-edited with Vince Liaguno. The Vampire Bridegroom, a book of queer horror poems and tales, will be published by Dark Scribe Press in late 2010. The book is named after a poem that appeared in Icarus magazine. Helder wrote Bartholomew of the Scissors (Bluewater 2008), a comic book miniseries that Helder based on his unpublished horror novel. Daniel Crosier created the art with an innovative combination of pyrography (wood burning) and mixed media. Helder also wrote a series of horror stories for Vincent Price Presents (Bluewater 2008-2009). Born in 1973, Helder grew up in Fort Collins, Colorado. Helder has two literary degrees: a BA in English from the University of Northern Colorado and a MA in English from Western Washington University. He now lives with his partner in Portland, Oregon where he teaches writing at various community colleges. (Photo: Kelly Heese)

j/j hastain is currently living and writing in Colorado, USA. j/j is the author of the full-length book asymptotic lover // thermodynamic vents (BlazeVox 2008) and chapbooks how nerve-yen became the new yew tree (erbacce-press 2009), .compilate. (Livestock Editions 2008), this is what cadence is for (Dusie Press 2009), hemolytic notebook (Scantily Clad Press 2009) and the let me letters (soon to come out with Pudding House Publications). j/j’s writing has appeared in numerous journals including MiPoesias, Eleven Eleven queer poetry magazine (SF, USA), featured essays in Sextures (E-journal for Sexualities, Cultures and Politics) and the hotmetalpress Poetry prize of 2008. j/j received a BA in poetry, music, gender and cultural studies, and an MFA in contemporary poetics. j/j’s book our bodies are beauty inducers is forthcoming from Queer Mojo in 2010.

Trebor Healey is a gifted poet, whose collection Sweet Son of Pan was recently released by Suspect Thoughts Press. He received The Ferro-Grumley Award for Fiction for his 2003 novel Through It Came Bright Colors. In addition to Ashé, his work has appeared in Velvet Mafia, Blithe House Review, Lodestar Quarterly and numerous anthologies including Queer Dharma, Law of Desire, Out of Control , Bend Don't Shatter among others. Healey's work appears in Ashé Journal #1, Ashé Journal #2.1, Ashé Journal #2.3, Ashé Journal #3.2, Ashé Journal #4.2 and Ashé Journal #5.2. Read an interview in Ashé Journal #2.3. Trebor's short story collection A Perfect Scar is currently available and his poetry collection Sweet Son of Pan will be released by Rebel's Queer Mojo imprint spring 2010. (Photo: Martin Cox)

SM Johnson lives in northern Wisconsin with her family, where she writes, reads, and otherwise hibernates through the long winter months. She has written for various local newspapers, but prefers writing fiction.

DeVante's Coven
DeVante's Children (coming soon)

Jason Kraley is Ashé Journal's Art Editor. His work was featured in issue #6.1. Jason is a native Cleveland artist, musician, web/graphic designer and filmmaker who continually seeks ways to create physical records of his own existence. Whether it’s through painting, drawing, music or film, his creations serve to document and convey his experiences, his emotions and his life. He has lived in Philadelphia since 2005. Visit his website at www.jasonkraley.com

Brandon Lacy Campos is a 33 year old Afro-Boricua, African-American, Ojibwe, Euro, poz, writer, blogger, performance poet, policy wonk, organizer, and rabble rouser. His work has appeared in nearly a dozen anthologies ranging from collections of queer Latino poetry to Queer Twin Cities, an academic anthology exploring the queer history of Minneapolis and St. Paul. He has written articles for numerous online and print magazines and newspapers including, beginning Summer 2011, regular contributions to Out.com and, in October 2011, The Advocate's print edition. His blog, MyFeetOnlyWalkForward.com earned him the #2 spot on Queer Latino Bloggers to Watch at MyLatinoVoice.com, and he also blogs at TheBody.com. In 2006, the Minneapolis Star Tribune named him a “Young Wonk to Watch,” for his insane love of breaking down complex public policy issues into language non-Wonks can understand. In addition, Brandon has guest lectured at half a dozen colleges and universities on the intersection of race, sexual orientation and art as a tool for social change. He recently performed Off Broadway as the opening act for Bebe Zahara Benet's Queendom. He is a proud NOC (Nerd of Color), and combines his love of sex, politics, love, science fiction and fantasy, and queerness in his writing. He lives in New York City in an open relationship with his partner David and in a closed relationship with his dog Mimzy. He is grateful for his Rebel Sartori Press community, and is looking forward to holding Eden Lost in his grubby little hands.

