(b. American, 1969) Sean Meriwether came to the Internet understanding the huge potential for exchanging ideas and information, and developed his website as a platform to promote his fiction. Beginning with a free webspace at Geocities.com, he learned to hard code HTML because it was more versatile than their WYSIWYG editor. His search for versatility encouraged him to develop beyond the limitations of straight HTML into PHP, CSS, JavaScript, and other dynamic functions.

He took that knowledge and constructed websites as canvases to experiment upon and hone his skills. Among them is Outsider Ink, an alternative ezine established in 1999 to promote fiction, poetry and artwork that defies categorization. He developed a global readership of approximately 100,000 per quarterly issue. The ezine has been praised for its bold content and sleek design and named as one of the top five markets for new writers by Writer’s Digest in 2003. Building upon the success of Outsider Ink, he created Velvet Mafia: Dangerous Queer Fiction to market gay books and authors. His experience as an editor for the two ezines has helped him ferret out the strengths and weaknesses in other writer's fiction, lessons he was able to apply to his own work. He is also the website designer and finalist committee member for Project: QueerLit, which solicits alternative novel manuscripts for publication.

His work has or will be published in the second installment of Best of Best Gay Erotica, Law of Desire, as well as online in Lodestar Quarterly and 3AM Magazine. He is currently marketing his collection of short fiction, "The Silent Hustler" and a novel, "Kingdom Falls."

Sean graduated from New York University with a BA in English and Creative Writing.

Curriculum Vitae

Short Fiction

• “Raise Your Expectations”, Hot Cops (Cleis Press - June, 2007)
• “So Long Anita Bryant, And Thanks For Everything”, 20th Century Q (Lethe Press - Forthcoming)
• “Read Any Good Books Lately: A Literary Intervention”, PORN! (Southern Tier - June, 2007)
• “Exiles”, So Fey (Haworth Press - Forthcoming, 2007)
• “www.menschangingroom.com”, His Underwear (Haworth Press - June, 2007)
• “A Body In Motion”, Best Gay Love Stories 2006 (Alyson Books - January, 2006)
• “The Binds That Tie Us”, Out of Control: Erotic Wild Rides (Suspect Thoughts Press - November, 2005)
• “Boys In Summer”, Lodestar Quarterly (June, 2005)
• “Convergence”, Wild Strawberries (June, 2005)
• “Knives And Roses”, Skin & Ink (Alyson - April, 2005) , Hot Gay Erotica (Cleis Press, 2006)
• “Ex-Boyfriend Stew”, N.O.L.A. Spleen (November, 2004)
• “Rumford's Fluid”, Excess Compassion (June, 2004) and Velvet Mafia (November, 2004). Selected for the StorySouth's Million Writers Award for top online short stories of 2004.
• “The Skin of My Soul”, The Big Book of Erotic Ghost Stories (Bookspan - May, 2004, republished by Blue Moon Books - June, 2005) and Exotic Gothic (Ash-Tree Press - 2007)
• “Sneaker Queen”, Love Under Foot: An Erotic Celebration of Feet (Haworth Press - May, 2004)
• “The Bathroom Rebellion”, Quickies 3 (Arsenal Pulp Press - October, 2003)
• “The Things I Can’t Tell My Father”, Lodestar Quarterly (June, 2003)
• “Into the Mouth (Becoming the Fly)”, GetUnderground.com (July, 2003)
• “Rope Music (Fifty-three Minutes)”, Word Riot (June, 2003)
• “exhibition”, Velvet Mafia (March, 2003)
• “A Small Empty Room”, 3AM Magazine (November, 2002)
• “Marking Territory”, Of the Flesh (Suspect Thoughts Press - December, 2001)
• “Kiss the Concrete”, Suspect Thoughts (January, 2001) and Best Gay Erotica 2002 (Cleis Press - December, 2002)
• “For Hire”, exhibited at A Different Light, NY (October, 1999), Suspect Thoughts (January, 2000), Best Gay Erotica 2001 (Cleis Press - December, 2001), Velvet Mafia (August, 2002), Best of Best Gay Erotica 2001-2005 (Cleis Press - 2005)
• “The Theory of Forward Motion”, Velvet Mafia (February, 2002), Law of Desire: Tales of Male Lust and Obsession (Alyson - June, 2004)
• “Sunday Night, Going Nowhere”, Outsider Ink (September, 1999)
• “The Taster”, Outsider Ink (December, 1999), ShortStory.org (January, 2000)
• “Other People’s Laundry”, Outsider Ink (June, 1999)

Nonfiction

• “Sex Through The Camera”, Sex in the West Village, NYC (July, 2007)
• “Through The Camera: The Photography of Jack Slomovits”, Le Magazine de Nos Préférences (July, 2005)
• “Two Men in Search of a Label”, I Do / I Don't: Queer Writers on Marriage (Suspect Thoughts Press - November, 2004)
• Interview with Jameson Currier, author of Desire Lust Passion Sex, Velvet Mafia (May, 2003)
• Interview with Wayne Courtois, author of My Name Is Rand, Velvet Mafia (March, 2003)

Editorial & Other Projects

• Managing Editor: Outsider Ink - Alternative literary fiction, poetry and artwork
• Managing Editor: Velvet Mafia: Dangerous Queer Fiction
• Editor: Men of Mystery: Homoerotic Tales of Intrigue and Suspense (Haworth Press - July, 2007)
• Content Editor: TheGayMaleBody.com - Free Gay Search
• Project: QueerLit - Contest Coordinator
• The Arch and Bruce Brown Foundation - Board Member

Press

• [2] Magazine interviews artistic power-couple Sean Meriwether & Jack Slomovits
• Interview by William S. Dean, Erotica Readers & Writers Association (July, 2005)
• Interview by Jameson Currier, Velvet Mafia, (November, 2004)