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Joanna Cagan writes frequently about sports business for The Village Voice. Her work has appeared in The New York Times Magazine, The Nation, In These Times and elsewhere. She's co-author of the book Field of Schemes: How The Great Stadium Swindle Turns Public Money Into Private Profit (www.fieldofschemes.com). |
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Hooksexup consulting editor Ada Calhoun has been a frequent contributor to the New York Times Book Review, a freelancer for Arts & Leisure, a contributing editor and theater critic at New York magazine and an editorial assistant at Vogue. She is also the editor-in-chief of Babble.com. |
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Diane Campese is currently a junior at New York University's Gallatin School of Individualized Study. She is pursuing a Bachelor's in "Aural/Visual Communications" (read: How to Capture Sex, Drugs, and Rock 'n Roll on Film). Although she is sweeter than pecan pie and funnier than Henny Youngman, Diane admits to being a pervert and attributes this to her Catholic upbringing. Her favorite Christmas song is "Justify My Love." |
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Rafael Campo teaches and practices general internal medicine at Harvard Medical School and Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center in Boston. He is the author of The Other Man Was Me, which won the 1993 National Poetry Series Award; What the Body Told, which won a Lambda Literary Award; and The Poetry of Healing: A Doctor's Education in Empathy, Identity, and Desire, a collection of essays which also won a Lambda Literary Award, for memoir. His poetry and prose have appeared in many magazines and anthologies, including Best American Poetry 1995. His most recent book is the collection of poems, Diva. |
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Thomas Carabasi's fine art photography has been exhibited both nationally and internationally, including shows in Australia, Germany and Italy. Sarasota's Ringling Museum, Tucson's Center for Creative Photography, the Philadelphia Museum of Art and the Museo Ken Damy in Italy all carry his work in their collections. Popular Photography, ZOOM Magazine, Mirabella, Interiors, The New York Times and The London Independent newspaper have published his photography. |
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Avis Cardella is a freelance writer who specializes in the areas of pop culture, fashion and photography. Her work has appeared in The New York Times, Soho Journal, Marie Claire, Fashion Reporter, Women's Wear Daily, Picture and Britain's Frank, among others. Prior to her writing career, she worked as a model. She recently finished writing her first novel. |
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Elinor Carucci was born in Jerusalem in 1971. After two years of service in the Israeli army, Carucci received her B.F.A. in photography from the Bezalel Academy of Art and Design in 1995. Her exhibitions include Princeton University, The National Arts Club in New York and the Ramat-Gan Museum in Tel Aviv. |
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Lisa Carver wrote a book called Dancing Queen, published the magazine Rollerderby and started the touring vaudeville act Suckdog. She's written for Hustler, Index, Icon, Feed, Newsday and Playboy, among others. She is currently working on the videomagazine This Is Pop! She never went to college but has been to a lot of countries and tried a lot of drugs. She feels fantastic. |
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Ana Castillo is an award-winning poet, novelist, editor and translator. Among her numerous books are the novels The Mixquiahuala Letters, So Far From God, My Daughter, My Son, The Eagle, The Dove: An Aztec Chant, and her newest book of poems, I Ask the Impossible. She lives in her hometown Chicago with her son, Marcel Ramón. For more, see AnaCastillo.com. |
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Benjamin Cavell is a former collegiate boxer and the author of Rumble, Young Man, Rumble: Stories. |
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Clifford Chase is the author of The Hurry-Up Song: A Memoir of Losing My Brother and the editor of Queer 13: Lesbian and Gay Writers Recall Seventh Grade, published in 1998. His writing has also appeared in Newsweek, The Village Voice, Threepenny Review and Boulevard. |
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Ashwini K. Chhabra is a freelance writer living in New York City, where he occasionally practices corporate law. His writing has also appeared in
Salon. |
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Michelle Chihara is a freelance writer living, for the moment, in Orange County, California. Her work has appeared in alternative weekly newspapers such as the Boston Phoenix and the New Haven Advocate, as well as in Mother Jones magazine.She is currently getting an MFA in fiction at UC-Irvine. |
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Justin Chin is the author of Bite Hard and Mongrel: Essays, Diatribes and Pranks. |
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Olindo Romeo Chiocca, a former civil engineer, moved out of traffic-clogged Toronto in 1995 to live in Nelson, British Columbia (population: 9000, traffic lights: 6). His photographs have been exhibited at the Dancing Bear Inn and the Sam Iz Datt Galleries in his now-hometown. |
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Since documenting the loss of her virginity to her gynecologist for Jane in 2000 under the pseudonym "Jenny", Su Ciampa has written for ARTNews, Salon and Time Out New York as well as sundry feminist quarterlies and Canadian zines. She used to live with nuns. She rides a folding bike. She likes the Brooklyn Bridge but thinks the Manhattan doesn't get its due.
