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  Atsuko Sakaki is an Associate Professor of Japanese Literature in the Department of East Asian Languages and Civilizations at Harvard University.
 
Matthew Salacuse and Micael Schmelling spent a year documenting the strip-club subculture of the Bronx.
 
  Nancy Jo Sales is a contributing editor at New York magazine. She has sworn off men and is trying to get pregnant . . . which is difficult.
 
Native New Yorker Vanessa Contessa Salle was raised in Greenwich Village surrounded by all sorts of artists and freaks. Daughter of a photographer, she never dreamed that she would follow in her mother's footsteps. While at college in California she came up with the idea of creating her very own deck of playing cards. So she picked up the camera that she inherited from her mother and is still using it six years later to share her vision of strong, sexy, real women with the world.
 
Kevin Sampsell is the author of Beautiful Blemish and the editor of The Insomniac Reader. He lives in Portland, Oregon.
 
Chuck Samuels' photography is collected in the Canadian Museum of Contemporary Photography and La Maison European de La Photographie in Paris. He has been exhibited in galleries throughout Canada, the U.S. and Europe.
 
David Samuels is a contributing editor at Harper's and a frequent contributor to The New Yorker.
 
Lauren Sanders is the author of a novel, Kamikaze Lust, which was published in May 2000. Her fiction has been included in the Best Lesbian Erotica series and in On Our Backs magazine, and her nonfiction has appeared in publications including Time Out New York, The American Book Review and Poets & Writers. She is also co-editor of the anthology Too Darn Hot: Writing About Sex Since Kinsey.
 
Sean San Jose is a native of San Francisco. He conceived the theatre project "Pieces of the Quilt", a collection of new, short plays confronting the AIDS epidemic. Started as an homage to his parents, who died of AIDS, the collection involves over twenty-five writers, including Edward Albee, Lanford Wilson, David Henry Hwang, Tony Kushner and Migdalia Cruz. He is a co-founder of the theatre company Campo Santo, which produced the world premiere of I Feel Love and works by Denis Johnson, Naomi Iizuka, Philip Kan Gotanda and Dave Eggers. www.theintersection.org, [email protected].
 
Kelefa Sanneh is the deputy editor of Transition, a journal of black culture worldwide.
 
Crispin Sartwell lives on an emu farm in Pennsylvania. He's an associate professor of Humanities at Penn State Harrisburg. His books are The Art of Living: Aesthetics of the Ordinary in World Spiritual Traditions, Obscenity, Anarchy, Reality and Act Like You Know: African-American Autobiography and White Identity.
 
Elissa Schappell writes the "Hot Type" column for Vanity Fair and is a founding editor of the new literary journal Tin House. She has been a senior editor at The Paris Review. Her fiction and nonfiction have appeared in Allure, Bomb, Details, The Paris Review, Vanity Fair, Vogue, Witness and other magazines, newspapers and anthologies. She is the author of Use Me, a collection of short stories.
 
Stephen Schiff was a finalist for the 1983 Pulitzer Prize in Distinguished Criticism, critic-at-large at Vanity Fair from 1983 to 1992, and the film critic of National Public Radio's "Fresh Air" for nine years until 1996. Since 1992, he has been a staff writer at The New Yorker. His first screenplay was a 1997 adaptation of the Nabokov novel, Lolita. Schiff's latest films include True Crime, directed by and starring Clint Eastwood, and The Deep End of the Ocean, starring Michelle Pfeiffer.
 
Shoshanna Scholar is a Canadian writer, art consultant and lexicographer working in Los Angeles. Her other writings include plays, short stories, interviews and political pieces about queer issues in the areas of sex and health.
 
Ingrid Schorr is a regular contributor to Hermenaut, the Jamaica Plain-based journal of philosophy and pop culture, and has written for many lesser- and better-known publications.
 
