Fucking Daphne (39 page)

 

MARLO GAYLE
does enjoy beating the snot out of six-foot-tall bunnies in his spare time, but is such a skimp that he'd make sure he got his deposit back on the costume rental.

 

ARIEL GORE
is editor/publisher of
Hip Mama
and the author of a bunch of books, including
The Traveling Death and Resurrection Show, Atlas of the Human Heart,
and
The Hip Mama Survival Guide.
Click to
www.arielgore.com
.

 

DELPHINE GOTHLEAB
is often mistaken for Daphne Gottlieb.

 

CAREN GUSSOFF
is the author of
Homecoming
(Serpent's Tail, 2000), a novel, and
The Wave and Other Stories
(Serpent's Tail, 2003), a collection of short stories. Her work has appeared in some writing texts, a couple of magazines, and some great anthologies, and she was a 2001 nominee for the
Village Voice'
s “Writers on the Verge.” She received her BA from the University of Colorado and her MFA from the School of the Art Institute of Chicago.

 

MERRI LISA JOHNSON
really is worried about what you think of her. She directs the Center for Women's and Gender Studies at the University of South Carolina Upstate, primarily so that people will love her and take her seriously. She has edited several books for the same reasons:
Jane Sexes It Up: True Confessions of Feminist Desire; Jane Puts It in a Box: Third Wave Feminism and Television;
and
Flesh for Fantasy: Producing and Consuming Exotic Dance
(coedited with Katherine Frank and Danielle Egan). She is already thinking of new ways to win your affection.

 

TENNESSEE JONES
lives in Brooklyn, New York. He is the author of
Deliver Me from Nowhere
(Soft Skull, 2005), which was nominated for a Lambda Award in 2006. He is currently at work on a novel about three young women growing up in Eastern Kentucky.

 

SARAH KATHERINE LEWIS
, a ten-year veteran of the adult industry, is the author of
Indecent: How I Make It and Fake It as a Girl for Hire
(Seal, 2006) and
Sex and Bacon: Why I Love Things That Are Very, Very Bad for Me
(forthcoming from Seal, 2008). A surly recluse, she lives in Seattle, Washington, and makes her rent money by volunteering for paid medical experimentation and writing content for mainstream adult websites. In her spare time she creates creepy, overly personal audio content for Audio Accidents Records. She has been featured on NPR, Playboy Radio, and Pirate Cat Radio.

 

HEATHEN MACHINERY
wishes to apologize to you because words are dumb containers, which sometimes spill over and mess everything up. She also wants you to know that she is a good person, that no exes were harmed in the writing of her
Fucking Daphne
story, and that hearts are also stupid containers that sometimes spill over and mess everything up. In addition to this book, she has been published in
Lodestar Quarterly
and has been seen several times trying not to vomit on a microphone while reading her stories out loud for actual people. She lives in San Francisco.

 

JARED JACANG MAHER
has written articles for
Adbusters
magazine, the
Chicago Reader,
and
Alternet.org
. He was an editor of the 2004 Soft Skull Press anthology
Life and Limb: Skateboarders Write from the Deep End.
He currently lives in Denver, Colorado, where he is a staff writer for
Westword.

 

NICK MAMATAS
is the author of the novel of neighborhood nuclear proliferation (for kids!)
Under My Roof
(Soft Skull, 2007),
the Bram Stoker Award- and International Horror Guild Award- nominated Lovecraftian Beat road novel (for shut-ins!)
Move Under Ground
(Night Shade, 2004; Prime, 2006), and the Bram Stoker Award-nominated Civil War ghost story (for Marxists!)
Northern Gothic
(Soft Skull, 2001). His pornographic fiction has appeared in the webzines
Fishnet
and
Suicide Girls,
and in the anthology of novellas
Short & Sweet
(Blue Moon, 2006). A native New Yorker, Nick now lives in Massachusetts.

 

MARTY MCCONNELL
received her MFA from Sarah Lawrence College and cocurates the flagship reading series of the louderARTS Project, a New York City-based literary nonprofit. Her work has been published in numerous anthologies, including
Homewrecker: An Adultery Reader; Spoken Word Revolution: Redux; His Rib;
and
Women of the Bowery,
as well as magazines including
Rattapallax, Fourteen Hills, Thirteenth Moon, 2River View, Lodestar Quarterly,
and
Blue Fifth Review,
and is forthcoming in
Rattle.
She has performed in and facilitated workshops at schools and festivals around the country, including the Dodge Poetry Festival, the Connecticut Poetry Festival, Cornell University, University of Utah, James Madison University, University of Connecticut, University of Arkansas, DePaul University, and more.

