GALLA Festival AUTHORS
Tony Adams Greg Herren Joe Jervis Norm Kent Tony Adams
is one of the editors of Bilerico.com, the largest group LGBT blog in the world, and is the editor of the blog “Queer New York” on blogspot.com, supervising a staff of twenty writers. Adams also is a columnist with South Florida Gay News.Greg Herren’s award winning novel Murder
in the Rue
Chartres
was called "the most honest
lookat life in
post-Katrina New Orleans published thus far." Herren
is an author, anthropologist,
an HIV counselor/
educator, and an editor for Bold Strokes Books.Joe Jervis'
six year old blog, JoeMyGod, has won numerous awards including the Best LGBT Weblog Award.
A former Fort Lauderdale resident now residing in Manhattan, Jervis is the East Coast editor of Pride Magazine, the nation's official annual guide to gay pride.
Norm Kent
has been a
Fort Lauderdale criminal defense and constitutional rights attorney for the past 35 years and is now the publisher of South Florida Gay News (SFGN). Kent was the founder of the Express Gay News, and has served as the Executive Director of AIDS Project Florida.
Raymond Luczak
Lee Lynch KG MacGregor
Willam Mann
Raymond Luczak
is an award-winning deaf novelist, editor, playwright and screenwriter. His work has appeared in various anthologies and periodicals and sixteen of his plays have been workshopped or produced in three countries. His debut directorial feature, Ghosted, in now nearing completion in post production.
Lee Lynch
has been writing as an out lesbian since her work appeared in “The Ladder” in the 1960s. Her syndicated column, “The Amazon Trail,” has run nationally since 1986. Author if 14 novels, Lynch is a recipient of the 2009 Golden Crown Literary Society Trailblazer Award and the 2007 Alice B. Reader Award for Lesbian Fiction.KG MacGregor finds romance, whether in the rubble of an LA earthquake, the corridors of the US Capitol, or on the slopes of Mt. Kilimanjaro. MacGregor,
a Lammy and
3-time Golden
Crown award
winner, is author of the Shaken Series, Her newest novel, Worth Every Step was just named a Lambda Literary Award Finalist.William Mann
is a novelist, biographer, and Hollywood historian best known for his biography of Katharine Hepburn which was named one of the 100 Notable Books of 2006 by The New York Times. He has written several novels including The Men From the Boys, and several nonfiction works including the Lambda Literary Award winning biography of film star William Haines, Wisecracker.
David McConnell’s
Susan X Meagher
Steven Petrow
J.M. Redmann
David McConnell’s short fiction and journalism have appeared widely in magazines and anthologies. His novel The Firebrat came out in 2003 and his novel The Silver Hearted was recently published by Alyson Books. He’s currently
at work on Gay Panic, case studies of six murders.Susan X Meagher
started writing lesbian fiction by modestly deciding to write a 26-volume series on the lives and times of two college-aged women. The series was originally solely posted on the web but is now being published in book form with nine volumes available.
Susan has since published five novels and three short story collections.Steven Petrow
is an award-winning journalist and the manners columnist for The Huffington Post and Yahoo! Shine, and writes the nationally-syndicated column, "Queeries."
He is the author of five books, including The Essential Book of Gay Manners & Etiquette and the soon to be released Steven Petrow's Complete Gay & Lesbian Manners
J.M. Redmann has written five novels featuring New Orleans private detective Michele ‘Micky’ Knight. Her third book, The Intersection of Law & Desire won a Lambda Award, as well as being an Editor’s Choice of the San Francisco Chronicle.
Her latest, Death of a Dying Man, is nominated for a Lambda Literary award.
Dan Renzi
Steve Rothaus
Sebastian Stuart
Joyce Sweeney Dan Renzi
is a journalist living in Miami Beach. A former Editor of South Florida Blade, he is now a Miami correspondent for Us Magazine, and contributes travel articles to publications and web sites around the U.S. Dan is currently studying for the Foreign Service Exam.
Reporter Steve Rothaus covers gay and lesbian issues for The Miami Herald. His daily blog, Steve Rothaus' Gay South Florida, is one of The Herald's most popular, read by thousands of readers each week. He helped form a South Florida chapter of the National Lesbian & Gay Journalists Association and served the National Board for 5 years.
Sebastian Stuart
has written novels, plays, screenplays and has ghostwritten
in every genre imaginable. Dubbed "the poet laureate
of the Lower East Side" in the Village Voice, Stuart’s novels include The Mentor, 24-Karat Kids written with Dr. Judy Goldstein, Charm! by Kendall
Hart and The Hour Between.Joyce Sweeney is the author of fourteen novels for young adults. She is the recipient of the First Annual Delacorte Press Prize for an Outstanding Young Adult Novel, the Nevada State Reading Award and the Silver Medal in the 2006 Florida Book Awards. Joyce conducts creative writing workshops that have produced 26 published authors.
Jodi Turchin Ali Vali
Don Weise
Author soon
Jodi Turchin
is a Creative Writing, English, and Debate teacher with Broward County Public School. Turchin teaches adult Creative Writing classes and writes young adult novels. Her writing has appeared in Playgirl, the Sun-Sentinel, RAG magazine, South Florida Music News as well as other periodicals.
Ali Vali’s hometown of New Orleans is the cornerstone for almost every story she has written up to now. So far that includes The Devil Inside, The Devil Unleashed, Deal With the Devil, the soon to be released The Devil Be Damned, as well as Carly's Sound, Second Season, Blue Skies, and the 2009 Lambda Award Finalist Calling the Dead.
Don Weise
is the publisher of Alyson Books. Weise began his literary career by editing a book of essays by Gore Vidal called Sexually Speaking. He has also edited Black Like Us: A Century of Lesbian, Gay & Bisexual African American Fiction and Time on Two Crosses: The Collected Writings of Bayard Rustin, as well as Edmund White’s Arts and Letters.Presented by ArtsUnited and Stonewall Library & Archives, GALLA Festival is three days of presentations, workshops, seminars, and book fair, with some of the biggest names in LGBT literature and leading professionals in the industry.
Steven dos Santos
Joanne T. Lewis
Charles L. Ross
John Siegfried
Steven dos Santos
is a member of The Society of Children's Book Writers & Illustrators and is currently shopping his YA manuscript, Dagger, a gay James Bond meets Buffy the Vampire Slayer thrill-ride, while completing work on his latest novel, The Recruitment, a YA dystopian
tale also featuring a gay protagonist.
Joanne T. Lewis is the author of one published murder mystery, The Forbidden Room, and about seven unpublished novels. Her agent is presently shopping her murder mystery, Make Your Own Luck, which features a female attorney and her gay brother. Lewis is excited to be finishing her first historical fiction novel, The Lantern.
Charles L. Ross was art director of Architectural Digest from 1979-1985. He also cofounded Veranda and was its art director and editor through 2004. His writing has appeared in GQ, Christopher Street, The Advocate and in the anthology Quickies and he has curated or co-curated several exhibitions for Stonewall’s Museum
John Siegfried
is a retired pediatrician, whose short story "Red Clay Reverie" was published in Sunscripts, an anthology from the Suncoast Writers’ Conference.
Gay an' Gray, his regular column, appears in the periodical Letters From Camp Rehoboth.
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