Ken Shakin


Ken Shakin is a writer of underground transgressive fiction.
"Love Sucks" was first published in 1997 by Gay Men's Press, a pioneer in LGBT fiction, and "The Cure For Sodomy" in 2006 by Haworth Press. "Grandma Gets Laid" was translated into Russian. Stories from "Real Men Ride Horses" appear in the anthologies "All Boys Together" and "Latter Gay Saints".
Shakin graduated from the Juilliard School in 1981 with a degree in piano. His vocal compositions have been performed in a variety of venues. The Wandering, an opera based on James Joyce's Ulysses, was first presented by the Irish Embassy in Berlin for Bloomsday 2017. In 2018 the opera was staged at the Ehemaliges Stummfilmkino Delphi, with art direction by Tim Roeloffs.

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