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Circe is a British photographer currently residing in NYC. Her photographs have been published in British Elle, British Vogue, Jane, Jack, Vibe, Fader, Richardson. When she's not making friends with animals, she is shooting portraits for British and US publications.
For more information, visit her website: www.circephoto.com |
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Barron Claiborne started taking photographs when he was ten. Sometimes called a formalist, he shoots music videos and is in the midst of a project photographing African women. He resides in Manhattan. |
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A recent graduate of the Columbia School of Journalism, Justin
Clark writes regularly for the L.A. Weekly and numerous design magazines. He is a contributing editor at Plenty. |
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Cheryl Clarke was born in Washington, D.C. in 1947. She is a black lesbian-feminist and author of four books of poetry. Her most recent book, Experimental Love, was nominated for a 1994 Lambda Award for Poetry. She is currently working on a new manuscript of poems entitled "Corridors of Nostalgia." She lives and writes in Jersey City, New Jersey. |
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Sandy Cleary is a singer, actor and sometime drag king living in New York City. A student of gender/art/culture, she is currently curating a retrospective exhibition on the 1980s British club icon/fashion designer/performance artist Leigh Bowery. You can also catch her reviews on newmuseum.org/curators_ picks. |
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Christen Clifford is a writer and performer in New York. Her work has appeared in Salon.com, the New York Press, and Blue. Her solo performance 17 Guys I Fucked was produced at The Culture Project and the Oni Gallery. She was the creator of HEAT: Sexy Stories and Burlesque and is currently working toward an MFA from The New School. |
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With his brother, Joel, Ethan Coen has produced, written and directed the films Fargo, Barton Fink, Blood Simple, Raising Arizona, Miller's Crossing, The Hudsucker Proxy, The Big Lebowski, the Oscar Award-winning Fargo, and O Brother, Where Art Thou? He is the author of a short story collection, Gates Of Eden. He lives in New York.
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Judy Cole, former Grand Poobah of Playgirl magazine, is currently working as a freelancer in New York City. Her first book, Playing For Keeps: Dating, Seducing & (Maybe) Marrying the Modern Man, was published in 1997. |
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Born 1954 in Zurich, Michel Comte made a name for himself as a fashion photographer and portraitist. In recent years he has put the main emphasis of his work on museum and gallery projects, and especially on photo reports for the International Committee of the Red Cross. He currently lives in New York. |
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Liz Conlon is an artist who resides in Brooklyn, NY. Educated at Parsons School of Design, she has shown her work at Artists Space, Lancaster Museum of Art, and Bingo Hall, among others. |
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Dana Cook is a Toronto freelance editor and indexer who collects "literary encounters" most of which are not sexual. His compilations have appeared in The Hemingway Review, DHARMA beat (a Jack Kerouac newszine), James Joyce Literary Supplement and time-sense, an electronic quarterly on the art of Gertrude Stein. |
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Bernard Cooper's most recent book is Truth Serum. "Between The Sheets" is from the short story collection Guess Again. Mr. Cooper's work has appeared in Harper's, The Paris Review, The Best American Essays of 1995, 1997, 1998 and elsewhere. He is the recipient of a 1999 Guggenheim Fellowship. |
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Dennis Cooper is the author of the novels Closer (co-winner of the Ferro-Grumley Award for Fiction), Frisk, Try, and Guide. His fifth and most recent novel, Period, was published in the winter of 1999. All Ears, a collection of cultural criticism, rants, and celebrity interviews was published in Spring 1999. He has collaborated with artists on three projects: Horror Hospital Unplugged (with Keith Mayerson), Jerk (with Nayland Blake) and Weird Little Boy (with John Zorn, Mike Patton and others). He lives in Los Angeles. |
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John F. Cooper is a Manhattan-based photographer whose work has appeared in Allure, Elle, GQ, Mademoiselle, Seventeen, and Vogue, as well as the anthologies Nude York and Sensual Images. His experiments with Polaroid transfers have also gained him a place in the Polaroid Permanent Collection. |
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Enamored by the then nascent internet in the early 1990's, and eager to make piles of money on his cache of pornography, Bob Coulter registered the domain crazybabe.com. Needing to fill the site with original content, and not liking much that was out there, Bob picked up a Nikon Cool Pics 990 and started taking pictures. Whether Bob's photography can be called "art" or something irredeemably salacious is up to you. |
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Darcy Cosper is a writer and book reviewer. Her work has appeared in publications including The New York Times Book Review, Bookforum, Village Voice, Hooksexup, and GQ, and in the anthologies Full Frontal Fiction and the forthcoming Sex & Sensibility. Her first novel, Wedding Season, was published by Crown in March 2004. |
