Join us for readings from Scott Alexander Hess, John Copenhaver, Debra Hyde, and Robert Hyers! This varied group of authors will be sharing excerpts from short stories and novels.
Scott Alexander Hess received his MFA in Creative Writing in Fiction from The New School. He blogs for The Huffington Post and his writing has appeared in Genre Magazine, The Fix and elsewhere. He co-wrote the award winning short film Tom In America starring Sally Kirkland and Burt Young. The Butcher's Son, his third...
Join us for readings from Scott Alexander Hess, John Copenhaver, Debra Hyde, and Robert Hyers! This varied group of authors will be sharing excerpts from short stories and novels.
Scott Alexander Hess received his MFA in Creative Writing in Fiction from The New School. He blogs for The Huffington Post and his writing has appeared in Genre Magazine, The Fix and elsewhere. He co-wrote the award winning short film Tom In America starring Sally Kirkland and Burt Young. The Butcher's Son, his third novel, was named a Kirkus Reviews Best Book 2015. Scott is a native of St. Louis Missouri and lives in Manhattan, NY.
John Copenhaver was a quarterfinalist in the Amazon Breakthrough Novel Award for his novel, Dodging and Burning, a literary murder mystery that explores the truth behind the photograph of a crime scene taken by a young war photographer, and its connection to the complex discriminatory attitudes toward homosexuals during the 1940s. He graduated with a BA from Davidson College, MA in literature from Bread Loaf School of English, and a MFA in fiction from GMU, where he served as Executive Editor of Phoebe. Currently, John chairs 7-12 English Department at Flint Hill, a college preparatory school, outside of Washington, DC.
Debra Hyde has penned erotica fiction for nearly twenty years that spans the spectra of orientation and proclivities. Her short fiction and nonfiction has appeared in several Lambda Literary Award-winning anthologies and her own novel, Story of L, won the 2011 Lambda Literary Award for lesbian erotica. A modern retelling of the classic Story of O, it updates the original tale to reflect the contemporary lesbian leather world and the women in it. She now pens The Charlotte Olmes Mystery Series, which chronicles the crime-solving adventures of Charlotte Olmes and Joanna Wilson. Yes, the famous Holmes and Watson cohorts are reimagined as a lesbians living in Gilded Age New York City! (Unlike their male predecessors, Olmes and Wilson are not prudish celibates.) Its second book, The Tattered Heiress is a finalist in both the 2016 Lambda Literary Awards and Golden Crown Literary Awards.
Robert Hyers is a queer short story writer and novelist. His short story collection, Spinning the Record, will be published by Lethe Press in July.