Heidi Jon Schmidt is the author of The Bride of Catastrophe, Darling? , and The Rose Thieves. She lives in Provincetown, MA.
 
Andi Schreiber is a photo editor who garnered an award from the National Press Photographers Association for her photo reportage of women boxers.
 
Charlie Schreiner received a Master of Fine Arts Degree from the Rhode Island School of Design and lives and works along the shores of Lake Michigan. His daguerreotypes have been exhibited at the George Eastman House in Rochester, NY, Ohio State University, the Oakland Museum, the North Light Gallery, A Photographers Place, The Atlanta History Center, The Henry Ford Museum, and the Nelson-Atkins Museum of Art, among others. On-line exhibits include www.pixiport.com, www.daguerre.org. Also, he manages www.newdags.com, "The portal to the world of daguerreotypes--the people who make them and how it is done." His personal website is www.charlieschreiner.com.
 
With performances from London to Berlin, New York to Rome, Dahlia Schweitzer is an artist, performer, and personality constantly serving up what's now, what's new, what's next in the worlds of music, editorial, photography, and nightlife. Since 1996, her photographs have been exhibited in Connecticut, New York City, London and Berlin -- in solo and group shows, and her current exhibition, ?Lovergirl,? at Berlin?s White Trash, has been extended indefinitely. Her website is www.dahliaschweitzer.com.
 
Deb Schwartz, former senior editor at Out, is a writer in New York. Her writing has been published in Spin, Salon and The Village Voice.
 
Maureen Seaton's books of poetry include Miss Molly Rockin, Furious Cooking (winner of the Iowa Prize and a 1997 Lambda Award), Fear of Subways (winner of the 1991 Eighth Mountain Poetry) and Sea Among the Cupboards (winner of the 1992 Capricorn Award). She has been writing poems with Denise Duhamel for about ten years. Their collaborations have appeared in such magazines as Boston Review, Prairie Schooner, Indiana Review and American Voice. Their first collaborative book, Exquisite Politics, was published in 1997.
 
Susan Seligson's reporting and essays have appeared in The New York Times Magazine, Salon.com, The Atlantic Monthly, Redbook, Outside, Allure, and many other publications. Her weekly advice column, “Ask Susie,” appears in the Provincetown Banner. Seligson’s travelogue, Going with the Grain: A Wandering Bread-lover Takes a Bite Out of Life, was published in the fall of 2002 by Simon & Schuster. A memoir, Stacked: A 32DDD Reports from the Front, released in 2007 by Bloomsbury USA, was named one of the 100 best books of the year by Publishers Weekly.
 
Theresa Senft is a Ph.D. candidate in the Department of Performance Studies at New York University. She is currently completing a dissertation, to be published in 2001 by Peter Lang, on the female Web-camera 'stars' who have inspired films like The Truman Show. Her co-authored History of the Internet, 1843 - Present won an American Library Association citation as one of the best reference books of 1999, and her co-edited Sexuality & Cyberspace is currently assigned in over 50 universities. Terri has published essays in The Village Voice, has appeared on National Public Radio and was recently profiled in Lingua Franca. Her homepage and web camera are located at https://www.echonyc.com/~janedoe.
 
John Sellers is the author of PCAT: Preparation for the Pop-Culture Aptitude Test, a parody of the SAT using 1980s trivia. He writes regularly for Details, Time Out New York, TV Guide and Us, but is most proud of the fact that he once held the world record at Donkey Kong. He watches a lot of television at his apartment in Brooklyn.
 
David Seltzer's photographs have been collected and exhibited by the Museum of Modern Art, the Brooklyn Museum and the International Center of Photography. A monograph of his photography is entitled Rough Cuts.
 
