Jameson Currier (October 16, 1955) is an American novelist, short story writer, poet, critic, journalist, editor, and publisher. Early life and education Currier was born in Marietta, Georgia. He earned a B.A. in English from Emory University, where he participated in music and theater groups. He began graduate studies in dramatic literature at New York University in 1978, but left before completing a degree. Career Currier took a position with an entertainment publicity firm that handled theater accounts while pursuing his writing part-time. His first short stories centered on the comic adventures of a group of nomadic performers that he based on his friends. The subject and theme of his short stories changed as many of these friends became early casualties of the AIDS epidemic. Writer David B. Feinberg brought Currier's AIDS stories to the attention of Edward Iwanicki, an editor at Viking Penguin who published the work of many gay male writers. Currier's first published collection of short stories, Dancing on the Moon: Short Stories About AIDS (1993), focused on the impact of AIDS on the families, friends, and partners of gay men who were facing the disease. In the early 1990s, Currier contributed anonymous book reviews to the trade magazine Publishers Weekly and he then reviewed gay-themed books for local and national gay and mainstream publications. He was a member of the National Book Critics Circle from 1994 to 2000. From 1993 to 1996, Currier wrote features, articles, and interviews for Body Positive, a monthly magazine for the HIV-positive community. He wrote the screenplay for the documentary film Living Proof: HIV and the Pursuit of Happiness (1994), based on the studio portraits of HIV-positive people by photographer Carolyn Jones. In 1998, Currier published his debut novel Where the Rainbow Ends, about a young gay man from the South who arrives to Manhattan in the late 1970s and falls in with a group of artistic friends, who are pulled apart and bonded together by the unexpected challenges of the AIDS epidemic. The novel was a shortlisted nominee for the Lambda Literary Award for Gay Fiction at the 11th Lambda Literary Awards in 1999. Currier continued to write short stories on AIDS issues and gay male relationships, several of which were first published in new Internet ventures such as Blithe House Quarterly and Velvet Mafia. His second book of short fiction, Desire, Lust, Passion, Sex (2004), collected many of these