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Holger Maass worked as a self-taught photographer while attending college for electrical engineering in Germany. Since then, he's shot several major German magazine features as well as ad campaigns for various agencies and companies. He won the silver "Deutscher Direktmarketing Preis" in 1996, and the "Deusch-Französischen Gesellschaft" award in 1997. Maass runs his own studio in Munich. |
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Fiona Maazel is a writer living in New York. |
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Wendy MacLeod is the author of The House of Yes (now a Miramax film starring Parker Posey), which has been performed in New York, Chicago, San Francisco, Los Angeles, London, Paris and Berlin. Her play The Water Children opened off-Broadway at Playwrights Horizons and was done in L.A. at The Matrix Theater where it received six Los Angeles Drama Critics Circle nominations. She is currently writing a screenplay for Geena Davis and is the Playwright-in-Residence at Kenyon College. |
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Vijai Maheshwari is a freelance journalist, novelist, DJ, artist (www.cosmotrash.com) and aspiring party promoter based in Tallinn, Estonia. A former physicist and editor-in-chief of Russian Playboy, he hopes to live in India again. Once he's married, that is. |
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Tony Mancus is a recent graduate of the University of Pittsburgh. He has had work published in Three Rivers Review, Electric Mayhem's Magazino and most recently a chapbook entitled Living Backwards. He is a very tired character with little motivation. |
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Elizabeth Manus is a writer who grew up in Manhattan, where she currently lives and works on a play. She is always on the lookout for strong characters. She can be reached at . |
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Deb Margolin is a playwright, performance artist, writer and a founding member of the Split Britches Theater Company. She has six full-length solo pieces in repertory and, in addition to touring, is a frequent guest lecturer at universities throughout the country. A workshop production of her new play, Whispering "Sex," premiered in New York City in the fall of 1998, and she recently published a collection of her plays and performance pieces, entitled Of All The Hooksexup: Deb Margolin Solo, edited and with commentaries by Lynda Hart. Ms. Margolin is currently on the faculty at Yale University. |
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Vivienne Maricevic has worked as a picture researcher for True magazine, an exhibits editor for Camera Arts magazine and as the photo editor for Crescent Publishing Group. Her work has been exhibited at The International Center of Photography, The Houston Center for Photography and Nikon House, New York. She is the recipient of a New York Foundation for the Arts Fellowship. Her recent book of photographs of transvestites and male-to-female transsexuals is entitled Male to Female: La Cage aux Folles. Visit her at www.sheshootsmen.com. |
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Douglas A. Martin is the author of the novel Outline of My Lover, which was nominated for the American Library Association's GLBT Book Award and was named an international book of the year by the Times Literary Supplement. He's the author of two previous collections of poetry, and his work has appeared in New Writing 11, Best Gay Erotica 2002, The Haiku Year, Latin Lovers, and on lowblueflame.com. |
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Philip Martin is a newspaper columnist and essayist who lives in Little Rock. His latest book of essays, The Shortstop's Son, has just been published by the University of Arkansas Press. "The Eavesdropper" is an excerpt from his novel-in-progress of the same name. |
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Ross Martin's recent work appears in magazines such as Agni, Bomb, Boulevard, Denver Quarterly, Fence, Kenyon Review, Poetry Daily, Prairie Schooner, Verse, Witness and others. He has taught at Rhode Island School of Design, The New School University and Washington University in St. Louis, where he received his MFA. His first book, 'The Cop Who Rides Alone,' is published by Zoo Press (www.zoopress.org). |
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Michael Martone's new book, The Blue Guide to Indiana, will be published this August. He lives in Tuscaloosa, Alabama. |
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Carole Maso is the author of Ghost Dance, The Art Lover, Ava and The American Woman in the Chinese Hat. Her latest novel, Defiance, was published in May of 1998. She teaches at Brown University. |
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Michaelangelo Matos writes about music and culture for Spin, Village Voice, Time Out New York, Chicago Reader, City Pages and many other publications. He lives in New York City and maintains two weblogs: You Can't Wear Nail Polish to a Surgery and The Mix Project. And yes, that really is his name. |
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Rachel Mattson is a writer, editor, and U.S. History graduate student. Her work has been published by The Village Voice, Sojourner, The New York Blade News, Poetry Motel and Historychannel.com. Mattson has worked as an adult educator, a welfare advocate, a seller of sex toys and a photographer of chocolates. She lacks, among other things, the ability to digest milk. |
