Best Lesbian Erotica 2012

by Kathleen Warnock

  LEA DELARIA, the first openly queer comic to perform on television in America, has starred in two Broadway musicals and has five records out on the Warner Jazz label. Lea has an Obie and Theater World award, has twice been honored by the Drama League and her book Lea’s Book of Rules for the World is in its third printing.

  KIKIDELOVELY is a queer femme performer/writer whose work has appeared in Best Lesbian Erotica 2011; Salacious magazine, She’s Gotta Have It: 69 Stories of Sudden Sex; Take Me There: Transgender and Genderqueer Erotica and Say Please: Lesbian BDSM Erotica. Kiki’s passions include artichokes, words, alternative baking and taking on research for her writing.

  JULIA NOEL GOLDMAN is a native New Yorker, a political activist and a graduate of Sarah Lawrence College. Her lesbian erotica has been translated into Russian, French and Spanish, and is available on the Internet. This is her first story to be published in an anthology. Find out more at julianoelgoldman.com.

  ILY GOYANES is a Latina lesbian who lives to learn. When she isn’t writing for the Miami New Times newspaper, she likes to get dirty in her kitchen and in bed. Her fictional debut appeared in Lesbian Cops (Cleis). Visit thesideshow.info and share your most sinful recipe.

  ANNE GRIP lives in New York City with her girlfriend. She is a newly beginning yoga practitioner.

  NANCY IRWIN is an out, queer, S/M activist. She has given sex and S/M workshops locally and internationally, organized events and play parties and published articles in the queer and kinky press. Nancy is a street biker who loves the dirt and a bad dyke who plays well with “others.” A Leather Pride flag marks her Toronto home.

  Editor of Carnal Machines, Spank, The Sweetest Kiss and the Lammy Finalist, Where the Girls Are, find D. L. KING’s stories in Best Lesbian Erotica, Best Women’s Erotica, Girl Crazy and Broadly Bound, among others. She’s published two novels and edits the review site, Erotica Revealed. Find her at dlkingerotica.com.

  LULU LAFRAMBOISE is a fantasy name, so in this fantasy life, Lulu leads dive excursions in Belize and studies the rainbow parrotfish. In real life, Lulu writes serious nonfiction and teaches creative writing at an Ivy League university.

  KIRSTY LOGAN lives in Glasgow, Scotland with her very own rebel girl. She writes in The Rumpus, Filthy Gorgeous Things, Best Lesbian Erotica 2011 and Best Women’s Erotica 2011. She has a semicolon tattooed on her toe. Say hello at kirstylogan.com.

  DANI M (danim251@gmail.com) is a journalist and magazine editor who creates erotica to honor and contribute to the art and expression of lesbian sexuality, in a world that rarely represents us. She gives thanks to the amazing women who have inspired her writing. Dani lives with her special one, H, in London.

  EVAN MORA’s tales of sex, cars and other passions have appeared in many fine publications including: Best Lesbian Erotica ’09, Best Lesbian Romance ’09 and ’10, Where the Girls Are, Girl Crush, Lesbian Cops and Daddy’s Little Girl: Butch/ Femme Erotica. She lives in Toronto.

  ALI OH has a taste for sex, humor and grammar. Aside from her computer equipment, her sex toy box is the object in the house with the highest monetary value. She can be found running around New Jersey with her girlfriend or at madeofwords.com. Because the sexiest stuff is made of words.

  Eroticist GISELLE RENARDE (wix.com/gisellerenarde/erotica) is a queer Canadian, contributor to dozens of short-story anthologies, an avid volunteer and author of numerous electronic and print books. Ms. Renarde lives across from a park with two bilingual cats who sleep on her head.

  TREASURE SAPPHIRE is a former phone sex operator and full-time sex kitten operating out of Fort Lauderdale. She enjoys engaging in unethical acts of depraved debauchery and leaping tall buildings in a single bound. A self-proclaimed “drag hag,” she delights in gender play and has several titillating alter egos. Find her at treasures.pleasure.chest@gmail.com.

  ELENA SHEARIN is a new writer of lesbian erotica though she has been a longtime reader and fan. This is her first publication and she is excited about the opportunity to introduce her writing to other people. She welcomes feedback at elena.shearin@gmail.com.

