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Danielle Pafunda lives in Brooklyn. She is completing her MFA at New School University and is an associate editor at Crowd magazine. She assists with the KGB Bar Poetry Reading Series in New York City. Her new work will appear at La Petite Zine and in Pleiades. |
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Elaine Pagels is the Harrington Speare Paine Professor of Religion at Princeton University, and the author of Adam, Eve and the Serpent, The Gnostic Gospels and The Origin of Satan. |
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Camille Paglia is Professor of Humanities at the University of the Arts in Philadelphia, a weekly columnist for Salon, and the author of Sexual Personae: Art and Decadence from Nefertiti to Emily Dickinson; Sex, Art and American Culture; Vamps and Tramps; and her latest, The Birds, a study of Alfred Hitchcock's film for the British Film Institute's Film Classics Series. |
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Chuck Palahniuk's novels are the bestselling Lullaby and Fight Club, which was made into a film by director David Fincher, Survivor, Invisible Monsters, and Choke. His most recent and bestselling novel is the acclaimed Diary. He lives in Portland, Oregon. |
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Born in Catania, Sicily, Melissa Panarello. is now eighteen years old and living in Rome. 100 Strokes of the Brush Before Bed is her first book and will soon be published in twenty-four countries. |
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Natasha Papadopoulou was born in Thessaloniki, Greece, in 1975. She moved to London to study photography after high school, but London's weather forced a move to NYC, where she graduated from the School of Visual Arts in 2001. She has worked for the French magazine Perso and Greek Playboy. She'd like everyone to be as comfortable with their sexuality as the subjects of her photographs. |
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Jon Papernick is the author of the short story collection The Ascent of Eli Israel (Arcade, 2002), and has recently completed a novel entitled Who by Fire, Who by Blood. He lives outside Boston with his wife and is at work on second story collection. His website is www.jonpapernick.com. |
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Charles Pappas has covered the men's magazine industry for Advertising Age and Green magazine. He writes the newsletter Finkydoodle. |
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Suzi Parker is a journalist based in Little Rock, Arkansas. Her work has appeared in numerous national magazines and newspapers. |
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Molly Peacock is one of the originators of Poetry In Motion on the nation's subways and buses. Her most recent book is How To Read A Poem & Start A Poetry Circle. She is the author of four books of poems, including Raw Heaven, Take Heart and Original Love, as well as a memoir, Paradise Piece By Piece. A Danforth, Ingram Merrill, and Woodrow Wilson Foundation Fellow, her poems have appeared in The New Yorker, The Nation, The New Republic, The Paris Review and other leading literary journals. She currently serves as co-president of the Poetry Society of America and Poet-in-Residence at the Cathedral of St. John the Divine. |
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Gerry Gomez Pearlberg's poetry books include Marianne Faithfull's Cigarette (1998 Lambda Literary Award) and Queer Dog: Homo/Pup/Poetry (1999 Firecracker Alternative Book Award). Her new collection of poems, Mr. Bluebird, was released in Spring 2001. Big Fat Press (Brooklyn, NY) has published two of her collections: The Fetish Papers and Anal Haiku/Rodenticide. Gerry conducts a poetry interview series for the literary tri-quarterly frigatezine.com, and serves as Poetry Editor at The Bark. |
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Patricia Pearson is the author of When She Was Bad: How and Why Women Get Away With Murder. She currently resides in Toronto with her husband and child. |
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Dale Peck is the author of the novels Martin and John, The Law of Enclosures and Now It's Time to Say Goodbye. His work has appeared in Out, QW, The Nation, The Village Voice and Men on Men 4: Best New Gay Fiction. Raised in Kansas and educated at Drew University, he now lives in New York City. |
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Brian Pera is the author of Troublemaker, his first novel. He lives in Memphis, where, when he damn well feels like it, he publishes the paper Ultraviolet. He's currently working on a second novel and reflecting on all the wonderfully kind, generous, unthreatened, unconventional and inspiring people in the literary world he's met so far, which is to say Dennis Cooper. |
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Pia Pera has a Ph.D. in Russian literature and has translated a number of Russian classics. She has also written for a variety of newspapers, periodicals and literary magazines (The Times Literary Supplement, Drama, La Republica, L'Unita, L'Espresso, Panorama, Linea d'Ombra, L'Indice, Leggere, Marie Claire and others), broadcasted for both the BBC and the RAI and published a collection of short stories, La bellezza dell'asino. She lives in Milan where she works as a writer and translator. |
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Michael Perkins is a novelist, critic and editor. He is the author of the novels Dark Games, Ceremonies of the Flesh and Evil Companions. |
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Jayne Anne Phillips is the author of two widely anthologized collections of stories, Fast Lanes and Black Tickets, and three novels, Motherkind, Shelter and Machine Dreams. Her works have been published in nine languages. She is the recipient of a Guggenheim Fellowship, two National Endowment for the Arts Fellowships and a National Book Critics Circle Award nomination. Her work has appeared most recently in HarperÍs, Granta, Doubletake, and the Norton Anthology of Contemporary Fiction. She is currently Writer In Residence at Brandeis University.
