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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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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 Nerve: 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 http://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
http://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 Nerve. 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 mmorford@mindspring.com. |
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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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Jack
Murnighan 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 Nerve, Jack's Naughty Bits, was collected and released as a book
in Summer 2001. He used to be the editor-in-chief of Nerve 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. |
