N. A. Diaman

N. A. Diaman was born 1 November 1936 in San Francisco. He received a BA in 1958 from the University of Southern California with a major in humanities.

He returned to San Francisco after graduation and was introduced to the local poetry scene by George Stanley. Diaman became part of the Jack Spicer circle in North Beach and joined Robert Duncan's poetry workshop at the San Francisco Public Library.

In New York during the early 1970s, he was active in the Gay Liberation Front and the Gay Revolution Party. He wrote for Zygote magazine and Come Out! before co-founding Queer Blue Light, an independent video production group.

After moving back to San Francisco in the fall of 1972, he was the executive director of the Antares Foundation, which sponsored the San Francisco Gay Video Festival and published Paragraph: A Quarterly of Gay Fiction.

Ed Dean Is Queer, his first novel, was published 1978 by Persona Press, San Francisco.

Subsequent novels include: The Fourth Wall (1980), Second Crossing (1982), Reunion (1983), Castro Street Memories (1988), Private Nation (1997), and The City (2007).

Following My Heart, a memoir, was published in 2007 followed by two travel memoirs: Paris Dreams (2009) and Athens Apartment (2009).

He launched a new career as a photo-based artist in 2000. His work is in private and corporate collections in Paris, San Francisco, San Miguel de Allende, and Santa Fe.

In the fall of 2015 Persona Press will issue ebook editions of its titles.

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