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Valerie Phillips lives between North London and Murray Hill, New York, has most recently shot for Sleaze Nation, Details, Esquire and Nylon, and is currently midway through an acclaimed and contentious two-year faux documentary ad campaign for the Liverpool nightclub Cream. She is also working on a book about Brooklyn teenagers and had a show of personal work open in London during April 2000. |
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Marge Piercy has published fourteen novels and fifteen collections of poetry. Her most recent novel is Three Women. Her early, out-of-print and selected unpublished poetry was published under the title Early Grrrl, and her Jewish-themed poems are being collected as The Art of Blessing the Day. |
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Photographer, painter and writer George Pitts is the Chair of Photography at Parsons The New School For Design. His award-winning work has appeared in publications such as The New York Times Magazine, New York Magazine, Complex, Esquire, The Washington Post, The Paris Review, Hooksexup and many more books and exhibitions. (Bio photo: Clayton Cubitt) |
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Sylvia Plachy is staff photographer for The Village Voice. Her first book, Unguided Tour, won the International Center of Photography Infinity Award for Best Publication of 1990. Her photographs have appeared in Newsweek, Artforum, The New York Times Magazine, Grand Street, Wired, Doubletake and Tatler, among others. Her work is in the collections of The Museum of Modern Art and The Metropolitan Museum of Art in New York, the San Francisco Museum of Modern Art and the Bibliothèque Nationale in Paris. She has had solo exhibitions at the Whitney Museum of American Art and other venues. In 1996, Plachy and writer James Ridgeway came out with the book, Red Light: Inside the Sex Industry, excerpted here in Hooksexup. Her third book, Signs and Relics, was published in February 2000. |
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Mark Jude Poirier is a graduate of Georgetown, Stanford, the Writing Seminar at Johns Hopkins, and the Iowa Writers' Workshop. The author of Naked Pueblo and Goats, he recently was awarded a Chesterfield screenwriting fellowship with Paramount Pictures. He lives in Los Angeles, California, and Archer City, Texas. |
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Khary Polk writes fiction and cultural criticism in NYU's American Studies Program. He loves to see black boys finish books.
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Neal Pollack is the author of The Neal Pollack Anthology Of American Literature and Beneath The Axis Of Evil. His first novel, a history of rock 'n' roll titled Never Mind the Pollacks, will be published this fall. For a daily dose of his satirical brilliance, visit his website, www.nealpollack.com. He lives in Austin, Texas. |
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Nani Power is the author of Crawling at Night (Grove/Atlantic Monthly),a New York Times Notable Book of The Year and a finalist for The Los Angeles Times Book Award as well as the British Orange Award. It has been translated into seven languages. Her second novel, The Good Remains (Grove/Atlantic Monthly), was also a New York Times Notable Book of The Year, and a finalist for The Virginia Library Award. The Sea of Tears, her third novel, will be published by Counterpoint Press. |
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Brenda Prager graduated with an MFA from the San Francisco Art Institute. She has exhibited her photographs of the disabled at the Blue Sky gallery in Portland, Oregon, the Women's Building in San Francisco, and many other forums. She lives in Berkeley, California. |
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Denver Preiss writes books, remains loyal to his girlfriend, and tries not to kill himself in Brooklyn, NY. He can be reached at . |
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Gregory Prescott is a photographer residing in Los Angeles, California. He's largely self-taught and has spent the majority of his life in Houston, Texas. His work consists of an array of portraits and nudes. Check out more of his work at https://www.gregoryprescott.com. |
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Viva Sarah Press is a journalist, traveler and recreational photographer. Raised in Toronto and now a resident of Tel Aviv, she is an editor at the Israel Broadcasting Authority and a regular contributor to The Jerusalem Post. Her work has been published by The Baltimore Sun, Montreal Gazette, Israel21c.org, Hackwriters, and Reuters News Agency. Email her at [email protected]. |
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Ray Pride is longtime film critic of Chicago's Newcity. He is a contributing editor at Filmmaker magazine, and writes about movies and the business for many publications, including indieWIRE. He is completing a book of interviews with the director Atom Egoyan. |
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Ken Probst began his career in New York City as a fashion photographer specializing in behind-the-scenes work at shows in New York, Milan and Paris from 1978 to 1983. Since then, his work has appeared in The New York Times Magazine, Allure, Art News, Elle DŽcor, Entertainment Weekly, George, GQ, Glamour, House & Garden, Met Home, Money, New York, Out, Self, Town & Country and Vanity Fair. Probst moved to San Francisco in 1989, where he continues to shoot magazine and advertising assignments. His book, (por'ne-graf'ik), featured here, is available from Twin Palms Publishers. He is represented by the in New York. Email him at . |
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Minna Proctor is a writer and translator who lives in New York. She has written for Bomb, The Nation and The New York Observer. |
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Kevin Prufer's first book, Strange Wood, won the 1997 Winthrop Poetry Series. He is the editor of The New Young American Poets and Pleiades: A Journal of New Writing. His work also appears in TriQuarterly, The Southern Review, Boulevard, The Antioch Review, The Southwest Review, Chelsea and American Poetry: The Next Generation. |
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