Theresa Senft is a Ph.D. candidate in the Department of Performance Studies at New York University. She is currently completing a dissertation, to be published in 2001 by Peter Lang, on the female Web-camera 'stars' who have inspired films like The Truman Show. Her co-authored History of the Internet, 1843 - Present won an American Library Association citation as one of the best reference books of 1999, and her co-edited Sexuality & Cyberspace is currently assigned in over 50 universities. Terri has published essays in The Village Voice, has appeared on National Public Radio and was recently profiled in Lingua Franca. Her homepage and web camera are located at https://www.echonyc.com/~janedoe.
 
Andres Serrano studied photography at the Brooklyn Museum Art School in New York. He has received grants from the New York State Council on the Arts, the National Endowment for the Arts and other foundations. His photography has been exhibited at museums around the world, including The Whitney Museum of American Art, The Museum of Contemporary Art and The National Museum of Photography. Body and Soul is a bound collection of his work.
 
Ruth Shalit writes regularly on politics and culture for The New Republic, where she is Associate Editor. Her articles have also appeared in The New York Times Magazine, Gentleman's Quarterly and The New York Observer.
 
Dani Shapiro is the author of the novels Playing with Fire (1990), Fugitive Blue (1993), Picturing the Wreck (1996) and the memoir Slow Motion (1998). Her short stories and essays have appeared in The New Yorker, Granta, The New York Times Magazine and many other publications. She teaches creative writing at Columbia University, and in the graduate writing program at The New School.
 
Matthew Sharpe's stories have appeared in Harper's, Zoetrope, Southwest Review and other magazines. Stories from the Tube, his book of short fiction based on TV advertisements, was published in November 1998 by Villard Books. He has written nonfiction for Details, Elle, Conde Nast Traveler and New York Newsday.
 
Nic Sheff lives and works in LA.
 
Rachel Sherman is the author of a short story collection, THE FIRST HURT (Open City). Her short stories have appeared in McSweeney's, Open City, Post Road, Conjunctions, n+1, and Story Quarterly, among other publications, and in the book Full Frontal Fiction: The Best of Hooksexup Anthology. She holds an MFA in fiction from Columbia University.
 
David Shields is the author of eight books of fiction and nonfiction, including Black Planet (finalist for the National Book Critics Circle Award), Remote (winner of the PEN/Revson Award), and Body Politic (forthcoming from Simon & Schuster in May).
 
Ji Shin is a graduate of Art Center College of Design in Pasadena, CA, where she earned a BFA in photography and film. After a brief period in New York, she now resides in Los Angeles shooting pictures and concentrating on gallery work. You can view more of her work at jishinphoto.com.
 
 
Jason Shinder's second book of poems, Among Women, appeared in April 2001. He's the editor of several books, most recently Tales From The Couch: Writers On Therapy, The First Book Market and Best American Movie Writing, of which he is the series editor. He teaches in the graduate writing programs at Bennington College and New School University. Founder of the YMCA National Writer's Voice, he is also director of the writing program at the Sundance Institute.
 
Elaine Showalter is Avalon Foundation Professor of the Humanities and Professor of English at Princeton University.
 
Rachel Shukert is a playwright, performance artist, and actress who can often be seen on the hallowed stages of New York if she is not in Europe, where she wastes a lot of time. She is the co-founder of the soon-to-be legendary theater company, the Bushwick Hotel. Her work can be read at culturebot.org. E-mail her at .
 
Heidi Siedlecki is a multi-media artist living and working in New York City. She has exhibited her photography at the New York Hall of Science, Exit Art, White Columns, The Bronx Museum of the Arts and Gen Art, among others. She has been awarded a Heathcote Art Foundation grant and residencies at the Millay Colony for the Arts, the Ragdale Foundation and the Virginia Center for the Creative Arts.
 
Robert Anthony Siegel is the author of the novel All the Money in the World.
 
Steve Silberman is a regular contributor to Wired magazine and the senior culture writer for Wired News. He was a contributing editor for Allen Ginsberg's Snapshot Poetics. In 1994, Silberman co-authored Skeleton Key: A Dictionary for Deadheads with David Shenk. He is a conference host on the WELL.
 
