Neil S. Plakcy is an American writer whose works range from mystery to romance to anthologies and collections of gay erotica.
[1] Plakcy studied creative writing at the University of Pennsylvania with Philip Roth and Carlos Fuentes.
His instructors were Lynne Barrett, James W. Hall and Les Standiford, and his classmates included Vicki Hendricks, Christine Kling, Dennis Lehane and Barbara Parker.
His thesis was a comic novel about Jewish family relationships and shopping mall construction, Invasion of the Blatnicks.
[citation needed] With the publication of GayLife.com in 2009, Plakcy entered the M/M romance genre, basing the book on his own experiences in software and web development and his familiarity with Miami Beach.