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Akkas Al-Ali was born in 1979. He is a writer, playwright and actor living in London. His plays have been showcased around London and the South-East. He writes for MOC, a magazine aimed at gay men of colour. His weblog, A Hand Full of Stars, is at www.gr8gatsby.blogspot.com

Jake Arnott is the author of three novels. His first novel, The Long Firm, was filmed for BBC Television. He Kills Coppers was published in 2001, and truecrime in 2003.  "God" first appeared in The Guardian.

Adam Bala was born in London and has lived most of his life in the city. He has worked in the civil service, publishing and the NHS.

Cabello/Carceller are the collaborative artists Helena Cabello and Ana Carceller. They are based in Madrid.

Bec Chalkley is a freelance writer, photographer and advocate. Her work has been published in Diva and Plan B magazines. Bec was Live Music Editor for www.realbrighton.com website, which she continues to contribute to. Bec lives in Brighton. Contact: [email protected].

Wei Kiat Chen was born in Singapore and currently lives in London. He studied Literature at The University of York before undertaking a Masters in Creative Writing at The University of Sydney, Australia. He has won a number of top prizes in writing competitions and was invited to participate in RANT, a literary reading that was part of the Cultural Festival of the Sydney Gay and Lesbian Mardi Gras 2003.

Phyllis Christopher recently released the DVD Sextrospective: A Decade with San Francisco’s Sexiest Lesbians, her collection of photographs documenting the lesbian sexual revolution of the 1990s. Her photographs appear in the books Nothing But The Girl – The Blatant Lesbian Image, and I Am My Lover – Women Pleasure Themselves, amongst others. Her work can be viewed online at www.thesexystuff.com and www.phyllischristopher.com

Ailbhe Darcy has a degree in English and French from University
College Dublin, where she helped to run the LGB Society. She is completing an MA in Publishing at London College of Communication and working to develop Chroma’s international reach. She has written for a broad range of magazines and journals.

S Dass started writing 6 months ago. She is working on a film short
and a book of short stories. She lives in the UK. The poem 'falter' is dedicated to Van Nair.

Minke Douwesz was born in 1962. Her sizable debut novel, Strict, was published in Holland in 2003 and was an immediate success. The book was reprinted four times within a year. Minke Douwesz is a psychiatrist.

Paul Gardiner moved to London about 5 years ago. He’s produced illustrations for a range of clients and is currently working to get more of a foothold in the editorial market. Paul also works as a graphic designer and has an interest in Photography and the Moving Image. He lives in Stoke Newington with his long suffering boyfriend.

Richard Goodson is currently writing a collection of poems about the male nude for a PhD in Creative Writing. For the past seven years he has taught English to asylum-seekers in an inner-city college in Nottingham. He performs as part of a group called DIY Poets.

Rosemary Harris was commissioned for Apples & Snakes’ “Verbaleyes” (2004) and for 2005’s “Broken Words” national tour. She has performed at Glastonbury, BAC, Soho Writers’ Festival and on Radio 3. Her work appears in Poetry London and Orbis. In 2004, Rosemary won first prize in Middlesex University International Poetry Competition.

Kobi Israel began his exploration of photography in 1994 when he
was a flight attendant. In 1996, he studied cinematography at the New York Film Academy, and returned to Tel-Aviv to complete a degree at Camera Obscura, the school of visual arts in Tel-Aviv. Kobi settled in London in 2002. He was a finalist in the “Schweppes Photographic Portrait Prize 2003” at the National Portrait Gallery in London. His most recent book is Intimate Strangers. See more at www.kobi-israel.com.

Ashley Jones is a part time lecturer of photography at Oaklands
College. She graduated from the University of Derby in 1997 with a
degree in photographic studies, after which, she lived in the States where amongst other things she completed a three-month internship at Light Works Photography Lab. Now she lives and works in London.

Paul Kane is a graduate of the University of Birmingham (MSc. Cognitive Science) who now lives and works in Manchester. Work involves web design, teaching and writing; life and leisure involves various ludic and celivagous activities.

