Gene Gregorits

Justin Gene Gregorits (born November 5, 1976) 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

As a contributing writer

 * Chelsea Hotel Manhattan: A Raw Eulogy To A New York Icon  (2008)
 * Antique Children: A Mischievous Literary Arts Journal (2010)
 * Analysing David Peace (Katy Shaw, editor. Cambridge Scholars Publishing) (2011)

Film work

 * Born To Lose: The Last Rock'n'Roll Movie (Lech Kowalski, 1999) (graphic designer, promotion)
 * Ronni Lee (Ron Athey, 2000) (lead actor)
 * Blank Generation (Celine Dahnier, 2006) (actor)
 * The Sand Trap (Casey Fischer, 2012) (subject)
 * The Second Coming (Richard Wolstencroft, 2014) (lead actor)

In popular culture
In 2013, Gregorits gained some widespread notoriety after he cut part of his own ear off with a razor blade and ate the severed lobe, while filming the event.