Brass, Perry: - An award-winning poet, author, and gay-rights pioneer, Perry Brass has published 23 books, including poetry, novels, plays, journalism, short fiction, speculative fiction, young-adult fiction, and bestselling advice books, like The Manly Art of Seduction, and has also been included in 35 anthologies and books of critical studies. As a poet and collaborator, he has had 100 poems set to music by many notable composers. His latest book is A Life Without Money, and Other Poems. You can find out more about him at www.perrybrass.com. He lives in New York City,