Cantin Whitehead

At 58, Cantin A. Whitehead writes with the kind of clarity, grit, and tenderness that only comes from having lived it. Proudly bisexual and unapologetically candid, his stories straddle the in-between—those shadowy, electric spaces where desire, identity, shame, and survival collide. His erotic fiction doesn’t merely titillate; it testifies.

Cantin’s work is deeply autobiographical. He draws from decades of experience in spaces often left out of the cultural conversation—bisexual nightlife, queer love in conservative towns, moments of forbidden intimacy, and the aching complexity of being both seen and invisible. He has “played” his way through cities and continents, existing in that tenuous cultural margin: fetishized by straight culture, scrutinized by gay circles, but always unshakably there. His stories don’t imagine what might happen—they remember what did.

“My characters feel real because they are,” Cantin says. “I’ve been with them. I’ve wept with them. I’ve loved them. Sometimes I was them.”

Whitehead is also fascinated by existing stories, plays and novels, imagining them rewritten as erotic work. He writes like someone who knows what it costs to stay silent—and what it takes to turn pain into art. His work is sensual, grounded, and unwaveringly human. In every page, you can feel his mission: to hold space for the unspeakable, the beautiful, the tragic, and the real.

For more information about Cantin: www..whiteswallowbooks.com

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