photo by John Williams, Toledo, Spain

CHARLIE VAZQUEZ

Charlie Vazquez is the Cubano-Nuyorican author of novels, screenplays, short stories and essays. He is included in the academic essay anthology Queer and Catholic and will finish his second novel Contraband in 2008. During the 1980s and 1990s he performed in experimental, electronic and punk bands in Portland, Oregon. He has also lived in Southern California and Baja Mexico and currently resides in his hometown of New York City, where he is the assistant to diva-chanteuse Diamanda Galás, one of the world's most controversial musicians. Visit him at the Village Voice’s Naked City blog, for which he was a contributor. He also hosts a reading series called "Freaks Read" at Nowhere, in the East Village.

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