My Diva: 65 Gay Men on the Women Who Inspire Them

Contributors

289 Contributors Michael J. Andrews works for a family-owned international advertising firm as a senior account manager working with fashion and electronics clients. A New School graduate in poetry in 2006, Andrews has been published in www.thundersandwich.com, Cream City Review, and Yuan Yang. He has read at Homo Text, a Dixon Place reading series, as well as Earshot out of Williamsburg, Brooklyn . He is currently the reader for First Proof, the literary supplement for BOMB magazine. He lives in Brooklyn with his partner, Craig. LawrenceApplebaum, a native New Yorker, is an editor for Mudfish, a poetry and art journal. He has been nominated for three Pushcart Prizes, most recently for his poem in Skidrow Penthouse. His photography has been featured in Playbill and TheaterWeek, as well as on book covers. He is currently at work on his first novel. David Bergman is the editor or author of over a dozen books. Most recently, he edited Gay American Autobiography (University of Wisconsin Press, 2009) and translated with Katia Sainson the selected poems of Jean Sénac (Sheep Meadow, 2009). He is the author of The Violet Hour: The Violet Quill and the Making of Gay Culture (Columbia University Press, 2004). His most recent book of poetry is Heroic Measures (Ohio State University Press, 1998) and he won the George Elliston Prize for Cracking the Code (Ohio State University Press, 1985). He lives in Baltimore and teaches at Towson University. 290 Mark Bibbins is the author of two books of poems: Sky Lounge (Graywolf, 2003), which received a Lambda Literary Award, and The Dance of No Hard Feelings (Copper Canyon, 2009). He teaches in the graduate writing program at the New School, where he also cofounded LIT magazine. He was a 2005 New York Foundation for the Arts poetry fellow. His poems have appeared in Poetry, Paris Review , Boston Review, Tin House, and jubilat, and in such anthologies as The Best American Poetry 2004 (Scribner, 2004), Great American Prose Poems (Scribner, 2003), Third Rail: The Poetry of Rock and Roll (MTV Books, 2007), and Legitimate Dangers: American Poets of the New Century (Sarabande Books, 2006). Richard Blanco was made in Cuba, assembled in Spain, and imported to the United States—meaning his mother, seven months pregnant, and the rest of the family arrived as exiles from Cuba to Madrid, where he was born. Only forty-five days later, the family emigrated once more and settled in New York City, then eventually in Miami, where he was raised and educated. His acclaimed first book, City of a Hundred Fires (University of Pittsburgh Press, 1998), explores the yearnings and negotiation of cultural identity as a Cuban American, and received the prestigious Agnes Starrett Poetry Prize from the University of Pittsburgh Press. His second book, Directions to the Beach of the Dead (University of Arizona Press, 2005) won the 2006 PEN/American Beyond Margins Award for its continued exploration of the universal themes of home and place. Blanco is currently working on a nonfiction collection of essays about growing up in Miami, where he now lives. Michael Broder received his MFA from the Creative Writing Program at New York University in 2005. His work has appeared in Court Green, Columbia Poetry Review, BLOOM, Painted Bride Quarterly , and other journals, as well as in the anthology This New Breed (Windstorm Creative, 2004). He is working on a doctorate in classical studies at the Graduate Center of the City University of New York and is a City University of New York Writing Fellow. JerichoBrown worked as speechwriter for the mayor of New Orleans before receiving his PhD in creative writing and literature from the University of Houston. He also holds an MFA from the University of New Orleans and a BA from Dillard University. His poems have appeared or are forthcoming in The Iowa Review, jubilat, New England Review, Prairie Schooner, and several other journals and anthologies . The recipient of a Cave Canem Fellowship, two scholarships to the Bread Loaf Writer’s Conference, and two travel fellowships to Contr ibutor s 291 the Krakow Poetry Seminar in Poland, Brown now serves as assistant editor at Callaloo and teaches creative writing as assistant professor of English at the University of San Diego. His first book, Please, was published by New Issues in 2008. RegieCabico is a spoken-word pioneer, having won the 1993 Nuyorican Poets Cafe Grand Slam Championship, and has appeared...