Ken Shakin is a writer of cult fiction.

His first books "Love Sucks" and "Real Men Ride Horses" (Gay Men's Press

Gay Men's Press

Gay Men's Press was a publisher of books based in London, United Kingdom. The company published from 1979 until 2006.Launched in 1979, the publisher was a welcome company for gay writers attempting to get published. The book business had been unwelcoming to such writers, publishing only works of...

 1997 and 1999) have been reprinted by Lethe Press. "The Cure For Sodomy" (Haworth Press

Haworth Press

Haworth Press was a publisher of scholarly, academic and trade books, and approximately 200 peer-reviewed academic journals. It was founded in 1978 by the publishing industry executives Bill Cohen and Patrick Mclaughlin. The name was taken from the township of Haworth in England, the home of the...

 2006) has been reprinted by Fanny Press. "Grandma Gets Laid" (The Permanent Press 2008) has been translated into Russian (Centrepolygraf 2009). In 2010 "Thrillerotica" was published by Damnation Books.

Shakin graduated from the Juilliard School

Juilliard School

The Juilliard School, located at the Lincoln Center for the Performing Arts in New York City, United States, is a performing arts conservatory which was established in 1905...

 in 1981 with a degree in piano.

"Shakin's darkly humorous and perverse works have earned him an underground following, largely because he flaunts every standard of decency."
-Contemporary Authors

Contemporary Authors

Contemporary Authors is an annually updated reference work published by Gale Cengage. It provides biographical details on over 120,000 writers in all genres whose works have been published in the English language...

External links

• Review in Publishers Weekly
• LGBT Western fiction writers