#1 What’s your (pen) name and where do you live? My name is Cameron Van Sant and I live in Sacramento, California, which according to one Wikipedia page, is the sixth gayest city in America, and easily the gayest American city you’ve never heard of. #2 Who is a character from a TV show or a book that you’ve always resonated with? When I was a kid watching Sailor Moon, Sailor Uranus was my butch ideal. I shipped her and Sailor Neptune long before I knew what shipping was. Since I later figured out I am a man, it cracks…
#1 What’s your (pen) name and where do you live? My name is Aila Alvina Boyd and I live in a quaint town in Virginia in the U.S. #2 Who is a character from a TV show or a book that you’ve always resonated with? My absolute favourite television character is Annalise Keating from How to Get Away with Murder. When I watched the show when it first premiered, I was immediately blown away by how determined she was. She always seems to go all in with whatever it is she’s doing and that really makes for an interesting…
#1 What’s your (pen) name and where do you live? I’m M. Hollis and I live in the south of Brazil. #2 Who is a character from a TV show or a book that you’ve always resonated with? From movies I can say Kat from 10 Things I Hate About You was a character I always identified with. I tend to be grumpy all the time and people say that I look like I want to murder someone all the time, but it’s just my face! And I’m also extremely passionate about the things I believe in. More recently,…
#1 What’s your (pen) name and where do you live? I live in Offenbach, near Frankfurt am Main, Germany. My pen name for this anthology is Pascal J. Ellen. I sometimes write things under my real name too, but this is my first fictional work so I thought I’d come up with a name especially for this. Pascal is the name my mother always told me she would have named me if I was a boy. But oh well, what do parents know about the gender of their kids anyway, huh 😉 #2 Who is a character from a…
#1 What’s your (pen) name and where do you live? My name is Andrew L. Huerta and I live in Tucson, Arizona. #2 Where is your favorite place to go on a weekday afternoon when you have no plans or obligations? Tucson is home to the DeGrazia Gallery of the Sun, which houses the extensive work of famous Southwest artist, Ettore “Ted” DeGrazia. Whenever I have some free time, I like to visit the gallery. In 2012 I completed my doctoral work in Education, and when I needed to get away from my research and writing, I would go…
#1 What’s your (pen) name and where do you live? I write under the name Xan West, and I live in Oakland, California. #2 Who is a character from a TV show or a book that you’ve always resonated with? I find pieces of myself in various characters, but rarely come close to seeing my whole self in a character. Which is one of the reasons I write what I do, to write folks like me into the story. One thing I often do when I read, instead of thinking about what character is like me, is to think…
#1 What’s your (pen) name and where do you live? It’s a messy situation. My first two novels were published as Sophia French, which is my legal name, and my third as Eden S. French, which is my preferred name. But I’ve recently gotten engaged to my girlfriend, the artist Wren Fay, and will be taking her name—so my future work will be published as Eden Sophia Fay. A publicist’s nightmare, I’m sure. I live in Hobart. That’s a messy situation too, but only because we keep leaving our clothes on the floor. #2 Who is a character from…
“One does not always stay intact.” —Judith Butler, Undoing Gender Thoughts I’m not quite sure who I am. That’s why I write fiction. I can fade into a story and express myself through multiple voices. It’s also why I’m an academic. There’s some comfort working in a web of scholarship, made intricate with theory, forever weaving and reinforcing. Blogging like this, however, is hard. I need to find a voice without relying on the imaginative sorcery of fiction or the theoretical cunning of academia. I need to figure out how to speak as me. Self is my least fluent language.…
#1 What’s your (pen) name and where do you live? I’m A.P. Raymond. Call me Alex. My pronouns are they/he – I like both. I’m from the Pioneer Valley in Massachusetts. #2 What’s your favorite guilty pleasure? Chocolate, easily. But a good rich milk chocolate. Most American-produced milk chocolates are mediocre compared to the Canadian/international versions I’ve been lucky enough to get my hands on. #3 Who’s your favorite superhero, dead or alive – and why? Robin Hood has been my hero since I was seven years old. We had just gotten a VCR when I came down…
#1 What’s your (pen) name and where do you live? My name is E H Timms and I live in the south west corner of the UK, in a tiny village near Swindon. #2 What’s your favorite guilty pleasure? Sometimes I like to curl up in a nest of blankets with a plate of finger food and reread a familiar book even though I have a stack of new books staring resentfully at me. #3 Who’s your favorite superhero, dead or alive – and why? I’ve never really connected with traditional superheroes. The closest I come is Discworld’s…