Carol Rosenfeld (she/her) has been the Chair of The Publishing Triangle for many years. In 2023 she received a Gay City News Impact Award in recognition of her service, and she is a proud member of the Saints & Sinners Literary Festival Hall of Fame. Her novel, The One That Got Away, was published by Bywater Books in 2015.
Rob Byrnes is the Lambda Literary Award-winning author of six novels and several short stories and essays. He has been a member of The Publishing Triangle Steering Committee for more than a decade, and currently serves as Treasurer. He also serves on the Boards of Directors of Big Apple Performing Arts, the parent organization of the NYC Gay Men’s Chorus, and The Other Side of Silence (TOSOS), New York City’s oldest LGBTQ+ theater company. He has been inducted into the Saints & Sinners Literary Festival Hall of Fame and has been recognized with a Gay City News Impact Award and inclusion on City & State NY’s annual “Gay Power 100” list.
David Groff is an independent book editor and the author of three books of poems: Live in Suspense, Clay, and Theory of Devolution. With Philip Clark, he edited Persistent Voices: Poetry by Writers Lost to AIDS; with Jim Elledge, he edited Who’s Yer Daddy?: Gay Writers Celebrate Their Mentors and Forerunners. He teaches poetry, nonfiction, and publishing in the MFA creative writing program at the City College of New York. David is a cofounder of the Publishing Triangle. www.davidgroff.com
Emanuel Xavier is author of the poetry books Pier Queen, Americano, If Jesus Were Gay, Nefarious, Radiance, Selected Poems of Emanuel Xavier, and Love(ly) Child. He is recipient of a New York City Council Citation and a Gay City Impact Award for his many contributions to NYC arts culture. His books have been finalists for International Latino Book Awards and Lambda Literary Awards and his work has appeared in Poetry, A Gathering of the Tribes, Best American Poetry, and elsewhere. www.emanuelxavier.org
Ariana Abad is a Filipina emerging writer of literary fiction. She received the Beverly Saul Award for Fiction Writing and her work has appeared in the Bergen Scholarly Journal, Unfold Magazine, The Labyrinth literary magazine, The Torch, Fifty Word Stories, and more. A lover of travel, good books, good food, and good company, Ariana aims to encourage and uplift the voices that matter to her most, especially in the AANHPI and LGBTQIA+ spaces.
Jim Berg is a writer, editor, and consultant. His academic work, published as James J. Berg, includes The Isherwood Century (U Wisconsin Press), edited with Chris Freeman, which won the Lambda Literary Award for Gay Studies in 2000. His most recent book is Isherwood on Writing (U Minnesota Press). He is also a freelance developmental editor and consultant, working with writers on academic and nonacademic projects. Jamesjberg.com
Joe Okonkwo’s debut novel Jazz Moon, set against the backdrop of the Harlem Renaissance and glittering Jazz Age Paris, won the Publishing Triangle’s prestigious Edmund White Award for Debut Fiction and was a finalist for a Lambda Literary Award. Joe’s short stories have appeared in Volume I Brooklyn, The Piltdown Review, The New Engagement, Storychord, Penumbra, Promethean, Shotgun Honey, Love Stories from Africa, Best Gay Stories 2015, and Strength. His short story “Cleo” was nominated for a Pushcart Prize. Joe served as Prose Editor for Newtown Literary and he edited Best Gay Stories 2017. He earned an MFA in Creative Writing from City College of New York. Joe’s story collection, Kiss the Scars on the Back of my Neck, was an Independent Book Publisher Awards silver medalist in the LGBT fiction category. He is represented by the Baldi Literary Agency. Joe Okonkwo lives, works, and writes in Queens, New York City.
William Christy Smith is a museum and library professional who lives in New Orleans. His stories have appeared in Deep South, Arkansas Review, Louisiana Literature, and six issues of the Saints & Sinners Literary Anthology. He holds a bachelor of arts degree in English from Westminster College, Fulton, MIssouri, a master of Liberal Arts degree from the University of Chicago, and a master of Arts Administration degree from the University of New Orleans.
Gerard Cabrera is the author of short fiction, poems, and the novel Homo Novus, published by Rattling Good Yarns Press in 2022. His writing has appeared in literary journals such as The Acentos Review, Jonathan, Kweli, Apricity, Digging Press, and Angel Rust. A naturalized Brooklynite, Gerard hails from the Puerto Rican community of Springfield, Massachusetts, the birthplace of Dr. Seuss, basketball, and the first American dictionary.