  SHARON WACHSLER lives in rural New England. Her lesborotica is in dozens of magazines and anthologies, including Best Lesbian Erotica 2003 and 2009, and Best American Erotica 2004 and 2005. The Astraea Foundation has named Sharon an Emerging Lesbian Fiction Writer. Sharon blogs about writing, service-dog training, and disability at aftergadget.wordpress.com.

  ANNA WATSON is a married old-school femme mom. More of her stories are in Sometimes She Lets Me, Girl Crazy, BLE ’07, ’08, ’09, Fantasy: Untrue Stories of Lesbian Passion and Take Me There. She also has an essay about being a femme bookworm in Visible: A Femmethology, Volume One.

  XAN WEST is the pseudonym of an NYC BDSM/sex educator. Xan’s “First Time Since,” won honorable mention for the 2008 NLA John Preston Short Fiction Award. Xan has appeared in many anthologies, including Best SM Erotica 2 and 3, Best Women’s Erotica 2008 and 2009 and Best Lesbian Erotica 2011.

  ABOUT THE EDITORS

  KATHLEEN WARNOCK is a playwright, fiction writer and editor. Her erotica has appeared (under the name Kyle Walker) in Best Lesbian Erotica, A Woman’s Touch, Best Lesbian Romance and Friction 7, among others. Her fiction, essays and reviews have been seen in ROCKRGRL, BUST, Ms., Metal Maidens, It’s Only Rock and Roll, Gargoyle, American Book Review, New Directions for Women and the liner notes for the Joan Jett CD Unfinished Business. Her plays have been produced in New York, the United Kingdom and regionally. Rock the Line (published by United Stages) was produced by Emerging Artists Theatre in New York and won the Robert Chesley Award for Emerging Playwright. Grieving for Genevieve won the John Golden Award for Playwriting. Some Are People won the Arts & Letters Award for Drama. She is curator of the Robert Chesley/ Jane Chambers Playwrights Project for TOSOS Theater, and Playwrights Company Manager for Emerging Artists Theater. She is Ambassador of Love for the International Dublin Gay Theatre Festival and a member of the Dramatists Guild. Find her online at kathleenwarnock.com, Twitter: @kwarnockny.

  SINCLAIR SEXSMITH (mrsexsmith.com) writes the award-winning personal online project Sugarbutch Chronicles : The Sex, Gender, and Relationship Adventures of a Kinky Queer Butch Top at sugarbutch.net, and has works published in various anthologies, including the Best Lesbian Erotica 2011, 2009, 2007 and 2006 collections; Sometimes She Lets Me: Best Butch/ Femme Erotica; Visible: A Femmethology Volume II; Persistence : All Ways Butch and Femme; Take Me There: Transgender and Genderqueer Erotica, and more. She is a regular columnist for AfterEllen.com, LambdaLiterary.org and SexIsMagazine. com and has written for GoodVibes Magazine, GoMagazine. com, and CarnalNation.com. She has released three chapbooks of poetry, one chapbook of smut, and one spoken word CD. Her first erotica anthology, Say Please: Lesbian BDSM Erotica, releases in 2012 from Cleis Press.

  Mr. Sexsmith holds degrees in both gender studies and creative writing, studied and taught at Bent Writing Institute for queers in Seattle, and currently teaches community and academic workshops on gender, sexuality, chivalry, healing, communication, and getting the sex life you want. Monthly in her current home of New York City, she coproduces Sideshow: Queer Literary Carnival reading series. She prefers the pronouns she/her as well as the masculine honorific of “Mr.” In her spare time, she likes to cook, read, swing dance, sip whiskey, and look at the stars.

  Copyright © 2012 by Kathleen Warnock. Introduction copyright © 2012 by Sinclair Sexsmith.

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  Published in the United States by Cleis Press Inc.,

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  eISBN : 978-1-573-44769-0

  “Never Too Old” by DeJay was published in Lesbian Lust: Erotic Stories (Cleis
, 2010); “Rebel Girl” by Kirsty Logan was published in Girl Crush (Cleis, 2010); “My Femme” by Evan Mora was published in Gotta Have it: 69 Stories of Sudden Sex, (Cleis Press, 2011); “Bloodlust” by Giselle Renarde was published at Oysters and Chocolate; “When You Call” by Sharon Wachsler was published in Bed: New Lesbian Erotica (Harrington Park Press).