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Matt Labash is a staff writer at The Weekly Standard. |
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Neil Labute's films include In the Company of Men, Your Friends and Neighbors, Nurse Betty, Possession and The Shape of Things, a film adaptation of his play by the same title. His other plays include The Mercy Seat, The Distance From Here, and bash. LaBute's fiction has also been published in The New York Times Magazine, Harper's Bazaar and Playboy. A collection of his short stories will be published by Grove Atlantic later this year. |
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Nomy Lamm is a fat, freaky, one-legged anarchist dyke who lives in Olympia, Washington. Her writing has been published in Ms., HUES, Seventeen and numerous anthologies including Adios, Barbie: Young Women Write About Body Image and Identity (ed. Ophira Edut) and Restricted Access: Lesbians on Disability (ed. Victoria Brownworth and Susan Raffo). Her post-apocalyptic queer rock opera, The Transfused, was performed in the summer of 2000 at Olympia's historic Capitol. |
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Victoria Lancelotta was born and raised in Baltimore, Maryland. Her work has appeared in the Threepenny Review, Glimmer Train and other magazines, as well as several anthologies. She has been a Fellow at the MacDowell Colony and the recipient of a Henfield Transatlantic Review Award. Her first collection of stories is Here in the World. She lives in Nashville.
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Alexandra Lange is a student of twentieth-century architectural history at New York University's Institute of Fine Arts. She is a regular contributor to New York and Metropolis. |
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Erika Langley received a B.F.A. in Photography from the Rhode Island School of Design in 1989. In 1992 she moved to Seattle and became a stripper in order to do her photo project, The Lusty Lady: Photographs and Texts. She is still a dancer at the Lusty. |
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Dorianne Laux is the author of two collections of poetry, Awake and What We Carry, which was a finalist for the National Book Critics Circle Award. She is also the co-author, with Kim Addonizio, of The Poet's Companion: A Guide to the Pleasure of Writing Poetry. |
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Victor D. LaValle was raised in Flushing and Rosedale, Queens. He has a B.A. from Cornell University and an M.F.A. from Columbia University. He recently published a book of short stories, Slapboxing with Jesus, and is at work on his first novel. |
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Steve Lavender Steve Lavender is a novelist and poet. His work has been published in Pagitica, Anothertorontoquarterly, NFG and Burning Effigy. He lives in Toronto, where he directs a monthly reading series. |
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David Dodd Lee is the author of three books of poems, including Downsides of Fish Culture (1997) and Arrow Pointing South (forthcoming in March, 2002). A fourth manuscript, Air Conditioned Silver, has just been completed and will appear in 2003. |
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David Lehman is a poet, writer, editor and man about town. He is the author of two poetry books, The Daily Mirror (2000), a selection of the poems he has written since embarking on the experiment of writing a poem a day, and its sequel, The Evening Sun (2002). Lehman is the founding editor of The Best American Poetry series and is co-director of the Monday night poetry reading series at the KGB Bar in New York. His most recent nonfiction book is The Last Avant-Garde: The Making of the New York School of Poets. |
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Will Leitch's "Life as a Loser" column runs weekly on TheSimon.com. He has written for Salon, The New York Times on the Web, New York Press, Ironminds, Playboy.com and The Sporting News. |
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J.T. Leroy is the author of Sarah (Bloomsbury), a novel currently being made into a film by director Gus Van Sant. He is also writing a film for HBO, with Diane Keaton producing. LeRoy's new book, The Heart Is Deceitful Above All Things (Bloomsbury) is his second novel. Both his books are International best sellers and have received rave reviews from the New York Times. He contributes a monthly column to Shout magazines. He also writes for other swell magazines and papers as well. His website is https://www.jtleroy.com. |
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Jonathan Lethem is the author of five novels, most recently Motherless Brooklyn. He currently lives in Brooklyn. Click here for more of Lethem on Random House's Bold Type website. |
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Simon LeVay is a neuroscientist-turned-science writer. As a scientist he is best known for his 1991 report on differences in brain structure between gay and straight men. He has written or co-authored six books: The Sexual Brain, City of Friends, Queer Science, Albrick's Gold, The Earth in Turmoil and Here Be Dragons. He lives in West Hollywood, California and is reachable via his website at https://members.aol.com/slevay. |
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Judith Levine is the author of the forthcoming Not Harmful to Minors: How We Hurt Our Children by Protecting Them from Sex and My Enemy, My Love: Women, Men, and the Dilemmas of Gender. She has written about sex, gender, culture and politics for many national publications and is a founder of the National Writers Union and the pro-sex feminist agitprop troupe, No More Nice Girls. She lives in Brooklyn, New York, and Hardwick, Vermont. |
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David Levinthal received his M.F.A. in Photography from Yale University. He is the recipient of fellowships from the Guggenheim Foundation and the NEA. His book, Mein Kampf, received France's Prix du Livres de Photographies. He has published twelve books and catalogs; his latest is Barbie Millicent Roberts (An Original), published in the fall of 1998. Read more about him in Forbes. |