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Daniel Maurer is a writer and book editor in New York City. After swinging in Argentina he attended an exorcism in Chile. That story and others are at https://www.danielmaurer.net. |
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Joe Maynard was a shy dullard in a humble Brooklyn garret, until he discovered pornography. When he started publishing Pink Pages (his blotchy little zine he scotch-tapes together), he found himself being sucked into a vortex of obscene animal lust. Thank God! |
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Stephen McBride is a self-taught photographer who originally went to F.I.T. for interior design. He's been shooting professionally for about two and a half years and is currently working on a book with a "voyeuristic theme." He also shoots for The Source, Vibe and Rolling Stone, among others, and has photographed a number of album covers. |
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Shara McCallum was born in Jamaica to an Afro-Jamaican father and Venezuelan mother. She emigrated to the U.S. at the age of nine and completed an M.F.A. from The University of Maryland and a Ph.D. from Binghamton University. Her first book of poetry, The Water Between Us, won the 1998 Agnes Lynch Starrett Prize. Winner of an Academy of American Poets Prize and three-time nominee of the Pushcart Prize, her work appears in a number of journals and in the anthologies American Poetry: The Next Generation, Beyond the Frontier: African American Poetry for the 21st Century and The Bread Loaf Anthology of New American Poets. She lives in Tennessee and is on the faculty of the M.F.A. program at The University of Memphis. |
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Jeffrey McDaniel is the author of Alibi School and The Forgiveness Parade. His poems have appeared in numerous literary magazines and anthologies, including Ploughshares, Best American Poetry 1994, American Poetry: The Next Generation, New (American) Poetry, New Younger American Poets and on NPR's Talk of the Nation. He's performed his work at over fifty cities in North America and Europe at venues such as The Globe in Prague, the Nuyorican Poets Cafe, Shakespeare and Co. in Paris, the Taos Poetry Circus, the National Poetry Slam, Bumbershoot, the Edmonton Poets Stroll, the South by Southwest Music Festival, Lollapalooza and numerous universities. |
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Sean McDevitt has been featured in solo exhibitions at the Dru Arstark gallery in New York, 7 Stages in Atlanta and the Lamar Dodd School of Art at the University of Georgia. He has also participated in numerous group exhibitions, including shows held at White Columns, Jim Kempner Fine Art and the Loyola Gallery downtown in New Orleans, to name a few. McDevitt currently lives and works in New York City. |
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Ian McFarlane's photographs have appeared in the Photo Review, The Georgia Review and B&W. He has been the still photographer on several music videos, most notably for R.E.M. and the Dave Matthews Band. He currently resides in Athens, Georgia and is the custom printer to Michael Stipe of R.E.M. |
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Jay McInerney is the author of the novels Bright Lights, Big City, Ransom, Story of my Life and The Last of the Savages, as well as the novellaModel Behavior. His journalism has appeared in The New Yorker, Vanity Fair and Esquire, among many other places. |
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Tara McKelvey is a senior editor at The American Prospect. |
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Lucy McKenzie is an artist who lives in Glasgow. |
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Jan McLaughlin is a filmmaker, poet and novelist who studied film at New York University. Her work has been published extensively, from USA Today to Stained Sheets. She is co-editor/publisher of Upstart Press. Her current project, "The World's Longest Open Love Letter," commenced on Valentine's Day 2000 and continued until February 14, 2001. She lives in Brooklyn, New York. |
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Martha McPhee is the author of Bright Angel Time and teaches creative writing at Columbia University. She has been published in The New York Times Magazine, The New Yorker and Vogue, among other magazines, and is currently working on her second novel. |
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Emily Mead is a freelance writer and scavenger. She lives in Brooklyn. |
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Neal Medlyn is a performer in New York City who sings songs, runs amok, and occasionally jumps off of things in his very own entertainment programs. He was Mr. Lower East Side in 2004 and is sometimes referred to as the Paris Hilton of Performance Art. His website is www.nealmedlyn.com |
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Micheal Medved is the host of a nationally syndicated radio talk show and former chief film critic for The New York Post. He served for twelve years as co-host of the PBS weekly movie review show, "Sneak Preview." He is the author of eight non-fiction books, including his latest, Saving Childhood: Protecting Our Children from the National Assault on Innocence, which he co-authored with his wife, Dr. Diane Medved. |
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Daniel Mendelsohn's articles and reviews have appeared in numerous publications, including The New York Times Book Review, The New Yorker, George, Lingua Franca and The New York Observer. A lecturer in classics at Princeton, he is the author of The Elusive Embrace: Desire and the Riddle of Identity. |
