Randy Boyd is a five-time Lambda Literary Award finalist whose fiction explores race, sexuality, and survival in the long shadow of the AIDS crisis. His latest novel, The Unfrozen Few, Book One: Welcome to the Future, marks his return to long-form fiction after twenty-one years and launches a multi-book speculative saga about eleven AIDS patients from the 1980s who awaken in the 21st century.
Born and raised in Indianapolis, Indiana, Randy studied at the University of Southern California before transferring to UCLA, where he earned a B.A. in Sociology in 1985. During college, he was a yell leader at USC and a cheerleader at UCLA.
Randy began writing professionally at age twenty through an early career in broadcast network promotion. His novels — Walt Loves the Bearcat, Bridge Across the Ocean, The Devil Inside, and Uprising — have each earned Lambda Literary Award finalist honors.
His fiction has appeared in Blackfire and in the anthologies Certain Voices (Alyson Books); Flesh and the Word 2 (Plume); Sojourner: Black Gay Voices in the Age of AIDS (Other Countries); Flashpoint: Gay Male Sexual Writing (Masquerade Books); MA-KA: Diasporic Juks (Sister Vision); and Freedom in This Village: Black Gay Men’s Writing 1969 to the Present (Carroll & Graf).
His nonfiction has been published in The Washington Blade, The Lambda Book Report, The Gay and Lesbian Review, Friends and Lovers: Gay Men Write About the Families They Create (Dutton), Frontiers, Art and Understanding, The James White Review, Au Courant, The Indiana Word, and Beyond Chron. He has also contributed to Outsports and the publications of the Black AIDS Institute.
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