Member Since: Jan. 17, 2011

Jameson Currier


Biography

Jameson Currier is the author of three novels, Where the Rainbow Ends, nominated for a Lambda Literary award, The Third Buddha, and The Wolf at the Door, and four collections of short fiction: Dancing on the Moon; Desire, Lust, Passion, Sex; Still Dancing: New and Selected Stories; and The Haunted Heart and Other Tales, which was awarded a Black Quill Award for Best Dark Genre Fiction Collection. His short fiction has appeared in many literary magazines and Web sites, including OutsiderInk, Velvet Mafia, Blithe House Quarterly, Absinthe Literary Review, Confrontation, Rainbow Curve, Christopher Street, Harrington Gay Men’s Fiction Quarterly, and the anthologies Men on Men 5, Best American Gay Fiction 3, Certain Voices, Boyfriends from Hell, Men Seeking Men, Mammoth Book of New Gay Erotica, Best Gay Erotica, Best American Erotica, Best Gay Romance, Best Gay Stories, Circa 2000, Rebel Yell, I Do/I Don't, Where the Boys Are, Nine Hundred & Sixty-Nine, Wilde Stories, Unspeakable Horror, and Making Literature Matter. His AIDS-themed short stories have also been translated into French by Anne-Laure Hubert and published as Les Fantômes. His reviews, essays, interviews, and articles on AIDS and gay culture have been published in many national and local publications, including The Washington Post, The Los Angeles Times, Newsday, The Dallas Morning News, The St. Louis Post-Dispatch, The Minneapolis Star-Tribune, The Philadelphia Inquirer Magazine, Lambda Book Report, The Harvard Gay and Lesbian Review, Dallas Voice, The Washington Blade, Southern Voice, Metrosource, Bay Area Reporter, Frontiers, Ten Percent, The New York Native, The New York Blade, Out, and Body Positive. In 2010, he founded Chelsea Station Editions, an independent press devoted to gay literature. In 2011, the press began publishing Chelsea Station, a new literary magazine devoted to gay writing. Currier currently resides in Manhattan.

Where to find Jameson Currier online

Website: http://www.jamesoncurrier.com
Blog: http://jamesoncurrier.blogspot.com/

Where to buy in print

http://www.chelseastationeditions.com

Books

Chelsea Station Issue 2    by Jameson Currier
Price: $7.99 USD. 82460 words. Published by Chelsea Station Editions  on March 7, 2012. Fiction.
The second issue of the popular new literary magazine of gay writing, edited by Jameson Currier, features ten short stories, six new poems, a never-before-published one-act play, a travel memoir, and several essays, interviews, book columns, and reviews on gay literature.
Where the Rainbow Ends    by Jameson Currier
Price: $9.99 USD. 183130 words. Published by Chelsea Station Editions  on December 23, 2011. Fiction.
A powerful, compelling, and heartfelt first novel of a young gay man's quest for faith, family, and understanding during the early years of the AIDS epidemic.
Chelsea Station Issue 1    by Jameson Currier
Price: $7.99 USD. 76240 words. Published by Chelsea Station Editions  on October 30, 2011. Fiction.
Chelsea Station is a new literary magazine of gay writing, edited by Jameson Currier.
Still Dancing    by Jameson Currier
Price: $7.99 USD. 109430 words. Published by Chelsea Station Editions  on October 15, 2011. Fiction.
In Still Dancing author Jameson Currier brings together twenty short stories spanning three decades of the impact of the AIDS epidemic on the gay community. Along with stories from Currier's debut collection, Dancing on the Moon, praised by The Village Voice as "defiant and elegiac," are ten newly selected stories written by one of our preeminent masters of the short narrative form.
Dancing on the Moon    by Jameson Currier
Price: $5.99 USD. 59040 words. Published by Chelsea Station Editions  on October 8, 2011. Fiction.
From the author of Where the Rainbow Ends and The Haunted Heart, this debut collection of short stories, first published in 1993, was praised for its courageous and compassionate depiction of the impact of AIDS on gay men and their families and friends.
The Third Buddha    by Jameson Currier
Price: $9.99 USD. 106000 words. Published by Chelsea Station Editions  on July 30, 2011. Fiction.
Jameson Currier expands his richly detailed storytelling to an international level in this new novel, weaving together the intertwining stories of the search for a missing journalist in Afghanistan with a young man's search for his older brother in Manhattan in the aftermath of 9/11. The result is a sweeping, multi-cultural novel of what it means to be a gay citizen of the world.
The Haunted Heart and Other Tales    by Jameson Currier
Price: $7.99 USD. 90040 words. Published by Chelsea Station Editions  on December 28, 2010. Fiction.
Haunted? Or blessed? Ghosts? Or guardian angels? Twelve new stories of gay men and the memories that haunt them. Jameson Currier modernizes the traditional ghost story with gay lovers, loners, activists, and addicts, blending history and contemporary issues of the gay community with the unexpected of the supernatural. Winner of a Black Quill Award 2010
The Wolf at the Door    by Jameson Currier
Price: $6.00 USD. 92080 words. Published by Chelsea Station Editions  on August 8, 2010. Fiction.
From the award-winning author of Where the Rainbow Ends and The Haunted Heart comes a witty tour de force of spirits, spooks, and sinners, a supernatural roller coaster set in the Big Easy that is giddy, soulful, and sentimental.

Jameson Currier’s tag cloud

aids    aids fiction    aids literature    american short stories    chelsea    french quarter    gay    gay book reviews    gay books    gay debut    gay drama    gay fantasy    gay fiction    gay fiction novel afghanistan bamiyan manhattan 911    gay ghost    gay ghost story    gay humor    gay literature    gay memoir    gay men    gay nonfiction    gay novel    gay play    gay poems    gay poetry    gay poets    gay short stories    gay studies    gay theater    gay writers    gay writing    ghost    ghost story    homosexual    manhattan    new orleans    new york    paranormal    queer    queer spec    short fiction    short stories    short stories gay fiction gay men gay studies aids    spec fiction    supernatural