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Jeremy Countryman hails from New Jersey. He lives in Gambier, Ohio where he works as a freelance researcher and editor. His poems have appeared in AGNI, The Nebraska Review, LIT and The Journal. |
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Carmine Covelli lives in Brooklyn, NY with his one true love Adrienne and their cat Pickles. He
makes videos and short films, paints, writes things, plays music, sings, acts and dances. That makes him a septuple threat. But he's not threatening, he's actually very nice. Unless you provoke him or attempt to destroy something he loves. Or disrespect him or his family. His website is https://www.carminecovelli.com. |
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Renee Cox's photography has been seen in many exhibitions of art about gender and race, including the Whitney Museum's "Black Male," the Aldrich Museum's "No Doubt: African-American Artists in the '90s" and the New Museum of Contemporary Art's "Picturing the Modern Amazon." She was selected for the 1999 Venice Bienalle and has received grants for photography from the Ford Foundation, among many others. |
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Kate Coyne was formerly a gossip scribe for the Page Six column of The New York Post and currently serves as the entertainment editor for Good Housekeeping. She lives in New York with a man and a dog, whom she rarely ever confuses. |
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Ivan Coyote is a writer and storyteller who was born and raised in the Yukon and now lives in Vancouver. Ivan was a founding member of Taste This, the live storytelling troupe that penned the award-winning Boys Like Her in 1998. Ivan also wrote Close to Spiderman, a collection of short stories, and Dirty Knees, which is due out in the spring of 2002 (Arsenal Pulp Press). She was recently awarded the Danuta Gleed Award for short fiction (second prize) by the Writer's Guild of Canada, and is shortlisted for this year's Western Magazine Award for personal narrative. Ivan's favorite color is orange. |
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Photographer Jessica Craig-Martin has been a regular contributor to Vogue since 1997. After holding editorial positions at British Vogue, The Sunday Telegraph and Vanity Fair, she switched entirely to a career as a photographer. Her work has been shown at the Pat Hearn Gallery, White Columns, the Boesky Kallery Gallery and the New Museum of Contemporary Art. She has had a solo exhibit at Interim Art and has an upcoming show at the Dan Weinberg Gallery. She also contributes regularly to The New York Times Magazine, Elle Décor and Art & Auction, and is a contributing editor at Index. |
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Elizabeth Crane's work has been featured in publications including The Sycamore Review, Washington Square, New York Stories, Book, The Florida Review, Eclipse, Bridge Magazine, Sonora Review and the Chicago Reader. She is the winner of the Chicago Public Library's 21st Century Award. Her debut story collection, When the Messenger Is Hot, was published by Little, Brown in January 2003. Her second collection is due from Little, Brown in 2005. A New York City native, she now lives in Chicago. |
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Erin Cressida Wilson is an award winning and internationally produced playwright, screenwriter and a Professor in the Literary Arts Program at Brown University. She won the 2003 Independent Spirit Award for her screenplay, Secretary, starring James Spader and Maggie Gyllenhaal. Her twenty plays have been produced regionally, Off Broadway, and abroad — at such stages as The Mark Taper Forum, the Brooklyn Academy of Music, Naked Angels, The Magic Theatre, Playwright Horizons, The New York Shakespeare Festival, The Traverse Theatre in Edinburgh, and The New Grove in London. She co-authored The Erotica Project with Lillian Ann Slugocki, published by Cleis Press. She is writing the screenplay for the biopic of photographer Diane Arbus, produced by Ed Pressman (Reversal of Fortune) and Bonnie Timmerman (Death and The Maiden), directed by Stephen Shainberg (Secretary). Her first novel will be published in 2005 by Simon & Schuster. |
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Quentin Crisp reluctantly left the womb on Christmas Day, 1908 in Surrey, England. He made a living as a commercial artist, an artist's model and an author. Crisp is best known for his autobiographies, The Naked Civil Servant, How to Become a Virgin and most recently, Resident Alien. He appeared in the films Orlando, The Bride, Philadelphia and To Wong Fu, Thanks for Everything, Julie Newmar. He once promised Penny Arcade that he would live to be one hundred and later phoned her to be released from the pledge. Mr. Crisp believed that "sex is a mistake." |
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Scott Cunningham currently lives and works in the Midwest, New York and the South of France. He received his B.A. from Bowling Green, Ohio and his M.F.A from Long Island University, New York. At the present time he is spending the summer in the South of France doing extensive research for his upcoming book Autoroute du Soleil. |
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Maggie Cutler has written about politics, sex and women under many different names for many different media. |
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Jane Czyzselska spends most of her time writing for British publications, including The Guardian, Attitude, TimeOut, Frank, Sybil, Bizarre and Diva. When she's not tied to her PC, she works with the maverick art organization, . In her free time, she makes regular British television and radio appearances as a cultural/sex critic. . |
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