 

RICHARD MELO
is the author of the novel
Jokerman 8
(Soft Skull, 2004). Melo lives in Portland, Oregon, and is working on a second book.

 

T. R. MOSS
is the pseudonym of a writer whose work has appeared in publications including
Best Lesbian Erotica 2004
and
Best of the Best Lesbian Erotica 2.

 

GABE SCELTA
makes art, writes stuff, and takes long showers. He has artwork in over fifty private collections and occasionally publishes research about ancient writing systems as well as stories about sex with editors. Gabe thanks Daphne for having great taste in stories and poker buddies, Aimee for her love and support, and Noelle for coming back after so long. He currently lives in San Francisco with an angry seven-fingered cat, and many semiaggressive fishes. Visit
www.thisisgabes.com
.

 

LORI SELKE'
s writing has appeared in anthologies such as
Homewrecker, Glamour Girls, Bottoms Up,
and
Everything You Know About Sex Is Wrong.
She is the editor of two collections of down-and-dirty dyke erotica,
Tough Girls
and
Tough Girls 2.
She lives in Oakland, California, with two sweeties and three cats.

 

BUCKY SINISTER
is the author of
King of the Roadkills, Whiskey and Robots,
and
All Blacked Out & Nowhere to Go.
His debut spoken-word CD,
What Happens in Narnia Stays in Narnia,
is out now on Talent Moat Records. He enjoys Ben & Jerry's ice cream, Muddy Waters's coffee, and run-on sentences.

 

ERIC SPITZNAGEL
writes or has written for magazines like
Playboy, Esquire, Spy
,
Harper's, Mean, Blender,
and
Maxim,
among many others. He is a contributing editor for the
Believer
and the web editor for
Monkeybicycle.
He has written six books, including one that was published in German and features a cat on the cover for no apparent reason. His latest books include
Fast Forward
(Manic D, 2006), a memoir of his brief career writing screenplays for the
adult film industry, and
The Hardest (Working) Man in Show Biz
(HarperCollins, 2007), the autobiography of porn star Ron Jeremy. His website is called Vonnegut's Asshole (
www.vonnegutsasshole. com
), although he rarely writes about assholes or Kurt Vonnegut. He's more afraid of you than you are of him.

 

SUSAN STEINBERG
is the author of the story collections
Hydroplane
and
The End of Free Love
(Fiction Collective 2). Her stories have appeared in
McSweeney's, Conjunctions,
the
Gettysburg Review, Boulevard, Quarterly West, American Short Fiction,
and elsewhere. She has held summer residencies at Yaddo and the MacDowell Colony. She was raised in Baltimore, attended school in Massachusetts, and currently lives in San Francisco.

 

CAROLYN TURGEON
studied English and Italian literature at Penn State and received a master's in comparative literature from UCLA. Her first novel,
Rain Village,
was published by Unbridled Books in 2006. Her second novel,
Godmother,
about the fairy godmother from the Cinderella story, will be published by Three Rivers Press in 2009. She is currently working on her third novel. Carolyn lives in New York.

 

BETT WILLIAMS
is the author of
Girl Walking Backwards
(St. Martin's, 1998) and
The Wrestling Party
(Alyson, 2003). She is currently at work on her third book,
White Line Fever,
about Los Angeles freeways, gay truckers, and all things mobile and petroleum-drunk.

D
aphne Gottlieb stitches together the ivory tower and the gutter using just her tongue. She is most recently the author of her fourth book of poetry,
Kissing Dead Girls.
She is also the author of a graphic novel (
Jokes and the Unconscious,
illustrated by Diane DiMassa), the editor of
Homewrecker: An Adultery Reader,
and the author of three books of award-winning poetry:
Final Girl, Why Things Burn,
and
Pelt.
Additionally, her work has appeared in
Utne Reader
and on
McSweeneys.net
and
Nerve.com
, as well as in a number of journals and more than thirty anthologies. She has served as poetry editor of
other
magazine and
Lodestar Quarterly.
Daphne currently teaches at New College of California and received her MFA from Mills College. You can find her online at
www.daphnegottlieb.com
.

S
tephen Elliott's “What It's Like in San Francisco” first appeared on
Nerve.com
under the title “San Francisco Love Story” and is reprinted with permission.

 

An earlier version of “Why Things Hop,” by Marlo Gayle, first appeared as “Pink, Fluffy, Bound, and Gagged” in
suspect thoughts: a journal of subversive writing,
issue 14, 2005.

 

“Don't Mind Dyin',” by Tennessee Jones, is an excerpt from the zine
Teenage Death Songs,
issue 16
,
2005.

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