Never Easy
Johnny Murdoc (johnnymurdoc.com) is 30 years old and lives in St. Louis, MO with his partner of nine years. His interests include porn, comics, and copyright law. He likes bike rides and sci-fi movies. He is the publisher of Queer Young Cowboys, a micro-pub focused on supporting cerebral and raunchy gay lit. His writing has appeared in several anthologies, including Best Gay Erotica 2011. He is a co-founder of Sex Positive St. Louis (www.sexstl.com), an organization dedicated to providing safe spaces for discussion and education. Natty Soltesz (nattysoltesz.com) has been writing erotica since 2001 when he began submitting stories to the Nifty Erotic Stories Archive (for which he is still a faithful contributor). Since then he’s had stories published in magazines like Freshmen, Mandate and Handjobs and in anthologies like Best Gay Erotica 2011, Best Gay Romance 2010, and Second Person Queer. Soltesz co-wrote the screenplay for the 2009 Joe Gage-directed porn film Dad Takes a Fishing Trip and contributed dialogue to Gage’s 2006 film Lifeguard! In 2011 Queer Mojo published his novel Backwoods, which is a Lambda Literary Award finalist. He lives in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania. Rob Wolfsham (wolfshammy.com) writes insincere chronicles, lost men, orphic futures and glacial hearts. He believes in subverting your superego, forest sojourns, and quietly destroying assimilation. His short stories have appeared in numerous anthologies, including Best Gay Erotica 2010 (Cleis Press, 2010), Best Gay Erotica 2011 (Cleis Press, 2011), and the Lambda Literary Award finalist, I Like It Like That: True Stories of Gay Male Desire (Arsenal Pulp Press, 2009). He was born and raised in Houston, Texas, and lives in the Friendship neighborhood of Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania.