Gerry Gomez Pearlberg is the author of Marianne Faithfull's Cigarette, which received a Lambda Literary Award and was a Firecracker Book Award finalist. She has also edited three poetry anthologies, the most recent of which is Queer Dog: Homo/Pup/Poetry, winner of the 1998 Firecracker Book Award for Poetry, Pearlberg teaches creative writing at the AIDS Service Center NYC and is the poetry editor at Bark: The Modern Dog Culture Magazine. A native New Yorker, she lives in Brooklyn.