Let Me Feel Your Finger First (LMFYFF) is a London based comic art collective. Published works include a gasp, a glitch and a halting gait (1998), ‘Yep! Yep! Yep!’ (1999) and ‘Greenhorn’  (2000). The animated short, “Homo Zombies” has been screened at shows and festivals around the world, and released on the DVD compilation Bloody Gays by Films de l’ange in 2005. The Uncle Hans-Peter Party will take place at a London venue in early 2006. See more at www.letmefeelyourfingerfirst.com

Peter McGraith, writer, designer, sometime activist, aspiring aerialist and prospective adoptive parent, grew up poor with pretentions in Scotland, disdainful of the creeping influence of American English and culture. The “Long Losing” comes from recent Christmases spent in Seattle. He is interested in Jason Sellards’ hot little butt.

Emily Moreton is a 23-year old graduate of the University of Warwick, with a degree in Education Studies. She has worked as a receptionist, an English teacher, a waitress and a fake patient for medical school exams, and is currently a course secretary. She writes for RESPECT Refugee Charity’s e-zine.

Ruth O’Callaghan’s publications include The London Magazine, Ambit, Magma, and Poetry Salzburg Review and anthologies Not For The Academy and Vision and Statement for the Prosecution. She has read her work at Poetry Cafe, Torriano, Salisbury House and in Amsterdam, as well as at Richmond’ s Book Now Literary Festival.

JP Owen was born in Merseyside in 1972. She has three degrees, two involving English Literature. She has been an advice worker, a university librarian, and more recently a Web site manager. She lives in South East London with two cats and a girlfriend.

Heena Patel lives and works in Manchester. In her spare time she
helps to put on queer events and is in a group of undead gender-bending dancers called Dragula. See www.kaffequeeria.org.uk

Selina Rodrigues has had poetry published in the Redbeck Anthology of British South Asian Poetry and Masala, an anthology of Asian verse for children published by Macmillan, and various magazines.

Helen Sandler is the director of the York Lesbian Arts Festival
(www.ylaf.org.uk) and is books editor of Diva magazine. She has written two novels, Big Deal and The Touch Typist, and edited three short story anthologies for Diva Books, two of which won Lambda Literary awards. Two of her poems are in Suspect Thoughts #15. More at www.helensandler.co.uk

Parminder Sekhon is a photographer and artistic director of Mehtab Theatre Company. Her last show: The Maharajah’s Daughters (2003) ran to great acclaim at Watermans. She also works in health promotion in the South Asian Lesbian and Gay communities, and promotes visibility of these communities through photography.

Joshua Sofaer is a live artist, writer and Research Fellow at ResCen, the Centre for Research into Creation in the Performing Arts at Middlesex University. Recent projects include Tate Scavengers, a scavenger hunt and exhibition in the Turbine Hall of Tate Modern this summer. The website www.joshuasofaer.com archives recent works.

Raffaele Teo, graphic designer, illustrator and artist, has exhibited
throughout Europe. After having taken what he called ‘a sabbatical
decade’, he is currently working on his next project, Parthenopee.

Fabian Thomas is an actor, director, poet, writer, singer, communications consultant, Hospitality / Customer Service Trainer and HIV / AIDS Educator and Project Manager. His writing has been previously published in Sojourner: Black Gay Voices (Other Countries), Bad Boys, Gents and Barbarians and Fighting Words.

Laura Vroomen was born in the Netherlands and now lives in London. After completing a doctorate on women and popular music, she retrained as a translator. She has worked as a full-time translator since, specialising in literary and financial translation.

Andrew Warburton is a 24-year-old writer currently applying for English-teaching jobs in Japan. His poem “The Waiter” appeared in Chroma Issue 2 and his erotic short story “Hustler” will feature in a forthcoming anthology. He is working on his first novel. Contact him at [email protected]

Gregory Woods is Professor of Gay and Lesbian Studies at Nottingham Trent University. His books include Articulate Flesh: Male Homo-eroticism and Modern Poetry (1987) and A History of Gay Literature: The Male Tradition (1998), both from Yale University Press. His latest poetry collection is The District Commissioner’s Dreams (Carcanet, 2002).