James Earl Hardy is the author of the best-selling B-Boy Blues series: B-Boy Blues (praised as the first gay hip hop love story), 2nd Time Around, If Only For One Nite, The Day Eazy-E Died, Love The One You're With, and A House Is Not a Home. The seventh installment in the series, "Is It Still Jood To Ya?," is featured in the anthology, Visible Lives: Three Stories in Tribute to E. Lynn Harris. His one-man show about adult film actor Tiger Tyson, Confessions of a Homo Thug Porn Star, recently won the Dowtown Urban Theater Festival's Best Short Prize. A 1993 honors graduate of Columbia university's School of Journalism, his byline as a feature writer and cultural essayist/critic has appeared in The Advocate, Entertainment Weekly, Essence, Newsweek, Out, The Source, Vibe, and The Washington Post. He lives in New York City.