About Randy Boyd

Randy Boyd was born and raised in Indianapolis, Indiana, and graduated from UCLA in 1985 with a B.A. in Sociology. He has been writing professionally since age twenty and his four novels have been nominated for five Lambda Literary Awards.

His writings cover a range of diverse subjects, including sports, politics, race, the gay community, HIV/AIDS, his dog, President Obama, and Trikke carving vehicles.

An avid Trikke rider, Randy was a co-founder and editor-in-chief of TrikkeWorld Magazine, an online magazine published from 2011-2013.

His fiction has appeared in Blackfire magazine, as well as the following anthologies: Certain Voices (Alyson Books); Flesh and the Word 2 (Plume); Sojourner: Black Gay Voices in the Age of AIDS (Other Countries); Flashpoint: Gay Male Sexual Writing (Masquerade Books), MA-KA: Diasporic Juks (Sister Vision); and Freedom in this Village: Black Gay Men's Writing 1969 to the Present (Carroll & Graf).

His nonfiction has been featured in the Indiana Word, Frontiers, Au Courant, The Washington Blade, The James White Review, The Gay and Lesbian Review, The Lambda Book Report, BeyondChron.com and the anthology Friends and Lovers: Gay Men Write About the Families They Create (Dutton).

Randy is also a contributor to Outsports.com and the publications of the Black AIDS Institute.