Lawrence Schimel writes in both Spanish and English and has published over 100 books as author or anthologist, including the poetry collections Desayuno en la cama (Egales Editorial, 2008) and FAIRY TALES FOR WRITERS (A Midsummer Night's Press, 2007). His poems have appeared in diverse periodicals, ranging from The Christian Science Monitor to Physics Today to Gay Scotland , and have been widely anthologized, including in Gay Love Poetry , Neil Gaiman's The Sandman: The Book of Dreams , Chicken Soup for the Horse-Lover's Soul 2 , and The Random House Treasury of Light Verse . He has won the Lambda Literary Award (twice), the Spectrum Award, and the Independent Publisher Book Award, among other honors. He divides his time between Madrid and New York City.