Raymond Luczak is the author and editor of over ten books, including Assembly Required: Notes from a Deaf Gay Life and Mute: Poems. Ever since his breakthrough Christopher Street magazine essay “Notes of a Deaf Gay Writer” in December 1990, he has gone on to edit two anthologies about the Deaf GLBT community: Eyes of Desire: A Deaf Gay & Lesbian Reader and Eyes of Desire 2: A Deaf GLBT Reader. His work has appeared in over ten anthologies and many periodicals. As a playwright, he has seen sixteen of his stage plays performed in three countries; four of them were collected in Whispers of a Savage Sort and Other Plays about the Deaf American Experience. As a filmmaker, Luczak has directed the full-length documentaries Guy Wonder: Stories & Artwork and Nathie: No Hand-Me-Downs. He resides in Minneapolis, Minnesota. His web site is www.raymondluczak.com.

Men With Their Hands

Jeff Mann grew up in Covington, Virginia, and Hinton, West Virginia, receiving degrees in English and forestry from West Virginia University.  His poetry, fiction, and essays have appeared in many publications, including Arts and Letters, Prairie Schooner, Shenandoah, Willow Springs, The Gay and Lesbian Review Worldwide, Crab Orchard Review, Bloom, and Appalachian Heritage.  He has published three award-winning poetry chapbooks, Bliss, Mountain Fireflies, and Flint Shards from Sussex; two full-length books of poetry, Bones Washed with Wine and On the Tongue; two collections of personal essays, Edge: Travels of an Appalachian Leather Bear and Binding the God: Ursine Essays from the Mountain South; a novella, Devoured, included in Masters of Midnight: Erotic Tales of the Vampire; a book of poetry and memoir, Loving Mountains, Loving Men; and a volume of short fiction, A History of Barbed Wire, which won a Lambda Literary Award.  He teaches creative writing at Virginia Tech in Blacksburg, Virginia.

His book Ash: Poems from Norse Mythology is forthcoming.

Lupercus is a 34 year-old gay pagan who has chosen to remain out of the spotlight. Among other things, he is a writer, photographer, and witch. Lupercus means ‘He Who Wards Off The Wolf’, which is thought to be another name for the Roman god Faunus. His poetry and photography appears in Ashé Jouurnal #7.2. Lupercus can be reached at lupercuspagani [at] yahoo.com

Cynthea Masson is a professor in the English Department at Vancouver Island University in Nanaimo, Canada. Her academic research and publication areas comprise medieval visionary literature, medieval alchemical poetry, and the contemporary works of Joss Whedon, including Buffy, Angel, and Firefly.

Her first novel The Elijah Tree is now available from Rebel Satori.

Jay Michaelson is chief editor of Zeek: A Jewish Journal of Thought and Culture (www.zeek.net). Founded in 2002, Zeek features innovative writers, artists and critics whose work speaks to questions of Jewish culture, society and spirit. Zeek is available both online (www.zeek.net) and in an expanded content print edition. Jay guest-edited Ashé Journal #5.4 and his story "Erotic Mikvah" appeared in issue #5.1.

Ruth Moore was born in 1903 on a small island off the Maine coast. During her long and successful carreer, Moore published 14 novels, three collections of poetry and many short short stories. Her books included the New York Times bestseller Spoonhandle that was made into the film Deep Waters by 20th Century Fox. In 2004, a collection of her short fiction, When Foley Craddock Tore Off My Grandfather's Thumb (edited by Sven Davisson) was released postuhmously by Blackberry Books. Moore's work appears in Ashé Journal #1, Ashé Journal #2.3 and Ashé Journal #3.2. (Photo: Eleanor Mayo)

For over two decades, D. Travers Scott has worked as a writer, critic, and artist, appearing everywhere from underground ‘zines to Harper’s and This American Life. He is author of two novels: the internationally acclaimed Execution, Texas: 1987 and the Lambda Literary Award winner, One of these Things is Not Like the Other. After many years in the advertising industry, he is currently completing a PhD at the Annenberg School for Communication at the University of Southern California. He and his husband live in Los Angeles.

