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Alison Aiken has translated works ranging from Court Life in
Medieval Portugal to Teireira Gomes’s Erotic Stories. She also compiled and translated Letters from England, a selection of articles written by Eça de Queirós while he was Portuguese consul to England in the late 1800s (published by Carcanet).

Christopher Barnes www.bbc.co.uk/tyne/gay/2004/05section28.shtml

Chris Beckett lives in London with his Japanese partner who is
a painter. He works in the international sugar trade and writes poetry
in his free time. He won the Poetry London competition in 2001 and
his first collection, The Dog Who Thinks He’s a Fish, was published in September 2004 by Smith Doorstop.

Peter Burton’s books include Rod Stewart: A Life on the Town,
Parallel Lives, Talking to... and Amongst the Aliens. He has twice been nominated for a Lambda, and has edited six collections of short stories, most recently Bend Sinister, Death Comes Easy, and Serendipity: The Gay Times Book of New Stories.

Mauro Cocilio is a photographer based in London. His portraits
and his documentary and fashion images have appeared in Dazed, The Independent Magazine, Marmalade and www.SHOWstudio.com.

Steve Cook was born and lives in London. He is working on a
novel and short stories. His stories have been published in Uncut
Diamonds (Maiapress 2003), The Bridport Prize Anthology 2003 and shortlisted for the Real Writers Short Story Competition 2002 and 2004.

Beverley Duguid is completing a PhD in Gender History and
working on her poetry and short stories. She has taught Women’s
Studies and Black Women’s Literature at Birkbeck College and
Roehampton Institute. She lives in West London.

Simon Edge is a former editor of the newspaper Capital Gay and
a long-standing gay activist. He has had stories published in the collections Death Comes Easy and Serendipity. He has written widely on gay issues in the national press, and is currently a senior feature writer on a national newspaper.

Robert Hamberger’s poetry has been broadcast on Radio 4,
and published in numerous magazines, including The Observer, New
Statesman, Poetry Review and Gay Times. He has been awarded a Hawthornden Fellowship, and a sequence in his latest collection was shortlisted for a Forward Prize. He has published five pamphlets (including The Rule of Earth from Smith / Doorstop 2001) and two collections: Warpaint Angel (Blackwater Press, 1997) and The Smug Bridegroom (Five Leaves, 2002).

C.A.R. Hills is the former editor of PEN News and has contributed
to the Oxford DNB. His “Clapham Omnibus” column was published in Prospect, and his short stories appear in Quadrant (Sydney). He reviews for the Literary Review, the New Statesman and The Tablet. He was one of the leading contributors to The Reader’s Companion to 20th-Century Writers (4th Estate / OUP).

Christopher James has written for The Sunday Times, The Voice, and Thud. His story “One, One Thousand” appears in the first issue of Chroma. He had an unexpected career in choreography, but has returned to his first love, writing.

Mary Lowe is the co-ordinator of proudWORDS, the UK’s only
queer writing festival (www.proudwords.org). She is currently Writer-in-Residence for Age Concern, Newcastle. She writes mainly fiction and is currently completing her novel.

Bertie Marshall is a writer / filmmaker. His debut novel, Psychoboys, was awarded a New Writers Bursary by South East Arts. His short fiction has been published in Prague Literary Review, www.3ammagazine.com, www.Spikemagazine.com, and his short films, “Peephole” and “Frowzty,” have been shown in the UK and USA. His next book, Berlin / Bromley, is set in London in 1976-77.

Lisa Matthews is a poet currently writing a novel. Her first pamphlet of poetry, “Postcard From A Waterless Lake”, was published by Diamond Twig Press in 2002. She lives on the North East coast and is co-founder and organiser of the UK’s only creative writing festival - proudWORDS - run by and for lesbians, gay men and bisexuals.

Michele Martinoli was born in Switzerland and has been living
in London since 1969. Working mainly for the gay press, she has had extensive work published in Blue Magazine, Gay Times, Diva, AXM, QX, Time Out, and Attitude. Her forte is the male nude. In March 2005, her work was exposed in Leicester Square for The Dept of Health’s Hepatitis C Awareness Campaign. See more at www.michelemartinoli.com

Gerson Nason is a USA-born writer / playwright / journalist living
in London. A workshop production of his play 14 Emotions debuts at The Drill Hall later this spring.

Christopher Nield works as a copywriter. His work has been
broadcast on Radio 4 and featured in The Guardian. His poem “The Difference You Make” was Highly Commended in the Creating Reality Poetry Competition 2004. He has recently completed his first collection of poems, Phatic Communion, and is writing a children’s book. Contact: christophernield@hotmail.com

Daniel Noquet grew up in London, but now lives in Brighton, where he works as a support worker for people with learning disabilities. He is training to be a yoga teacher, and can be contacted at dannoquet@yahoo.co.uk.

Eduardo Pitta was born in Maputo (Lourenço Marques) in 1949
and lived in Mozambique until 1975. A large selection of his poetry
was collected in Poesia Escolhida, 2004, and his critical writings have been collected in three books. His Fractura, 2003, is an essay on homosexuality in contemporary Portuguese literature. With his trilogy of short-stories Persona, 2000, his writing underwent a tectonic movement. See more at www.eduardopitta.com.

Ernesto Sarezale (aka Eugenio Alberdi) is a Basque writer and
performance poet based in London. He’s a member of the Gay London Writers and founder of Homophone, a series of queer poetry readings that happened in London in 2002. He also works with multimedia and concrete / web-based poetry.

Eamon Somers Sporadic contributions to: In-Dublin, Identity,
Treblin Times, Out, Gay Community News. Published stories in: Out, Tees Valley Writer, Quare Fellas, ABC Tales. Rehearsed readings (Chelsea Centre): A Quarter of Broken Biscuits, Baby I Love You. Novels (bottom drawer): Almost Awakening, Foolish Dream. Novel in progress: Foot is Dead. Publisher wanted.

Saradha Soobrayen is a poet and short story writer based in
London. She received an Eric Gregory award for poetry in 2004. Her short story “Three Flavours On A Plate” was published in KIN: New Fiction by Black and Asian Women (Serpent’s Tail, 2003).

Francesco Teo, 19, lives and studies photography in northen Italy. He is currently working on a project for an Italian national newspaper called the Memory of Photography, the Photography of our Memories.

Andrew Warburton is currently studying for an MA in Creative Writing and working on a fantasy novel for children. He can be contacted at andrewwarburton@hotmail.com.

River Wolton’s poems have been published in the UK and USA. Her play Egg and Spoon (about the lesbian baby-boom) was commissioned for the Cultural Festival of the Sydney Gay Games 2002. Her poem “Everything I Know About War” won the Red Pepper Poetry Competition 2004. She lives in Sheffield, where she teaches creative and reflective writing in schools and community projects.

Ajamu X is a lens-based media artist and community activist. He
has shown work in galleries and alternative spaces around the world.
He is co-founder of rukus! Federation, a company set up to celebrate and showcase the best in challenging work across all mediums by Black LGBT artists nationally and internationally.

Tamar Yoseloff’s first collection, Sweetheart (Slow Dancer,
1998) was a Poetry Book Society Special Commendation and the winner of the Aldeburgh Festival Prize. Her second collection, Barnard’s Star, is recently published by Enitharmon Press. She is the Programme Co-ordinator and a tutor for The Poetry School and also teaches creative writing at Birkbeck, University of London.