Gordon, John R.: - John R Gordon lives and works in London, England. He is a screenwriter, playwright and the author of eight novels, Black Butterflies, (GMP 1993), for which he won a New London Writers' Award; Skin Deep, (GMP 1997); and Warriors & Outlaws (GMP 2001), both of which have been taught on graduate and post-graduate courses on Race & Sexuality in Literature in the USA; Faggamuffin (Team Angelica 2012); Colour Scheme (Team Angelica 2013); Souljah (Team Angelica 2015); and his historical epic of same-sex love in slavery times, Drapetomania (Team Angelica 2018) won the prestigious Ferro-Grumley Award for Best LGBTQ Fiction. As well as mentoring, dramaturging and encouraging young LGBTQ+ and racially-diverse writers, John paints, cartoons and does film and theatre design.