A Study in Lavender: Queering Sherlock Holmes (39 page)

Joseph R.G. DeMarco hails from Philadelphia and is the author of
Murder on Camac
and
A Body on Pine
, the first two books in his Marco Fontana mystery series (Lethe Press). He is the Publisher/Editor of
Mysterical-E
(www.mystericale.com) and prior to that was editor of
The Weekly Gayzette
,
NGL Magazine
, and
Il Don Gennaro
. He has worked as a columnist for
The Advocate
,
In Touch
, and
Gaysweek
and has written for the
Philadelphia Gay News
(PGN),
The New York Native
,
Gay Community News
,
The Philadelphia Inquirer
, and others. His article “Gay Racism,” which first appeared in PGN, won the Best Feature writing award from the Gay Press Association and is anthologized in
We Are Everywhere
,
BlackMen WhiteMen
, and
Men’s Lives
. His stories and essays have been published in the Arsenal Pulp Press “Quickies” series,
Men Seeking Men
,
Charmed Lives
,
Gay Life
,
Hey Paisan!
,
Paws and Reflect
,
The Gay and Lesbian Review Worldwide
,
The International Encyclopedia of Marriage and Family
,
The Encyclopedia of Men and Masculinities
, and others. His plays have been produced in Philadelphia, NY, and elsewhere. One of his loves is mystery but he also has an abiding interest in alternate history, vampires, werewolves, science fiction, the supernatural, mythology, and more. You can learn more at www.josephdemarco.com

William P. Coleman is a writer and scientist based in Buffalo, NY, USA. He has completed a novel,
Telémakhos
, and is now working on a second. You can reach him by writing to wpc at wpcmath dot com.

Vincent Kovar is a writer, playwright, journalist and professor living in Washington State. He currently teaches at Antioch University Seattle and Richard Hugo House. Vincent has appeared as an actor on stage and in independent films such as the gay-zombie spoof
Creatures from the Pink Lagoon
. He now devotes his time to writing. He is founding editor and curator of the
Gay City
anthology series, a writer for
Journeys
magazine and a columnist on the blog, Education 3.0. Recently, he was a collaborating playwright on Open Circle Theatre’s annual HP Lovecraft show,
Pickman’s Model
, in the Pulp Diction festival in Portland, OR, and on Gay City Health Project’s
The Infection Monologues
. His fiction has appeared in
Hardcore Hardboiled
, edited by Todd Robinson, and in
Hot Gay Erotica
, edited by Richard Labonté. Other pieces are coming out in
Rockets, Swords & Rainbows
, edited by Bill Tucker, and
Touch of the Sea
, edited by Steve Berman. Vincent is also hard at work on a novel. He can be contacted via his website: www.vincentkovar.com.

Catalog librarian by day, Lyn C. A. Gardner coedits the journal
Virginia Libraries
. Gardner’s first book of SF/F poetry,
Dreaming of Days in Astophel
, is available beginning March 2011 from Sam’s Dot Publishing. Over 250 stories, poems, art, and articles have appeared in
Strange Horizons
,
Daily Science Fiction
,
Time Well Bent
,
Legends of the Pendragon
,
Sybil’s Garage
,
The Leading Edge
,
Mythic Delirium
,
MindFlights
, and more. Two stories and a poem earned honorable mention in
The Year’s Best Fantasy and Horror
(Ellen Datlow & Terri Windling, editors); six poems have been nominated for the Rhysling Award (SFPA). Gardner is an associate member of Mystery Writers of America and Science Fiction & Fantasy Writers of America. Visit www.gardnercastle.com and http://groups.yahoo.com/group/gardnercastle/.

Ruth Sims has lived her entire life in small-town Midwest USA surrounded by fields of corn, wheat, soybeans, and conservatives. Her special love of drama comes out in her novel
The Phoenix
(Lethe Press, 2009), and her passion for Classical and Romantic music lives in her book
Counterpoint: Dylan’s Story
(Dreamspinner Press, 2010), one of the top 108 books for 2011/American Library Association LGBT Roundtable Rainbow Project. Several of her short stories are available as e-books from Untreed Reads. After thirty years of holding down a day job while writing and raising two kids and a husband, the chance finally came to write full-time. The characters in her head rejoiced! It was getting crowded in there. Her web presence includes: a website: www.ruthsims.com, her blog: http://ruth-sims.livejournal.com/. And her e-mail address is: [email protected]

Michael G. Cornelius is the author/editor of ten books, several plays that have been produced on stage, and numerous stories, poems, and essays. His books have been sold to Chelsea House, McFarland, the Vineyard Press, Variance Publishing, SynSine Press, and shorter works have been sold to or appeared in works from University of South Carolina Press, Lethe Press, Alyson Books, Dark Scribe Press, Jan van Eyck Press, and others, and have appeared in such journals and magazines as
Americana
,
Futures Mystery Anthology Magazine
,
The Spillway Review
,
Velvet Mafia
,
Lachryma: Modern Songs of Lament
,
Clever Magazine
,
CreamDrops
,
From the Asylum
,
Scroll in Space
,
The Piker Press
,
White Crane Journal
, and more.

Elka Cloke is the author of
Bitter Language
. Her poetry has also been published at the front of the novels
Clockwork Angel
and
City of Ashes
by Cassandra Clare. She lives and practices medicine in Western Massachusetts. She is married and has one sphinx cat named after a demon.