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K.M. Soehnlein is the author of the new novel ROBIN AND RUBY, the story of a brother and sister during one eventful weekend in the summer of 1985. The novel follows the main characters from Soehnlein's debut, THE WORLD OF NORMAL BOYS, winner of the Lambda Award for Gay Men's Fiction. Soehnlein's novel YOU CAN SAY YOU KNEW ME WHEN, was praised by The L.A. Times's Regina Marler as "a dense, enjoyable read, like one of those famed Beat road trips: pedal to the metal until the next inspired digression."

His stories and essays have appeared in the anthologies GIRLS WHO LIKE BOYS WHO LIKE BOYS; BOYS TO MEN: GAY MEN WRITE ABOUT GROWING UP; LOVE, CASTRO STREET; and BOOKMARK NOW. His journalism has appeared in Out, The Village ...more


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Introducing Temporary Shelter: a collection of interwoven stories that I edited and wrote with ten writers in my seminar at the University of San Francisco's MFA in Writing Program. Buy the book on Lulu.com. If you're in San Francisco, come... read more »
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The World of Normal Boys
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An essay in the form of a narrative, told in the first-person plural voice. The "we" that narrates the book is the collective voice of a generation: the young women brought to the U.S. from Japan in the early 20th Century, promised as brides for men ...more
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