Writer and historian Owen Keehnen's work has appeared in dozens of magazines and anthologies worldwide. Keehnen is the author of the humorous gay novel Young Digby Swank, the gay novel The Sand Bar, and the horror novel Doorway Unto Darkness. He is the author of several M/M romances including The Dog Trainer, Springtime 1962, The Lawson YMCA, and Thunder Snow. Along with Tracy Baim, he co-authored Leatherman: The Legend of Chuck Renslow, Jim Flint: The Boy From Peoria, and Vernita Gray: From Woodstock to The White House. He is also the author of The LGBT Book of Days and over 100 of his interviews with various LGBT authors and activists from the 1990s have been collected in the book We're Here, We're Queer. He co-edited Nothing Personal: Chronicles of Chicago's LGBTQ Community 1977-1997), penned the foreword and helped edit Mark Abramson's book For My Brothers, contributed several interviews to Gay Press, Gay Power, and wrote ten biographical essays for the coffee table history book Out and Proud in Chicago. Keehnen was on the founding committee and executive board of The Legacy Project and currently serves as biographical research coordinator for the LGBT history-education-arts program. He authored the Starz books, a four-volume series of interviews with gay porn stars. He has had two queer monologues adapted for the stage, served as co-editor of the Windy City Times Pride Literary Supplement for several years, and was a co-founder of the horror film website RacksAndRazors.com. He lives in Chicago with his partner, Carl, and his two ridiculously spoiled dogs, Flannery and Fitzgerald. He was inducted into the Chicago Gay and Lesbian Hall of Fame in 2011.