Sean Meriwether - Managing Editor
Sean Meriwether’s fiction has appeared in Best Gay Love Stories 2006, Hot Cops, Best of the Best Gay Erotica 2, and other notorious publications. His first collection of short fiction, The Silent Hustler, will be released by Suspect Thoughts Press in 2009. In addition to managing Velvet Mafia, he co-edited Men of Mystery: Homoerotic Tales of Intrigue and Suspense with Greg Wharton. Sean lives in New York with his partner, photographer Jack Slomovits, and their two dogs.
New Fiction Online: "Burn the Rich "
Read Interview by William S. Dean, Erotica Readers & Writers Association
Website: penboy7.com
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Greg Wharton - Contributing Editor
Greg Wharton is the publisher of Suspect Thoughts Press. He is the author of Johnny Was & Other Tall Tales and the editor/co-editor of numerous anthologies including the Lambda Literary Award–winning I Do/I Don’t: Queers on Marriage. He lives in Oakland with his brilliant and sexy husband Ian.
New Fiction Online: "Blood Oranges and Cotton Candy"
Read the Conversation with Ian Philips on Law of Desire
Website: SuspectThoughts.com
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Philip Clark - Poetry Editor
Philip Clark is a Washington D.C.-area writer and editor. He spent three years (2001-2003) as poetry editor for The William & Mary Review. Currently, he is at work on an anthology of poetry by writers who died from AIDS. He welcomes all correspondence at philipclark@hotmail.com. He is not nearly as staid as this bio note makes him sound.
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Richard Labonte - Editor At Large
Richard Labonte, after 20 years working at the original version of A Different Light Bookstores in San Francisco, West Hollywood and New York, now lives on a 200-acre farm in rural Ontario and divides his time among reading, weeding and writing book reviews for PlanetOut, Lambda Book Report, and Publishers Weekly, and, coming this fall, for his own syndicated book review column and a forthcoming web site. He also works as a freelance copy editor, as a consultant to writers and publishers, and as a contributing editor for Harrington Park Press. He has edited the Best Gay Erotica series for Cleis Press since 1997, and has probably read more than 3,000 submissions, of which about 125 have been selected for publication over the years.
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Regular Contributors:

Jameson Currier
Jameson Currier is the author of the novel, Where the Rainbow Ends, and a collection of short stories, Desire Lust Passion Sex. His short fiction can also be found in the anthologies Men on Men, Best American Gay Fiction, Best Gay Erotica, Mammoth Book of Gay Erotica, Making Literature Matter, Rebel Yell, and Circa 2000, among others. His story “Snow,” published in the first issue of Velvet Mafia, was selected for Best Gay Erotica 2003 and Best American Erotica 2004.
New Fiction Online: "Alibis" Excerpted from Desire Lust Passion Sex
Website: JamesonCurrier.com

Jim Gladstone
Jim Gladstone, author of The Big Book of Misunderstanding and Gladstone's Games to Go has also written comic strips, dialogue for the Claymation M&M's characters, award-winning erotic fiction, television commercials about heavy menstrual bleeding, and fine dining reviews. He lives, eats, fucks, and bleeds in Philadelphia.|
Website: JimGladstone.com

Jack Slomovits
Jack Slomovits is an erotic and lifestyles photojournalist. His work is published internationally in various mediums, as well as, collected and represented by dealers and galleries. Slomovits' approach to capturing moments on film is a combination of voyuerism and lust for his models, experiencing the moment through his subjects and the lens. Jack Slomovits' current work is split between erotic imagery and wedding photojournalism.
New Images in Issue 22
New book from Bruno Gmunder Sex in the West Village, NYC
Website: jackny.com

 

Readers:

Shane Allison has been called a fag, a nigger and a genius. He has had both poetry and fiction published in suspect thoughts, Mc Sweeney's, I Do/I Don’t: Queers on Marriage, Spork and S.M.U.T. He has been published in numerous anthologies such as Best Black Gay Erotica, Best Gay Love Stories and Best Gay Erotica 2007. He is the proud editor of Hot Cops: Gay Erotic Stories.