KEVIN KILLIAN is the editor of the new literary journal, Mirage. He has published a book of prose fiction, Desiree, and his essays have appeared in Soup, Poetry Flash, and Five Fingers Review. He was born on Long Island, attended Fordham University and the State University of New York (Stony Brook), and lives in San Francisco where he is writing a series of memoirs, Bedrooms Have Windows.
ETHAN MORDDEN was born in Heavensville, Pennsylvania, and lives in New York City. He is the author of thirteen works of nonfiction, two collections of stories, I’ve a Feeling We’re Not in Kansas Anymore and Buddies, and a novel, One Last Waltz. His column, “Is I here a Book in This?,” has appeared in Christopher Street, and his articles have been published in Opera News, The New York Times, Harper’s Bazaar, and The Baum Bugle.
WALLACE PARR has lived in New York City and now resides in San Francisco where he attends Robert Gluck’s Writers’ Workshop. His first published story recently appeared in Mirage.
FELICE PICANO is publisher of the SeaHorse Press and co-publisher of the Gay Presses of New York. He lives in New York City and Fire Island Pines. His first novel, Smart As the Devil, was nominated for an Ernest Hemingway Award. He is the author of six other novels, Eyes, The Mesmerist, The Lure, An Asian Minor, Late in the Season, and House of Cards, two books of poetry, The Deformity Lover and Window Elegies, a collection of stories, Slashed to Ribbons in Defense of Love, a volume of memoirs, Ambidextrous, and a play, “Immortal!” He edited an anthology of gay fiction, A True Likeness, and his poems, reviews, and stories have been published in Christopher Street, The Advocate, Ms, OMNI, and The Connecticut Poetry Review. He is currently writing a screenplay based on Eyes, a novel, E.D.G.E. Seven, and the second volume of his memoirs, Men Who Loved Me, which includes his narrative, “The Most Golden Bulgari.”
RICHARD UMANS grew up in suburban Boston and lived in New York City. His fiction appeared in Christopher Street, The James White Review, and in the anthology, A True Likeness, and his articles were published in The New York Native and The Advocate. He died of an AIDS-related illness on February 11, 1985. The Richard S. Umans Foundation has been established in his honor to support writers of gay fiction.
EDMUND WHITE is the author of four novels, Forgetting Elena, Nocturnes for the King of Naples, A Boy’s Own Story, Caracole, and two works of nonfiction, The Joy of Gay Sex (with Dr. Charles Silverstein) and States of Desire. His stories, reviews, and essays have appeared in The New York Times Book Review, The Washington Post, The Village Voice, Art in America, Rolling Stone, The Nation, and Christopher Street. He is the recipient of a Guggenheim Fellowship, an Ingram-Merrill Award, and an Award for Literature from the American Academy of Arts and Letters. Born in Cincinnati, he studied at the University of Michigan, and now lives in Paris where he is a contributing editor to Vogue magazine and is writing a novel, The Beautiful Room Is Empty.
AUTHOR UPDATE
April 20, 2019
In preparing this volume as an e-book, the current status of the Authors was investigated. Most of the writers lived in New York or San Francisco upon original publication in the fall of 1986. As a practical matter, all submissions would have been completed and approved by late 1985 — at a time when AIDS was starting to take a devastating toll on the gay community and its artists. Richard Umans, author of "Speech", the first work presented, died of AIDS complications before publication. The editor, George Stambolian, died five years later, in 1991. In that same brief, half of the authors here had died, all of them from AIDS complications. Wallace Parr's story "Street Star" was the only one ever published by the budding talent.
Here is the full roll call of those lost and—happily—the survivors, too.
RICHARD UMANS (born September 13, 1947 — February 11, 1985, New York City) ; died of AIDS at age 37.
SAM D’ALLESANDRO (born Richard Anderson) (April 3, 1956 – February 3, 1988) ; died of AIDS at age 31
MICHAEL GRUMLEY (July 6, 1942 – April 28, 1988, New York City) ; died of AIDS at age 46
ROBERT FERRO (October 21, 1941 – July 11, 1988, New York City) ; died of AIDS at age 46
JOHN FOX (May 26, 1952 – August 14, 1990, New York City) ; died of AIDS at age 38.
C. F. ("Charles Frederick") BORGMAN (August 21, 1950 - August 21, 1999) ; died at age 49.
GEORGE STAMBOLIAN (born April 10, 1938 – December 22, 1991, New York City) ; died of AIDS at age 53.
RICHARD HALL (born Richard Walter Hirschfield) (November 26, 1926 — October 29, 1992) ; died of AIDS at age 66
WALLACE PARR status unknown; assumed perished mid-1980s; "Street Star" seems to be the only published work
EDMUND WHITE (January 16, 1940 — ) ; still active at age 79
BRUCE BOONE (1940? — ) ; still active at age 79
ANDREW HOLLERAN [pseud of Eric Garber] (1943 — ) ; still active at age 76
FELICE PICANO(February 22, 1944 — ) ; still active at age 75
ETHAN MORDDEN (January 27, 1947 — ) ; still active at age 72
ROBERT GLUCK (1947 — ) ; still active at age 72
BRAD GOOCH (January 31, 1952 — ) ; still active at age 67
KEVIN KILLIAN (December 24, 1952 — ) ; still active at age 67
DENNIS COOPER (January 10, 1953 — ) ; still active at age 66
PATRICK HOCTEL ; still active in late-60s
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