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To create the "just girls" feel of her photographs of Mia Tyler, Natacha Merritt barred anyone from the set who wouldn't go drink-for-drink with her. The result was "almost like a bedroom porn-amateur vibe," a comfort level which brought out the best in the photographer. Merritt used a digital camera for the shoot, as she did in her book Digital Diaries. When she isn't running her own website, digitalgirly.com, she is working on her next book for Taschen. |
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Sharon Mesmer's first fiction collection, The Empty Quarter, was published in 2000, and follows the 1998 publication of her first book of poems, Half Angel, Half Lunch. Her work has appeared in such publications as New American Writing, Lingo, The World and Poets & Writers. She teaches literature and writing at The New School in Manhattan and is the English-language editor of American Book Jam, a Japanese literary magazine. |
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Daphne Merkin's reviews, essays, fiction and journalism have appeared in The New York Times Book Review, The New Republic, The New Leader, Commentary, Premiere, American Film, Film Comment, The New York Times and other publications. In the early fall of 1998, she joined The New Yorker as a film critic and staff writer. Her books include the 1986 novel, Enchantment, which won the Edward Lewis Wallant Award, and her recently published collection of personal essays, Dreaming of Hitler: Passions and Provocations (1997). She lives in Manhattan with her young daughter and is at work on a novel called The Discovery of Sex. |
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Elise Miller hosts and curates East Side Oral (the reading series your mother warned you about) at The Living Room in New York City. She's currently at work on Celebrified, a chick-lit novel set at an elite private school in Brooklyn Heights. Essays from her memoir, Cock-Crazy! have appeared on bkyn.com, smallspiralnotebook.com and massconfusion.com. Her work has also been published in The Sun Magazine. |
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Ellen Miller is the author of the novel Like Being Killed. She has an M.F.A. from New York University and was the recipient of a residency at the MacDowell Colony. She lives in New York City. |
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Reverend Jen Miller, Patron Saint of the Uncool, hosts the long-running New York City open mike "Reverend Jen's Anti-Slam." She is also the author of Reverend Jen's Really Cool Neighborhoo, a Lower East Side travel guide "for the poor, deviant and bored." Visit her website at www.revjen.com. |
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Marshall Miller co-founded the Alternatives to Marriage Project and is the co-author of Unmarried to Each Other: The Essential Guide to Living Together as an Unmarried Couple!. |
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Tim Miller is an internationally acclaimed solo performer and the author of
the books Shirts & Skin, and Body Blows. He can be reached at his website
https://hometown.aol.com/millertale/timmiller.html |
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Jonathan Mitchell has been photographing the nude for more than twenty years. Inspired by the fact that there are so many women willing to pose nude, he shoots women he meets on the street, through ads and model websites, and by word of mouth. He lives and works in New York City. His website is www.jonathanmitchellphotography.com. |
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Karen Moline is the author of the novels Belladonna (Warner) and Lunch (Avon), a film critic for BBC World Service Radio, a former interviewer for "The Big Breakfast" on Channel 4 in the U.K. and a freelance entertainment journalist who has written for dozens of magazines and newspapers in the U.S., U.K. and Australia. |
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Ken Mondschein is a Ph.D candidate at Fordham University and the author of A History of Single Life. |
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Joseph Monninger is the author of eight novels and numerous stories and articles. He lives and teaches in New Hampshire. He has just released his first memoir, entitled Home Waters, about fishing with his dog Nellie. |
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Mayra Montero was born in Havana in 1952 and currently lives in Puerto Rico. She has published five novels, a collection of stories and a book of essays in Spanish. Her novels, In the Palm of Darkness and The Messenger, are available in English. The Last Night I Spent With You will be followed by The Red of Your Shadow in 2001, all translated by Edith Grossman. |
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Marie-Claire Montanari came to New York from her hometown of Paris at age 26 to work at the United Nations. She began studying photography seriously five years later, taking photography workshops with Harold Feinstein and Lisette Model, master printing with George Tice and lighting with Philippe Halsman. Since then her work has been exhibited around the world, featured in magazines such as Vogue, Collectors Photography, American Photographer and Advertising Age, and is included in the permanent collection of the Bibliotheque Nationale de Paris. Montanari began doing nude portraits of women on a commission basis in 1985. |
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Rick Moody is most recently the author of The Diviners. His other books include The Ice Storm, Purple America, Demonology and The Black Veil.
