Gerard Cabrera

Gerard Cabrera’s fiction has appeared in the literary journals Acentos Review, JONATHAN, Kweli, and Apricity, and his poetry includes the chapbooks Indefeasible Coinage and The Knock-Off Artist. Other writing has appeared in Gay Community News and Gay City News. He has attended the Bread Loaf Writers Conference, The Writers Studio, and has been a Bread Loaf Camargo Foundation Fellow in Cassis, France.

Gerard earned a degree in English and American Literature at Brandeis University, his Masters Degree in Public Health from Hunter College and his law degree from Northeastern University School of Law. He served on the board of Gay Community News, was a member of the theater troupe United Fruit Company, and competed in the 1994 Gay Games.

Over the years, Gerard helped run one of the first safe sex programs for people with mental disabilities, helped found an LGBT Puerto Rican empowerment group, and been active in New York’s LGBT community. Past jobs include working on an Old Spice assembly line, as a convenience store clerk, as a kosher dishwasher, a secretary, a bank teller, as well as in non-profits, universities, and as an attorney representing indigent people in housing court, family court, and probate court. He has also practiced health care and regulatory law, and is currently a court attorney in New York City Family Court. Gerard is a Massarican from Springfield, Massachusetts, the birthplace of Dr. Seuss, basketball, and the first American dictionary. He lives and works in New York City.