Jay B. Laws

Jay B. Laws was a San Francisco playwright and writer. His work has appeared in the New York Native, the Castro Times, Advocate Men, and Torso, and he won the 1986 Actors Alley Repertory grand prize for his play A Night for Colored Glass. In 1993, his second novel, The Unfinished, was published posthumously.

Steam was his first novel. It was nominated as Best Gay Science Fiction, Horror or Fantasy at the 4th Annual Lambda Literary Awards in 1992.