David Bergman is the author of Gaiety Transfigured: Gay
Self-representation in American Literature (1991) and The
Violet Hour: The Violet Quill and the Making of Gay Culture
(2004) as well as two books of poetry. He is the winner of the
George Elliston Prize for Poetry and a Lambda Literary Award for
editing men on Men 2000. In addition he was the editor of
John Ashbery's Reported Sighting: Art Chronicle, 1957-1987
(1989). He teaches at Towson University in Baltimore.