Bronx-born wordsmith Larry Benjamin is the author of the Vampire novella, "Vampire Rising," the gay novels "Unbroken" and "What Binds Us" and the short story collection "Damaged Angels." "Unbroken" is a 2014 Lambda Literary Award finalist, and has won a 2014 IPPY (Independent Publishers) Gold Medal in the gay fiction category."Damaged Angels" was a 2013 Rainbow Award Runner-Up in the Best Gay Contemporary General Fiction category.Benjamin considers himself less a writer than a wordsmith - an artist whose chosen medium is the written word rather than clay or paint or bronze. His passion is words.He lives in Philadelphia, PA, USA with his husband (they were married in June 2014 on their 17th anniversary, which was also the 45th anniversary of the Stonewall riots) and their two rescue dogs.For more about Larry and his writing, visit his website at www.larrybenjamin.com or his blog at authorlarrybenjamin.blogspot.com