Kelly McQuain received his Masters in fiction in 1991. His thesis was titled The Escape Velocity. McQuain's writing has appeared in the anthologies Men on Men 2000, Rebel Yell, Vol. 2, Best American Erotica, Best Gay Erotica, Obsessed and Men In Ink He’s also published fiction in such magazines as the Philadelphia Inquirer Sunday Magazine, Kansas Quarterly/Arkansas Review, The Harrington Gay Men's Fiction Quarterly, The James White Review, and elsewhere. He has had two of his stories staged as part of InterAct Theatre's Writing Aloud performance series, and has twice been a winner in the City Paper's annual writing contest. He has received fellowships from the Pennsylvania Council on the Arts in both Fiction and Creative Nonfiction. He coordinates the annual Spring Poets and Writers Series at the Community College of Philadelphia where he is an Assistant Professor of English and teaches creative writing, literature, and film studies.