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Matt Haber has written for Spin, Entertainment Weekly, New York, Salon.com, and Wired. He lives in Brooklyn and writes for https://www.lowculture.com |
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Marcellus Hall is a freelance illustrator from Minnesota who lives in New York. His work has appeared in The New Yorker, The New York Times, Time Magazine, Sports Illustrated, and The Atlantic Monthly among others. He also moonlights as a musician with the band White Hassle. Prior to that, Hall played with the band Railroad Jerk. To see more of his work, please visit www.marcellushall.com. |
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Actress and comedian Chelsea Handler was born in Livingston, New Jersey and has toured the country doing stand-up. Now settled in Los Angeles, she regularly performs live at the Comedy Store and Improv. She has also participated at the Montreal Comedy Festival and the Aspen Comedy Festival. Handler is the new Tonight Show correspondent and one of the stars on Oxygen’s hit comedy Girls Behaving Badly. Chelsea has guest-starred on programs such as Reno 911, Spy TV, My Wife and Kids, The Bernie Mac Show, and The Practice. She most recently appeared on The Tonight Show with Jay Leno. Her stand-up has also been televised on VH1’s Love Lounge, Comedy Central’s Premium Blend, and HBO’s broadcast of the Aspen Comedy Festival. She can be seen weekly as a regular commentator on E!. For more information, please visit Chelsea Handler’s website at www.chelsea-handler.com. |
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Aaron Hamburger studies writing and teaches at Columbia University. He's currently working on a book of stories about Americans having sex in Eastern Europe titled Garage Sale. |
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James Hannaham is a writer and actor whose work has appeared in The Village Voice, Spin, Out and Us Magazine and is finishing a short story collection, Ooh Chee Chee Wah Wah. A founding member of the performance troupe Elevator Repair Service, he hopes to walk for the legendary House of Pancakes in the category "Butch Queen in Drags Realness with FACE." |
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Gerald Hannon is an award-winning Toronto journalist. He has written for Toronto Life, This magazine and Chatelaine. |
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Daniel Harris is the author of The Rise and Fall of Gay Culture, cited as a Notable Book of 1997 by the New York Times Book Review. His essays have appeared regularly in Harper's, Salmagundi and The Nation. His next book, Cute, Quaint, Hungry, and Romantic: The Aesthetics of Consumerism, was published in April 2001. |
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Lynn Harris is author of the comic novel Miss Media. She is also co-creator of the award-winning website BreakupGirl.net and the "Dating Dictionary" columnist for Glamour. She writes about gender, culture, and media new and old for Salon, the New York Times, the New York Observer, and many others. When she wrote about bodybuilding for Slate, someone on the message boards called her a "powerlifting cunt." |
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John Haskell is the author of a short-story collection, I Am Not Jackson Pollock(FSG, 2003). His work has appeared in Granta, The Paris Review, Conjunctions, The Believer, and Ploughshares. He is a contributor to the radio show The Next Big Thing. He lives in Brooklyn. |
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A printmaker turned photographer, Naomi Harris was born in Toronto, Canada. Two years ago, she relocated from New York to Miami, where she just received an Agfa grant to photograph the retirees of the Haddon Hall Hotel. Her work has been published in The New York Times Magazine, among others. |
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Jack Harrison is the nom de plume of Hooksexup's very own Jack M. (who needs to get a new professor job and therefore doesn't these articles to come up when he's Googled). He's still the guy who gave you Naughty Bits and zillions of other Hooksexup articles and fiction. Forgive the subterfuge. |
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John Hawkes wrote sixteen books of fiction, including Sweet William, Adventures in the Alaskan Skin Trade, The Blood Oranges (soon to be a motion picture) and, most recently, The Frog. He was T.B. Stowell University Professor Emeritus, Brown University and a member of the American Academy of Arts and Letters. At seventy-two, Hawkes died from a stroke on May 15, 1998. |
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Amari Hayashi was born in Tokyo in 1963. In addition to publishing several books of poetry, among them Mars Angels, The Second-to-Last-Kiss and Short Cut, she has written two books of essays, including The End of the Century Is a Mademoiselle. She also writes criticism about alternative theater and has written a theater guide. |
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Daniel Hayes has published stories in various magazines, including TriQuarterly, Massachusetts Review, Story, Glimmer Train and The Los Angeles Times Magazine. One of his stories was included in Pushcart Prize XV. He now lives in San Francisco, though he prefers Los Angeles, where he used to live. |
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Eloise Klein Healy is the author of four books of poetry, a chapbook, and two audiotape/CD collections. Her most recent book, Artemis In Echo Park, was nominated for the Lambda Book Award. She is the chair of the M.F.A. in Creative Writing Program at Antioch University Los Angeles and Associate Editor/Poetry Editor of The Lesbian Review of Books. |
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Andrew Hearst is a writer and editor who lives in New York. His writing has appeared in The New York Times, Lingua Franca, The Village Voice, Newsday and the London Independent, among other publications. |