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Heather Lewis is the author of two other novels, House Rules and Second Suspect. In 2002, she took her own life at the age of forty. |
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Marc Levy served with the First Cavalry Division in Vietnam and Cambodia in 1970 and has traveled extensively in Central America, Southeast Asia and Indonesia. His work has appeared in various publications including: Slant, Peregrine, Masquerade Books, Vagabond Monthly, PoetryCentral.com, Cleansheets, Rattapallax, Medicinal Purposes and the anthologies Stories From the Infirmary, Will Work for Peace and The Best American Erotica 2000. A video of his war-related prose and photographs, The Real Deal, is being submitted to various film festivals. |
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Jardine Libaire lives in Brooklyn, NY. Her first novel, Here Kitty Kitty, will be published by Little Brown in May 2004. |
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Mark Lindquist was born and raised in Seattle. His first novel, Sad Movies, published in 1987, was a bestseller and published in six languages. He has also written screenplays for several studios, including Paramount, 20th Century Fox, Warner Brothers and MGM; book reviews for The Los Angeles Times Book Review, The New York Times Book Review and the Seattle Times; and articles for Details, The New York Times Magazine and other publications. His second novel, Carnival Desires, was published in 1990 and his third novel, Never Mind Nirvana, was published in May 2000. |
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Sharon Lintz is a writer living in Brooklyn. She has written for the New York Post and comedycentral.com and has produced work for public radio, most recently a humor piece about vaginal cosmetic surgery for WBAI's now-defunct sex show eradio.
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Sam Lipsyte is Senior Editor at FEED. His fiction has been published in The Quarterly and Open City. |
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Max Ludington's fiction has appeared in Tin House and Meridian. He received his MFA from Columbia University and now lives in New York. Tiger in a Trance is his first novel.
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Juliana Luecking makes CDs you can get from Kill Rock Stars. DreamCumGoDown is a collection of interviews with women about sex, and Big Broad is a bunch of intimate stories. Her latest video short Some People I Know: Truth is on Kill Rock Stars Video Fanzine #3. She lives and bikes in Brooklyn. |
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William Outcault and Lilla LoCurto both received their M.F.A.'s in Sculpture; their work together has been exhibited at the TZ'Art in New York City, the Newlyn Art Gallery in the UK and the MIT List Visual Arts Center in Cambridge, among other places. Their pieces have been reviewed in Artforum, The Village Voice and The Boston Globe. |
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Canadian-born photographer Richard Lohr spent most of his adult life in London working primarily in fashion. Since an enlightening filmmaking expedition to Tibet (which put the fashion world into a new perspective for him), he has been able to take on more commissions in the field he calls "real photography." Lohr now lives in New York City. |
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Tom Lombardi's fiction is forthcoming in McSweeney's Quarterly, and has appeared in Fence, McSweeneys.net, and Opium. His website is www.tomlombardi.org. |
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Nola Lopez photographs the "Objectified" column for the Hooksexup print magazine, and has also contributed to Time, W and New York magazines, among others. |
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Canadian-born photographer Jack Louth is a self-taught photographer who moved to New York City in the fall of 1994 to assist and learn. Some of his editorial work can be viewed at Fashionbook.com. |
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Michael Lowenthal is the author of the novels Avoidance and The Same Embrace, as well as short stories that have been widely anthologized, most recently in Lost Tribe: Jewish Fiction from the Edge and Bestial Noise: The Tin House Fiction Reader. He lives in Boston, where he teaches writing at Boston College and Lesley University, and he can be reached via his Web site, www.MichaelLowenthal.com. |
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Edward Lucie-Smith is an art critic who specializes in sexuality in art. His books include Sexuality in Western Art, Ars Erotica, Adam, Art Today, Movements in Art since 1945 and Flesh & Stone, which is his first book of photography. |
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Ray Loriga, born in 1967 in Madrid, writes novels and scripts. His published works include Lo peor de todo, Héroes, Días extraños and Caídos del cielo. Loriga directed La pistola de mi hermano, which screened at the the Berlin Film Festival. His work has been translated in the U.S., England, France, Germany, Holland, Greece, Denmark, Finland and Portugal. |
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Max Ludington recently completed his M.F.A. in Writing at Columbia University. He's been published in Tin House and has been nominated for a Pushcart Prize. Max is at work on a story collection and his first novel. |
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Roddy Lumsden was born in Scotland in 1966 and now works as a freelance writer and puzzle compiler in London. His collections from Bloodaxe, Yeah Yeah Yeah and The Book of Love (a Poetry Book Society Choice), were short-listed for several awards including the Forward and T.S. Eliot Prizes. He co-wrote The Message, a book about poetry and pop music. His third collection Roddy Lumsden is Dead appears in Autumn 2001, when he will also commence an Arts Council of England international fellowship in Canada. |
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Leslie Lyons' photography has appeared in Vibe, Time Out New York, Wavelength and various group shows. |