Love Hard: Stories 1989-2009

Anurag Shantam began his inner journey in earnest in 1981 when he became a disciple of the master Osho. Powerfully drawn to working with the archetypes, or what are known in western psychology as the sub-personalities, he found it to be the perfect structure through which to explore the inner world. First with the use of hypnotherapy, and then with a technique he developed using toys, he explored deeper and deeeper layers of consciousness until he discovered the centers of light, the three parts of self, animating the whole drama. From this emerged his teaching of how to awaken the centers of consciousness, to restore unity, and to uncover the enlightenment already hidden within. Anurag currently lives and teaches in Saco, Maine. His book Awakening is now available.

Trevor Smith is an artist in as many facets as he can manage. He is a commissioned painter and a tattoo artist. He is a graduate of the University of Hard Knocks with honors. Trevor lives in Toronto with his family. Year of the Rooster is his first novel.

His book The Year of the Rooster will be released in 2010.

Natty Soltesz’s stories have been published in the anthologies Best Gay Erotica 2010, Best Gay Romance 2010, and Second Person Queer (among others); in the magazines Freshmen, Mandate, and Handjobs; and on the website Velvet Mafia. He co-wrote the 2009 porn film “Dad Takes a Fishing Trip” with director Joe Gage and contributed dialogue to Gage’s 2006 film “Lifeguard.” Since 2000 he’s published stories on his website, nattysoltesz.com, and he is a faithful contributor to the Nifty Erotic Stories Archive. Backwoods is his first book. He grew up in a small town in western Pennsylvania and lives in Pittsburgh with his lover.

Rob Stephenson is the author of the novel Passes Through (Fiction Collective 2). His fictions and essays have appeared in numerous locations both online and in print. Recent publications include Sidebrow, Golden Handcuffs Review, Invert(e), Entangled Lives, Madder Love, American Book Review, and The Mad Hatter’s Review. He lives in NYC.

U (coming soon)

Mark Thompson is a native son of California’s scenic Monterey Peninsula. In the early 1970s he moved to San Francisco to attend college and study journalism. Soon caught up in the dramatic struggles of the early gay rights movement, Thompson lost no time in putting to work his talent in telling a good story. Today, he is the author of several books on gay culture and history, including the internationally acclaimed Gay Spirit. A photographer as well, a collection of Thompson’s images, “Fellow Travelers,” has been exhibited nationally. He lives in Los Angeles with his life partner of many years, Episcopal priest and author Malcolm Boyd. His new book Advocate Days & Other Stories is available from Queer Mojo Imprint. (photo: Crawford Barton)

Charlie Vázquez is a radical writer of Cuban and Puerto Rican descent. His fiction and essays have been published in various print and online publications and anthologies. He hosts a queer reading series in New York called PANIC! and is a retired experimental musician and photographer. Contraband is his second novel. (photo: El Payaso)

J. Warren holds a Masters degree in Literature from University of South Alabama. He is currently working on a doctorate in English Studies at Illinois State, concentrating on literature for adolescents, graphic novels and gender theory.

Check out his novel: Stealing Ganymede

Emanuel Xavier took the New York City spoken word scene by storm in 1996, quickly becoming one of the most significant voices to emerge from the neo-Nuyorican poetry movement. Following in the tradition of writers/performers like Miguel Piñero, Xavier captivated audiences with a fresh and poignant brand of art that celebrated sexuality, Latino heritage, and the often brutal streets of New York. He is the author of two collections of poetry, Pier Queen and Americano, and a novel Christ-Like. Read an interview in Ashé Journal #4.2. Xavier's work appears in Ashé Journal #3.3. The tenth anniversary edition of Christ Like and his poetry collection If Jesus Were Gay & other poerms are available from Rebel's imprint Queer Mojo.(Photo: Leo Toro)