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  <name><![CDATA[Lawrence Schimel]]></name>
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  <about><![CDATA[I'm a full-time author, anthologist, and translator (Spanish-&gt;English) living in Madrid, Spain.  

Writing in both Spanish and English, I've published over 90 books in a wide range of genres, including poetry (DESAYUNO EN LA CAMA and FAIRY TALES FOR WRITERS), children's books (LA AVENTURA DE CECILIA Y EL DRAGÓN, COSAS QUE PUEDO HACER YO SOLO, LITTLE PIRATE GOES TO SCHOOL, etc.), short stories (TWO BOYS IN LOVE, HIS TONGUE, THE DRAG QUEEN OF ELFLAND), graphic novels (VACATION IN IBIZA), and many anthologies (STREETS OF BLOOD: VAMPIRE STORIES FROM THE AMERICAN SOUTH, SWITCH HITTERS: LESBIANS WRITE GAY MALE EROTICA AND GAY MEN WRITE LESBIAN EROTICA, KOSHER MEAT, FOUND TRIBE: JEWISH COMING OUT STORIES, CAMELOT FANTASTIC, etc.)

I've twice won a Lambda Literary Award, for FIRST PERSON QUEER and PoMoSEXUALS: CHALLENGING ASSUMPTIONS ABOUT GENDER AND SEXUALITY.

My picture book ¿LEES UN LIBRO CONMIGO? was selected by the International Board of Books for Young People for Outstanding Books for Young People with Disabilities 2007 and my picture book NO HAY NADA COMO EL ORIGINAL was selected by the International Youth Library in Munich for the White Ravens 2005.

My poem &quot;How to Make a Human&quot; won the Rhysling Award for Best Science Fiction Poem.

I am also the publisher of A Midsummer Night's Press, a small poetry publisher, which has published THIS IS WHAT HAPPENED IN OUR OTHER LIFE by Achy Obejas, THE GOOD-NEIGHBOR POLICY: A DOUBLE CROSS IN DOUBLE DACTLYS by Charles Ardai, BANALITIES by Brane Mozetic, translated by Elizabeti Zargi, and FORTUNE'S LOVER: A BOOK OF TAROT POEMS by Rachel Pollack, as well as the annual series BEST GAY POETRY and BEST LESBIAN POETRY.]]></about>    <gender>male</gender>    <born_at>10/16/1971</born_at>    
  
  
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  <title><![CDATA[First Person Queer: Who We Are]]></title>
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      <name><![CDATA[Lawrence Schimel]]></name>
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        <author>
      <name><![CDATA[Richard Labonté]]></name>
      <link><![CDATA[http://www.goodreads.com/author/show/1429984]]></link>
    </author>
        <author>
      <name><![CDATA[R. Gay]]></name>
      <link><![CDATA[http://www.goodreads.com/author/show/1424989]]></link>
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  <average_rating>3.89</average_rating>
  <ratings_count>19</ratings_count>
  <published>2007</published>  
  
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        <book id="3197147">
  <title><![CDATA[Vampire Stories From the American South]]></title>
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      <name><![CDATA[Lawrence Schimel]]></name>
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    </author>
        <author>
      <name><![CDATA[Martin H. Greenberg]]></name>
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  <average_rating>2.62</average_rating>
  <ratings_count>13</ratings_count>
  <published>2007</published>  
  
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  <title><![CDATA[The Future Is Queer: A Science Fiction Anthology]]></title>
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      <name><![CDATA[Lawrence Schimel]]></name>
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      <name><![CDATA[Richard Labonté]]></name>
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  <average_rating>2.91</average_rating>
  <ratings_count>11</ratings_count>
  <published>2006</published>  
  
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  <title><![CDATA[Southern Blood: Vampire Stories from the American South (American Vampire Series)]]></title>
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      <name><![CDATA[Lawrence Schimel]]></name>
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        <author>
      <name><![CDATA[Martin H. Greenberg]]></name>
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  <average_rating>3.11</average_rating>
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  <published>1997</published>  
  
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        <book id="471713">
  <title><![CDATA[The Drag Queen of Elfland: Short Stories]]></title>
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      <name><![CDATA[Lawrence Schimel]]></name>
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  <average_rating>4.00</average_rating>
  <ratings_count>7</ratings_count>
  <published>1997</published>  
  
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        <book id="500057">
  <title><![CDATA[Blood Lines: Vampire Stories from New England (American Vampire Series)]]></title>
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      <name><![CDATA[Lawrence Schimel]]></name>
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        <author>
      <name><![CDATA[Kristine Kathryn Rusch]]></name>
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        <author>
      <name><![CDATA[Martin H. Greenberg]]></name>
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        <author>
      <name><![CDATA[Stephen King]]></name>
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        <author>
      <name><![CDATA[Chelsea Quinn Yarbro]]></name>
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        <author>
      <name><![CDATA[H.P. Lovecraft]]></name>
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  <average_rating>4.75</average_rating>
  <ratings_count>4</ratings_count>
  <published>1997</published>  
  
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        <book id="819031">
  <title><![CDATA[The Mammoth Book of New Gay Erotica]]></title>
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      <name><![CDATA[Lawrence Schimel]]></name>
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        <author>
      <name><![CDATA[Alan Holllinghurst]]></name>
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  <published>2007</published>  
  
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        <book id="1373863">
  <title><![CDATA[Little Pirate Goes to Bed]]></title>
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      <name><![CDATA[Lawrence Schimel]]></name>
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  <average_rating>3.67</average_rating>
  <ratings_count>3</ratings_count>
  <published>2007</published>  
  
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        <book id="819033">
  <title><![CDATA[Found Tribe: Jewish Coming Out Stories]]></title>
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      <name><![CDATA[Lawrence Schimel]]></name>
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  <average_rating>4.50</average_rating>
  <ratings_count>2</ratings_count>
  <published>2002</published>  
  
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  <title><![CDATA[Things Invisible to See: Gay and Lesbian Tales of Magic Realism]]></title>
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      <name><![CDATA[Rand B. Lee]]></name>
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      <name><![CDATA[Sarah Schulman]]></name>
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      <name><![CDATA[Kerry Bashford]]></name>
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      <name><![CDATA[Lesléa Newman]]></name>
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      <name><![CDATA[Brian M. Thomsen]]></name>
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      <name><![CDATA[Michelle Sagara West]]></name>
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        <author>
      <name><![CDATA[Laura Antoniou]]></name>
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        <author>
      <name><![CDATA[Mel Odom]]></name>
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        <author>
      <name><![CDATA[Martha Soukup]]></name>
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        <author>
      <name><![CDATA[Nancy Springer]]></name>
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  <average_rating>2.25</average_rating>
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  <published>1998</published>  
  
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