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Jamey Hecht is a writer and painter living in Brooklyn. He is the author of Plato's Symposium: Eros and the Human Predicament, and the forthcoming Wordsworth Edition of Sophocles' Three Theban Plays. His fiction and essays have appeared in Sycamore Review, Massachussets Review, American Book Review, 16th Century Journal, English Literary History, Cloverdale Review and other venues. He can be contacted at https://www.geocities.com/gohexametergo/JameyHecht1.html. |
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Jennifer Michael Hecht is a Professor in the History of Science at Nassau Community College. Her poetry appears in Poetry, The Partisan Review, The Gettysburg Review, The Southern Review, Salmagundi and other journals, and has been included in The Best American Poetry 1999. |
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Virginia Heffernan is an editor at Talk magazine and a Ph.D. candidate at Harvard. |
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Scott Heim is the author of the novels Mysterious Skin and In Awe, as well as a book of poems, Saved From Drowning. He served as the London Arts Board's 1998 International Writer-in-Residence, and has taught classes there, in New York and in his native Kansas. Currently he lives in Brooklyn, where he is finishing a third novel, We Disappear. |
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Mark Helfrich began taking photographs as a young boy. He attended the University of Wisconsin, Madison, where he continued to snap photographs and study film. His hobby quickly turned into his passion and led to the publication of his first photographic book, Naked Pictures of My Ex-Girlfriends. |
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Richard Hell got married last year. The photo was taken at his wedding. He's the author of three or four CD's, the most recent being a double disk package of odds and ends from the seventies and early eighties called Time (Matador, 2002), and three or four books, the most recent being Hot and Cold (powerHouse, 2001). He's nearly completed his second novel; his first, Go Now, was published by Scribner in 1996. |
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Vicki Hendricks is the author of Miami Purity, a Florida noir novel she describes as "sex, sex, sex, murder and sex in the dry cleaners," which was originally her thesis for her creative writing Master's. She currently has a short story out entitled "Penile Infraction" in the anthology Dick for a Day and a chapter in the Florida crime collaboration, Naked Came the Manatee. "West End" is forthcoming in the next Otto Penzler mystery collection, Murder for Revenge, and she has just completed Iguana Love, a novel of "obsession, perversion and murder." Hendricks lives in Hollywood, Florida, and teaches at Broward Community College.
Photo Credit © Peggy Levison Nolan |
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Brian Henry grew up in Virginia and has lived in Australia, Massachusetts, and New Hampshire since reaching the legal drinking age. He is the editor of Verse. He has published poetry and criticism in 150 magazines around the world, including the Times Literary Supplement, The Paris Review, The Yale Review, American Poetry Review, New American Writing, The Kenyon Review, Southerly, Threepenny Review and several anthologies. His first book of poetry, Astronaut, was published recently in England and is forthcoming in Slovenia in translation. Astronaut wants to come to the U.S., too. |
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DeWitt Henry was the founding editor of Ploughshares literary magazine. He has co-edited (with James A. McPherson) Fathering Daughters: Reflections by Men, released on Father's Day, 1998. His fiction and essays have appeared in The Pushcart Prize, The Iowa Review, American Voice and The Nebraska Review, among others. He teaches at Emerson College. |
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Mike Heppner's The Egg Code was cited by the Washington Post, the Philadelphia City Paper and Publishers Weekly as among their best books of 2002 . He grew up in Grosse Pointe and Rhode Island, and currently lives in Watertown, MA. Pike's Folly is his second novel. |
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Sarah Hepola is a freelance writer living in New York City. |
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James Herbert is a professor of art at the University of Georgia, Athens. He has been making films for over thirty years and has created twelve music videos for R.E.M. His work is in the permanent collection of the Museum of Modern Art in New York. Stills is a collection of his photographs. |
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Laura Herbert is a freelance writer, photographer, web producer, stunt driver and aspiring mudflap girl. A connoisseur of vintage pin-up art and artifacts, she has appeared in BUST, The New York Observer, Penthouse and other publications. |
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Jason Hernandez-Rosenblatt has written for film, TV and comic books, but he likes interviewing porn starlets the best. |
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Sheila Heti's first book, The Middle Stories, has been translated into German, Spanish, French and Dutch. She lives in Toronto, where she runs the lecture series Trampoline Hall. She is working on a musical with Dan Bejar of the band Destroyer. |
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| Leslie Heywood is a competitive powerlifter, ranked 11th in the bench press nationally in her weight class. She holds an M.F.A. in Poetry from the University of Arizona and a Ph.D. in Critical Theory from the University of California, Irvine. She is an associate professor of English at SUNY-Binghamton, and is the author of Pretty Good for a Girl: An Athlete's Story, Bodymakers: A Cultural Anatomy of Women's Bodybuilding, Dedication to Hunger: The Anorexic Aesthetic in Modern Culture and Third Wave Agenda: Being Feminist, Doing Feminism. Along with Geena Davis, she was recently elected to the position of Trustee at the Women's Sports Foundation. |