Davitt Sigerson is a songwriter, a critically acclaimed recording artist (on Island Records), record producer (making albums with Tori Amos and the Bangles, among others), and a journalist who has written about music for Melody Maker, Rolling Stone, The Village Voice, and the New York Times. He was most recently a record executive: President of Polydor Records, President and CEO of EMI and Chrysalis Records, and finally Chairman of Island Records. He is now a full time writer hard at work on his second novel.
 
Charles Simic is a poet, essayist and translator. He teaches American literature and creative writing at the University of New Hampshire. Born in Belgrade in 1938, he left Yugoslavia in 1953. He has published eleven books and several anthologies of his translations of poetry. He is also the author of nineteen books of his own poetry and five books of prose. He has received numerous awards for his poems and translations, among them, the MacArthur fellowship and, in 1990, the Pulitzer Prize. His newest book is Jackstraws.
 
Mark Simpson is the author of It's a Queer World. His new book, The Queen is Dead: A Tale of Jarheads, Eggheads, Serial Killers and Bad Sex, co-written with Steven Zeeland, was published recently in the U.S.
 
Jen Sincero is a writer, musician, designer and stage performer. Formerly a frontwoman for numerous bands, she is the author of the novel Don't Sleep With Your Drummer, which has been optioned by HBO. She lives in Los Angeles.
 
 
Natasha Singer is a freelance writer based in New York.
 
Peter Singer is Ira W. DeCamp Professor of Bioethics at Princeton University, and the author of, among other works, Animal Liberation and (most recently) Writings on an Ethical Life.
 
RU Sirius was editor-in-chief of Mondo 2000 during its heyday in the early '90s. His most recent book, Countercultures Through the Ages: From Abraham to Acid House will be published by Villard in November 2004.
 
Hal Sirowitz is the Poet Laureate of Queens, New York and is the recipient of a Frederick Delius Award, the Susan Rose Recording Grant for Contemporary Jewish Music, a National Endowment for the Arts Fellowship, and a 2003 New York State Foundation for the Arts Fellowship. Sirowitz has performed on MTV's Spoken Word Unplugged, PBS's Poetry Heaven, and NPR's All Things Considered, Studio 360, and the Leonard Lopate Show, as well as on numerous stages across the country. His poems have been included in dozens of anthologies such as Garrison Keillor's Good Poems, Billy Collins's Poetry 180, Poetry in Motion from Coast to Coast, Poetry after 9/11, and 110 Stories: Writers Respond to 9/11. For more information, visit Hal’s website at www.halsirowitz.com.
 
Lauren Slater is a psychologist who has been published in five volumes of The Best American Essays.
 
Julia Slavin is the author of the short story collection The Woman who Cut off her Leg at the Maidstone Club. Her novel Carnivore Diet (WW Norton) will be published in July ‘05.
 
Romain Slocombe was born in 1953 in Paris. His career began as an illustrator and comic artist in the mid-seventies, until he started doing photography in 1992. He is the creator of "Medical Art," work focusing on images of young Asian women in plaster casts and dressings. Slocombe also directs video documentaries (A Floating World and Tokyo Love) and short movies (Woman in Plaster and Weekend in Tokyo), and is currently writing a series of novels. A new book of his erotic photographs taken in Tokyo was released at the beginning of 2001.
 
Meredith F. Small is Professor of Anthropology at Cornell University where she is teaching biological anthropology and primate behavior. She spent many years studying the mating behavior of macaque monkeys in captivity and in the field. Her most recent book is Our Babies, Ourselves: The Biology and Culture of Parenting.
 
Kolin Smith's photographs have appeared in The Washington Post Magazine, Entertainment Weekly and other magazines.
 
Amy Sohn wrote the notorious "Female Trouble" column in New York Press for three years and is also the author of the novel Run Catch Kiss.
Author photo by Tom LeGoff.
 
