As a full-time author, anthologist, and translator writing in both English and Spanish, Lawrence Schimel has published over 90 books in a wide range of genres, including the short story collections The Drag Queen of Elfland (Circlet), His Tongue (North Atlantic), and Two Boys in Love (Seventh Window); the graphic novel Vacation in Ibiza (NBM); the poetry collection Fairy Tales for Writers (A Midsummer Night's Press); and numerous children's books.

He has also edited many anthologies, including: The Future is Queer (Arsenal Pulp Press), Things Invisible to See: Lesbian and Gay Tales of Magic Realism (Circlet), First Person Queer (Arsenal Pulp Press), The Mammoth Book of New Gay Erotica (Carroll & Graf), PoMoSexuals: Challenging Assumptions About Gender and Sexuality (Cleis), Switch Hitters: Lesbians Write Gay Male Erotica and Gay Men Write Lesbian Erotica (Cleis), Kosher Meat (Sherman Asher), Tarot Fantastic (DAW), and Camelot Fantastic (DAW). His work has won the Spectrum Award, the Lambda Literary Award, and The Rhysling Award, among other prizes.

His shorter writings have been published in a diverse range of periodicals, such as the Christian Science Monitor, the Saturday Evening Post, Physics Today, Asimov's Science Fiction Magazine, and The Lyric, and have been widely anthologized in The Random House Book of Science Fiction Stories, The Sandman: Book of Dreams, Chicken Soup for the Horse-Lover's Soul 2, and The Random House Treasury of Light Verse, among others.

He has lived in Madrid, Spain since 1999.

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