Perry Brass

Fiction Writer, Poet

Bronx, NY
New York US
Email: 
belhuepress@earthlink.net
Website: 
www.perrybrass.com

Author's Bio

“... something as close to being in love as he would ever get was hitting him. . . Just watching John, a vast, powerful electrical charge hit him. It was stupendous. He was outrageously in love with him.” Carnal Sacraments, 2007.
“A pioneer of gay literature” (ForeWord magazine), poet/novelist/playwright and activist Perry Brass has published 19 books including How to Survive Your Own Gay Life, The Harvest, Angel Lust, Warlock, The Substance of God, and Carnal Sacraments, A Historical Novel of the Future—“one of the most unusual novels I’ve read in years,” said Bay Area Reporter. His latest book is The Manly Pursuit of Desire and Love; latest novel King of Angels, A Novel About the Genesis of Identity and Belief, finalist for a Ferro-Grumley Award from the Ferro-Grumley Foundation. He has been featured in 30 anthologies, taught workshops, and his more than 70 collaborations with composers have been performed at Carnegie Hall and in London, Amsterdam, Berlin, and Tokyo. He blogs for the Huffington Post and lives in the Bronx. www.perrybrass.com

Publications & Prizes

Fiction

Anthology:
What Does It Mean to be White in America (2Leaf Press, 2016)
Books:
King of Angels, A Novel About the Genesis of Identity and Belief (Belhue Press, 2012)
,
Carnal Sacraments, A Historical Novel of the Future (Belhue Press, 2008)
Journals:
Christopher Street
,
James White Review

Poetry

Anthologies:
Serendipity, The Gay Times Book of New Stories (Millivres-Prowler, GMP,, 2004)
,
Columbia Anthology of Gay Literature (Columbia University Press, 1998)
Books:
Assaracus (Sibling Rivalry Press, 2011)
,
The Substance of God (Belhue Press, 2003)
,
Warlock: A Novel of Possession (Belhue Press, 2001)
,
The Lover of my Soul (Belhue Press, 1998)
,
The Harvest (Belhue Press, 1997)
,
Sex-Charge (Belhue Press, 1991)
Prizes won: 

finalist 6 times for Lambda Literary Awards, finalist 2008 for ForeWord Book of the Year Award for Carnal Sacraments; IPPY Award from Independent Publisher for Warlock, A Novel of Possession (2002) Carnal Sacraments, A Historical Novel of the Future (2008), and King of Angels. Finalist, 2013 for a Ferro-Grumley Award for LGBT Fiction.

Personal Favorites

What I'm reading now: 
The Idiot by Dosteyevsky, Strangers on a Train by Patricia Highsmith, A Heaven of Words by Glenway Wescott, edited by Jerry Rosco, Ivanhoe by Sir Walter Scott

More Information

Gives readings: 
Yes
Travels for readings: 
Yes
Identifies as: 
LGBTQ
Prefers to work with: 
LGBTQ, Seniors
Born in: 
Savannah
Raised in: 
Savannah, GA
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Last update: Apr 26, 2016