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Lisa Moore's fiction has been published widely in literary magazines and anthologies. She has published two collections of short stories, Degrees of Nakedness and Open. She lives in St. John's, Newfoundland.
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Michael Moore is a web developer in Portland, Maine. "To Have and Have Not" is his first piece for Hooksexup. Or any other publication. |
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Thomas Moore is a writer and lecturer and lives in New England with his wife and two children. He was a monk in a Catholic religious order for twelve years and has degrees in theology, musicology and philosophy. A former professor of religion and psychology, he is the author of Care of the Soul, Soul Mates, The Re-Enchantment of Everyday Life, Meditations and The Soul of Sex. |
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Shonquis Moreno is a New York City-based writer who has contributed to Time Out, Blue and Black Book magazines. |
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Shonquis Moreno is a New York City-based writer who has contributed to Time Out, Blue and Black Book magazines. |
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Jack Morin, Ph.D. practices sex therapy and psychotherapy in San Francisco. He is the author of Anal Pleasure and Health and also The Erotic Mind, a radical and paradoxical psychology of sexual desire and arousal. |
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Mark Morford is a columnist for sfgate.com, the website for the San Francisco Chronicle. He is also a yoga teacher and fiction writer and an outstanding parallel parker and fervent wine devotee and former LA rock-god wannabe and paradoxical contrarian and tattooed love-monkey and ardent dog lover and sincere Astroglide advocate. Contact him at . |
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Mark Morrisroe (1959 - 1989) lived an all-too-short but very full life. A member of the so-called Boston School, he was a photographer, filmmaker and the editor of the punk fanzine Dirt. His photography was recently featured in The Whitney Museum of American Art's retrospective, "The American Century," and is exhibited at the Pat Hearn Gallery in New York. |
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Patti Munter lives in New York City and is currently working on her first novel. Her short fiction can be found in Pearl and in Acorn. Her story, "Pre-Dawn Massacre," won the 1998 Short Story Contest, and she was a semi-finalist for the 1997 and 1998 Heekin Fellowships for Short Fiction. |
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David Mura is a poet, creative nonfiction writer, critic, playwright and performance artist. His memoir, Turning Japanese: Memoirs of a Sansei, was a New York Times Notable Book in 1991. His second memoir, Where the Body Meets Memory: An Odyssey of Race, Sexuality and Identity, was published in 1996. His most recent book of poetry, The Colors of Desire, won the Carl Sandburg Literary Award. |
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has a B.A. in Philosophy and Semiotics and a Ph.D. in Medieval Literature. His stories appeared in the Best American Erotica editions of 1999 and 2000 and "Rooster" was chosen for 2001. His weekly column for Hooksexup, Jack's Naughty Bits, was collected and released as a book in Summer 2001. He used to be the editor-in-chief of Hooksexup before retiring to write full time and take seriously the quest for love. |
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George Murray's fiction and poetry appear in many magazines, including Alphabet City, Descant, The Iowa Review, The Mid-American Review, The Ontario Review, Pequod and slope. His latest book of poems is The Cottage Builder's Letter (McClelland and Stewart, 2001). From Toronto, Canada, he now lives in New York City. |
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Eileen Myles' novel, Cool for You, was published in November 2000. Her previous titles include School of Fish (1997) and Not Me (1991). From 1984-1986, she was Artistic Director of St. Mark's Poetry Project. In 1992, she conducted a female write-in campaign for President. She is a frequent contributor to The Village Voice, The Nation, BookForum, Nest, Out and The Stranger.
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