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Philip Higgs is a writer living, somewhat uncharacteristically for him, outside of New York. He will one day write a novel, but not anytime soon. |
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Logan Hill is a Contributing Writer and film editor at New York Magazine. He is also the "Required Reading" columnist for the New York Post and has contributed to Wired, The Nation, and The Village Voice. |
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Brenda Hillman is the author of five books of poetry: White Dress, Fortress, Death Tractates, Bright Existence and Loose Sugar. Her work has appeared in numerous periodicals and anthologies. She teaches at Saint Mary's College in Moraga, California. |
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Born in Fukuoka, Japan, in 1960, Noritoshi Hirakawa studied sociology at the University of Tokyo. He has gained international recognition with his exhibitions in Zurich, Frankfurt, Paris, Amsterdam, Tokyo and New York. He lives and works in New York City. |
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Tony Hoagland has published poems widely, including two full length, prize-winning collections, Donkey Gospel (l998) and Sweet Ruin (1992). For a while, Ani Difranco, bless her soul, was reading poems from Donkey Gospel at her concerts. He often writes about gender, and the unspeakable complexity of being a man caught between a paradigm shift and a hard-on. He currently is on a fellowship in Washington, D.C.; in Fall 2001, he starts teaching at the University of Pittsburgh. |
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Mara Hoffman is a fashion designer whose clothing line, Circle, has been featured in Details, Vibe, Black Book and Bikini. |
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A. M. Homes is the author of the short story collections The Safety of Objects, Things You Should Know, and the novels in a Country of Mothers, Jack, The End of Alice and Music for Torching. Her fiction has been translated into eight languages, and she is the recipient of a Guggenheim Fellowship and a National Endowment for the Arts Fellowship. Her nonfiction has appeared in Vanity Fair, The New York Times Magazine, Mirabella and Artforum. |
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Cathy Hong writes for The Village Voice and moonlights as a poet. Her book Translating Mo'um was released last year. |
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Melanie Hope is a poet. She began writing in secret little books that she kept as a child and later pursued it seriously as an undergraduate at Oberlin College. She continued her studies in creative writing on a graduate level at New York University. Her writing has appeared in The Caribbean Writer, Sinister Wisdom, Essence, The Key to Everything, The Arc of Love and Afrekete. She lives in New York City and plans to continue writing for as long as she can. |
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Evans D. Hopkins has written for The New Yorker, The Washington Post and Slate, among other publications. He is currently at work on a prison memoir, as well as other fiction and film projects. |
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Abeer Hoque is the winner of the 2005 Tanenbaum Award for nonfiction and the 2006-7 Fulbright Scholarship. Her stories, poems and photographs have been published in ZYZZYVA, 580 Split, The Pittsburgh Post Gazette, Switchback, Bullfight Review, The Daily Star, Prose Ax, and Drunken Boat. She was born in Nigeria and lives in Barcelona. Her work can be found at www.olivewitch.com. |
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Horst P. Horst, born in Germany in 1906, became one of the world's most influential fashion photographers. Putting his stamp on Vogue in the 1930s and 1940s, he soon became known for his extravagant fashion plates, but also for his still lifes and nudes. Horst died in 1999. |
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Andy Horwitz is a writer and performer living in New York City. His monologues have been called everything from "high-octane, raucous comedy" to "inquisitive and insightful." His writing has appeared in Heeb, The Seattle Stranger and various anthologies. He edits the alternative performance blog Culturebot.org and in 2005 ran for Mayor of New York City, a performance project documented online at andyformayor.org.
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Pam Houston is the author of Cowboys Are My Weakness, Waltzing the Cat and A Little More About Me. She lives at nine thousand feet in the Colorado Rockies near the headwaters of the Rio Grande. Her stories have run in many anthologies, mostly recently in The Best American Short Stories of the Century. She is both pleased and embarrassed that in her first story for Hooksexup, her characters had to get to know each other for four thousand words before they could get into bed.
(Photo by John Gary Brown) |
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Jennifer Howard is finishing a novel, Athena's Tears, and has published short fiction in the Virginia Quarterly Review and the Blue Moon Review. She is a contributing editor at The Washington Post, where she writes a weekly column for Book World, the paper's Sunday book section. |
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Jennifer Howze is a New York-based freelance writer whose work has appeared in Travel and Leisure, The Wall Street Journal Europe, Allure and Self, among other publications. She has not won any writing awards but is looking into the matter. |
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Jessica Hundley is a writer and filmmaker living in Los Angeles. She is also publisher of the zine Mommy and I Are One. |
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David Hunt writes for art/text, Flash Art, Index, Art Byte and other publications. |
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Mara Hvistendahl has been published in the Village Voice, the Philadelphia Independent and the Arizona Republic. She lives in Shanghai. |
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