Dorian Solot is the executive director of the Alternatives to Marriage Project and the co-author of Unmarried to Each Other: The Essential Guide to Living Together as an Unmarried Couple!. She thanks her younger brother for getting married recently so her parents and grandparents could finally have a wedding.
 
"If Dah Len's photos are acid trip meets Andy Warhol," laughs Francesca Sorrenti, comparing their Eye of the Beholder experiences, "then mine are Manhattan a la Arkansas." Sorrenti, whose work has appeared in such magazines as Spin, I.D., George, and Italian Vogue, says the shoot was "very easygoing and comfortable," if uneventful. "Nobody fell out the window." After spending twelve years in Naples, Sorrenti now resides in Manhattan.
 
Born and raised in Borken, Germany, Bert Spangemacher followed high school with mandatory military service in the German Air Force in Canada, The Netherlands, Italy and at home in Germany. Throughout this time, he assisted a director/cinematographer in every aspect of filmmaking where he gained his first exposure to the elements of photography. At this point, his passion turned towards fashion and portraiture photography. He lives and works in New York.

To learn more about Bert Spangemacher, please visit:

https://www.spangemacher.com

 
Ian Spiegelman was born in Brooklyn in 1974 and raised in Bayside, Queens. A graduate of Queens College and a former staff writer for New York, he is currently a reporter for the New York Post's "Page Six" and a contributing editor at Details. He lives in Forest Hills, Queens.
 
Rob Spillman currently writes the book column for Details and is a frequent contributor of book reviews and essays to Salon. He has written for The Baltimore Sun, British GQ, Connoisseur, Colors, The New York Times Book Review, People (a brief, comical stint as the "alternative record reviewer"), Premiere, Rolling Stone, Sports Illustrated, SPY (when it was really SPY), Vanity Fair, Vogue, Worth and several other places he'd rather not remember.
 
David Sprigle is a photographer living in Venice Beach, California.
 
Ellen Stagg recently received her M.F.A. in Photography from the School of Visual Arts in New York. Her photographs have been published in Mademoiselle, Vibe, Revolver and Jane, among other magazines.
 
John Stagliano appeared in his first hardcore film in 1974, and began publishing his own porn zine in 1982. He produced his first video, Bouncing Buns, in 1983, and six years later created his own manufacturing company to sell his videos, which had begun to develop his famous Buttman character. He recently collaborated with Tristan Taormino to produce The Ultimate Guide to Anal Sex for Women, which took first place in two categories at this year's Adult Video News Awards.
 
Jerry Stahl has written for Esquire, Details and Playboy, among many others, as well as for TV and film. His acclaimed memoir, Permanent Midnight, about life on heroin and in Hollywood, was made into a movie starring Ben Stiller. Perv is his first novel.
 
  Darren Stehr resides in Toronto, Canada and has as much fun watching people respond to his work as he does creating it. Darren exhibits his work as much as possible, wherever he finds a brave enough location to deal with the bizarre occurrences that will follow. To learn more about his work, please visit https://www.darrenstehr.com.
 
Darcey Steinke's first novel, Up Through the Water, was selected as a Notable Book of the Year in 1989 by The New York Times. Suicide Blonde, her second novel, has been translated into seven languages. She has edited a collection of essays with Rick Moody entitled Joyful Noise: The New Testament Revisited, writes regularly for Spin, and recently came out with her third novel, the suburban gothic, Jesus Saves. Steinke grew up in Virginia and lives in Brooklyn, New York, with her husband and daughter.
 
Robert Stivers has shown his work extensively in the United States and Europe. His photographs are in the collections of the Los Angeles County Museum of Art, the Museum Ludwig and The Victoria and Albert Museum of Art. His "Phantasmagoric Bodies" were excerpted from the book, Robert Stivers, Photographs.
 
