Gilbert W. Cole

Gilbert W. Cole, who publishes also as Gil Cole, trained at The Juilliard School and worked as an actor for 9 years. He appeared in many classic plays in in New York and in regional theaters across the country. He appeared on Broadway in " A Meeting by the River" by Christopher Isherwood and Don Bachardy, and will never forget evenings after performances during the out of town tryouts spent with Isherwood and the company hearing stories of Hollywood in the 40's.

Once he made the decision to become a psychoanalyst, Cole went back to school to acquire the credential that would enable him to begin the long process of psychoanalytic training. He has taught as a guest lecturer at the Union Theological Seminary and a guest instructor at the Oregon Psychoanalytic Institute, and at several psychoanalytic training institutes in New York City. He has been a contributing editor for Studies in Gender and Sexuality. Articles of his have been published in Psychoanalytic Quarterly, Psychoanalytic Inquiry, Studies in Gender and Sexuality, Psychoanalytic Dialogues, and Contemporary Psychoanalysis. His book, Infecting the Treatment: Being an HIV Positive Analyst (Analytic Press, 2002) was nominated for the Gradiva Award, presented by the National Association for the Advancement of Psychoanalysis. He is in private practice in New York City.

He began writing fiction following the death of his partner in 2005. His first novel, "Fortune's Bastard, or Love's Pains Recounted" was released by Chelsea Station Editions in March 2013.