User:Brent Calderwood

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San Francisco Bay Area native Brent Calderwood is best known for his writing, editing and journalism; he began his career in 1992 as a gay youth activist, cartoonist/illustrator, and editor of the LGBT youth magazine insideOUT.

In 1993, while he was still a senior at Livermore High School, Calderwood wrote and illustrated a two-page cartoon of his coming-out story, "Memoirs from a Closet," at the request of Pacific News Service with editorial advice from author/PBS pundit Richard Rodriguez. The piece, which appeared in the Oakland Tribune and the San Francisco Independent as part of the teen magazine Youth Outlook! (YO!), received accolades from GLAAD and is still used as an educational tool in classrooms.

Calderwood's illustrations have also appeared in the immigrant youth anthology Through Our Eyes. In 1994, Calderwood designed the poster for a queer youth employment campaign sponsored by the San Francisco Unified School District and by Community United Against Violence. Calderwood was profiled in the 1995 book Joining the Tribe: Growing Up Gay and Lesbian in the '90s, and in 1996 he was named one of OUT magazine's annual "OUT 100."

Calderwood has worked as an editor for the East Bay Express, as well as Out There, Passport and QSF magazines. His writing has appeared in the Arizona Star, the Durham/Chappel Hill Herald, the Bay Area Reporter, New Designs for Youth Development, xy, the queer literary magazine modern words, and elsewhere. He currently works for the Princeton Review.

He also plays guitar, writes songs, and occasionally performs in public.

Calderwood holds a BA in Creative Writing from San Francisco State University and a certificate in Human Sexuality studies from the University of Amsterdam. He currently lives in New York City, where he is enrolled in a PhD program in English Literature at the City University of New York Graduate Center.