About Our Authors

ALDEN KIRBY is 25 years of age and was born in Pennsylvania. He attended college there and is now assistant to a literary agent. He is single and names as his hobbies "piano, painting, garden masonry and New York City." ONE Magazine was the first magazine to publish work by Mr. Kirby. Since then he has appeared in Colorado Quarterly, American Poetry, Humanist, The Outlook and various other publications and newspapers. He writes: "I suppose I got started writing seriously because both my parents are dreamers and I felt the need to out-dream them!"

LUTHER ALLEN has been previously published in ONE, Mattachine Review, etc. He describes himself as an amateur writer who believes" it is as necessary for the homosexual to rediscover the values upon which our civilization rests; to believe in them and to apply them in his daily life, as it is to effect a change in society's attitude towards him."

BERN HARD has his B.S. degree and is currently working for his M.A. He was born in Germany in 1932. He's been previously seen in ONE and has been published also in "Riverside Anthology II."

DAN MARTIN is four and twenty years old. His education, says he, was

bit normal." He lives in the "town of Los Angeles" and his hobbies, besides writing are "acting, music, art and reading." He is now working on completion of a novel titled "Song of a Faun."

J. PHOENICE was born and lives at present on the British Isles. Her occupation is "housewife." Her plans, "to write further and better poetry." THE GUILD PRESS of England, publishers of her first book of poems LIGHTFALL (number Seventeen in the Guild Poets Series) writes that "Her poems have appeared in more than one hundred and twenty different literary magazines and journals throughout the English-speaking world."

SUSAN SMPADIAN hails from New York and has appeared in Stepladder, Long Island Star Journal, Brooklyn College-Nocturne, and Poets of America.

J. P. STARR is a Professional Engineer. As an Historical Student he has been making a nextensive study of homosexuality through the ages and has been working on this project for the past 40 years. The article included in this issue (and all we have for future use) are documented and can be supported by past records. The short-story in this issue under the obviously synthetic nom de plume of SHOJI UMO is published posthumously. Mr. Umo was a native of Southern California with an intense curiosity and love for the beauty of the West. His knowledge of Los Angeles and Hollywood during the rise of the motion picture industry was exhaustive.

RICK, author of "Lost Souls" lives in North Carolina.

STEN RUSSELL is 32 and a native of Los Angeles. After college at Berkeley and UCLA as a math major she became an engineering draughtsman. She is interested in modern poetry, Dixieland jazz and folk music.

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