Gregory Kellso

At 63, Steven Kellso writes from a place of profound experience, radical honesty, and unapologetic desire. A literary provocateur, Kellso has spent decades exploring the edges of gay erotic fiction, where fantasy is not an escape but a reclamation. His stories are raw, charged, and defiantly imaginative—unbound by shame, convention, or respectability politics.

“I’m fascinated by men,” Kellso says, “in every shape, form, age, and profession. What their hands do. How they sit. What they hide. What they don’t even know they want.”

Having come of age during the height of the AIDS crisis, Kellso understands the lifeline fantasy once offered when queer bodies were politicized, feared, and dying. For him, sex was never just sex—it was survival, defiance, and sacred transgression. That history hums in his prose, which refuses sanitization. His characters—cops and cashiers, teenagers and retirees, truckers and teachers—exist in a world where desire isn’t explained or apologized for; it’s indulged.

His work is a refuge for readers hungry for unfiltered exploration. Whether the scenes are gentle or depraved, loving or illicit, his guiding principle is simple: fantasy belongs to the one who dreams it. There is no guilt in his pages. No tidy morals. No shame. Only the invitation to go there—wherever that is.

And as for whether readers would ever want their fantasies to come true? “Of course not,” he laughs. “Because then the characters would talk on their own—and that would ruin everything.”

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