“Tramps Like Us is a modern-day Huckleberry Finn.” - San Francisco Chronicle

Joe Westmoreland’s novel, Tramps Like Us , was first published June 2001, and is available from the University of Wisconsin Press. His column ''Still Kickin'' has been running in POZ since 2002. His fiction has been published in the anthologies Discontents (New Queer Writers), Queer 13: Lesbian and Gay Writers Recall Seventh Grade, as well as in journals and zines including My Comrade, Straight To Hell, Whispering Campaign, and his own joezine. He lives in New York City.

Tramps Like Us is an all-American story about the search for home, for a better life, feeling like a refugee in one's own country. It's about creating a family from a group of misfits. It tells what it was like to come of age in the era between gay liberation and the beginning of the AIDS crisis.

''Joe Westmoreland writes better than we deserve, and his simple sentences are each one a little marvel of sophistication and purity. It’s a travel story and its two heroes, one who's seen everything, the other a perfect beginner, will have readers thinking not only of Jack Kerouac and Route 66 but of Huckleberry Finn itself. In the annals of travel writing, Westmoreland's picture of a bygone, enchanted, troubling San Francisco and indeed the whole U.S.A. will live forever. I kept searching his book for his secret, but like the song says, Little Joe never once gave it away.'' —Kevin Killian