Wayne Courtois lives in Kansas City, Missouri, where queer life is thriving. He holds an M.F.A. from the Writing Program of the University of North Carolina—Greensboro. Most recently his work has appeared online in suspect thoughts: a journal of subversive writing and Velvet Mafia, and the anthologies Love Under Foot: An Erotic Celebration of Feet and Of the Flesh: Dangerous New Fiction. His story "Taurus" from Of the Flesh: Dangerous New Fiction earned him the 2002 Best New Voice award from the Erotic Authors Association.

Mapped out on a playing field of ticklish male flesh, My Name Is Rand follows a young man on his search for the ultimate erotic adventure. Betrayed by his own skin into a helplessly eroticized state, he becomes a captive of a bizarre torture camp where men practice extreme tickling. After several near-death experiences he stumbles across a hiding place where several desperate men plot escape while taking physical solace in each other. Sweatily detailed in its depiction of men driven over the edge, this nightmarish novel is a bondage epic, a horror comic, and a totally original speculation on the nature of time and consciousness.