Gene Gregorits is an American writer, editor, and publisher. He founded and published
Sex & Guts Magazine, an independent arts and culture journal, that ran from 1997 to 2004. Subsequent works include
Johnny Behind The Deuce,
Sex & Guts Anthology,
Sex & Guts 4,
Midnight Mavericks,
Dog Days: Volume One,
Dog Days: Volume Two,
Hatchet Job: The Gene Gregorits Reader, and
Fishhook. Gregorits' most recent works have been described as having running themes of poverty, sexual deviance, trauma, mental illness, violence, multi-substance abuse and death. He has said that early influences on his writing included
Charles Bukowski and
Louis-Ferdinand Céline