Jane Stevenson is the author of two collections of novellas, Several Deceptions and Good Women, and four novels, London Bridges, The Winter Queen, The Shadow King, and The Empress of the Last Days. She’s written for Harper’s, London Guardian and Observer. She lives in Aberdeenshire, Scotland.
 
Grant Stoddard What Grant Stoddard lacks in literary finesse, he more than makes up for with a formidable arsenal of catchphrases, euphemisms and double-entendre. Grant graduated from Thames Valley University, London in 1998. He turned his hand to rock stardom, bus driving, fraud management and drilling holes into small bits of metal, before becoming involved with Hooksexup in 2001.
 
Greta Stoddardt's poems have been published in many papers and magazines including Poetry Review, The North, Times Literary Supplement, Independent on Sunday and Verse. She has won several prizes, including first prize in the 1998 Exeter Poetry Prize. Her work was included in Paradise for Sale, an anthology edited by Selima Hill. She was awarded a Hawthornden International Fellowship in 1999. She lives in London and is working on a first collection of poetry.
 
Laurie Stone is author of the novel Starting With Serge, the memoir collection Close to the Bone and Laughing in the Dark, a collection of her writing on comic performance. A longtime writer for The Village Voice and The Nation, she has been critic-at-large on Fresh Air, has received grants from The New York Foundation for the Arts and MacDowell Colony, and in 1996 won the Nona Balakian Prize in Excellence in Criticism from the National Book Critics Circle.
 
Dan Strachota lives in San Francisco, where he writes for SF Weekly, East Bay Express, Magnet magazine and other, less reputable places. He also DJs for beers and bras, and writes a novel every November. Currently, he's enamored of the word "chocha."
 
 
Cheryl Strayed's fiction and memoir has appeared in several periodicals and anthologies, including The Best American Essays 2000. Strayed is currently enrolled in the M.F.A. program at Syracuse University, where she is writing her first novel.
 
James Strouse is a writer and cartoonist currently at work on his first collection of short stories, Beach Songs for the Landlocked. He was raised in Goshen, Indiana, and lives in New York City. This is his first published story.
 
 
Roy Stuart is a fine art photographer who resides in France.
 
Ron Sukenick's fiction has been inflaming readers since the unsexy 1950s, when he was almost kicked out of Cornell University for authoring pornographic stories. The publishing company he helps direct, FC2/Black Ice Books, is currently under attack in Congress for publishing obscene material.
 
For Hooksexup, Kate Sullivan has asked sideshow acts, magazine editors and an abstinence expert (among others) quite personal questions. Additional publications have also allowed this. Due to the existence of a more prolific Kate Sullivan, this one is considering changing her name, and is accepting suggestions. So far her favorites include: "Danger Sullivan," "V.S. Naipaul" and "Kate Sullivan, Private Eye."
 
Kate Sullivan lives in L.A. and writes about music, film and radio for the LA Weekly and on her blog: katesullivan.blogspot.com.
 
 
Luke Sutherland grew up in the Orkney Islands. He is the author most recently of Sweetmeat, and his first novel, Jelly Roll, was shortlisted for the 1999 Whitbread First Novel Award. He has never before been published in the U.S. He is also known for his musical collaborations with bands such as Mogwai and Long Fin Killie, and for his personal music project, Bows.
 
 
Carl Swanson is a freelance writer who is frantic enough about his romantic life without attempting to be bisexual, too. He writes for New York magazine and the New York Times, mostly, and lives in New York City.
 
Hiroshi Sunairi was born in Hiroshima in 1972. He came to the United States at the age of eighteen to study. At SUNY Purchase, Hiroshi evolved from the study of painting to performance art, video art, installation art and photography. He recently had a solo exhibition of his photographic collages at the Andrew Kreps Gallery.
 
Janusz Swiatczak was born in New York and educated in Poland. His photographs are included in the permanent collection of The Bibliotheque Nationale in Paris, France, as well as a number of private collections.


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