Philip Gambone

Philip Gambone (born in Massachusetts in 1948) is an American writer.

His short-fiction collection The Language We Use Up Here was nominated for a Lambda Literary Award. His short stories have appeared in more than a dozen magazines and anthologies. His essays, reviews and feature articles have appeared in Bay Windows, the Lambda Book Report, the Advocate, Frontiers, and the New York Times Book Review. His essays have been included in the anthologies Hometowns, A Member of the Family, Sister and Brother and Wrestling with the Angel. He now lives in Boston, Massachusetts, teaching a freshman class about classical literature (among other things) at Boston University Academy and the Harvard writing program, where he has received two Distinguished Teaching Awards.

Works

• Beijing: A Novel (2003), University of Wisconsin Press
• Something Inside: Conversations with Gay Fiction Writers (editor) (1999), University of Wisconsin Press
• Pushing Off, in Men on Men 6: Best New Gay Fiction (1996), Plume
• The Language We Use Up Here and Other Stories (1992), Plume
• (essay in) Men on Men 3: Nest New Gay Fiction (1990), Plume
• (essay in) His 3: Brilliant New Fiction by Gay Writers (1999), Plume
• (essay in) Boys Like Us: Gay Writers Tell Their Coming Out Stories, Patrick Merla (ed.) Avon Books. 1996

Reviews

• Beijing
• Something Inside
• Something Inside