Until My Heart Stops

Until My Heart Stops assembles more than fifty works of nonfiction written by the author over four decades, including many published during the height of the AIDS epidemic. The result is a searing personal and poignant memoir of an artist finding his voice during difficult times. Once again Currier doesn't shy away from revealing personal moments and emotions, this time his own, including his love and retreat from the theater, his grappling with boyfriends and long-term relationships, and the details into his own medical diagnosis of HCM—hypertrophic cardiomyopathy, a condition of excessive thickening of the heart muscle for which there is no apparent cause or cure.

Jameson Currier is the author of seven novels: Where the Rainbow Ends; The Wolf at the Door; The Third Buddha; What Comes Around; The Forever Marathon, A Gathering Storm, and Based on a True Story; five collections of short fiction: Dancing on the Moon; Desire, Lust, Passion, Sex; Still Dancing: New and Selected Stories; The Haunted Heart and Other Tales; and Why Didn't Someone Warn You About Prince Charming?; and a memoir: Until My Heart Stops. His short fiction has appeared in many literary magazines and websites, including Velvet Mafia, Confrontation, Christopher Street, Genre, Harrington Gay Men's Fiction Quarterly, and the anthologies Men on Men 5, Best American Gay Fiction 3, Certain Voices, Boyfriends from Hell, Men Seeking Men, Best Gay Romance, Best Gay Stories, Wilde Stories, Unspeakable Horror, Art from Art, and Making Literature Matter. His AIDS-themed short stories have also been translated into French by Anne-Laure Hubert and published as Les Fantômes, and he is the author of the documentary film, Living Proof: HIV and the Pursuit of Happiness. His reviews, essays, interviews, and articles on AIDS and gay culture have been published in many national and local publications, including The Washington Post, The Los Angeles Times, Newsday, Lambda Book Report, The Gay and Lesbian Review, The Washington Blade, Bay Area Reporter, Frontiers, The New York Native, The New York Blade, Out, and Body Positive. In 2010 he founded Chelsea Station Editions, an independent press devoted to gay literature, and the following year launched the literary magazine Chelsea Station, which has published the works of more than two hundred writers. The press also serves as the home for Mr. Currier's own writings which now span a career of more than four decades. Books published by the press have been honored by the Lambda Literary Foundation, the American Library Association GLBTRT Roundtable, the Publishing Triangle, the Saints and Sinners Literary Festival, the Gaylactic Spectrum Awards Foundation, and the Rainbow Book Awards. A self-taught artist, illustrator, and graphic designer, his design work is often tagged as "Peachboy." Mr. Currier has been a member of the Board of Directors of the Arch and Bruce Brown Foundation, a recipient of a fellowship from New York Foundation for the Arts, and a judge for many literary competitions. He currently divides his time between a studio apartment in New York City and a farmless farmhouse in the Hudson Valley.