Best Women's Erotica 2011
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RACHEL KRAMER BUSSEL (rachelkramerbussel.com) is an author, editor, blogger and In the Flesh Reading Series host. Her books include the novel Everything But and the nonfiction work The Art of the Erotic Love Letter. She’s edited over thirty erotica anthologies, including Passion; Fast Girls; Spanked; Peep Show; Please, Sir and Please, Ma’am.
LANA FOX is a writing instructor and assistant magazine editor. Her erotic stories have appeared, or are forthcoming, in Clean Sheets and anthologies published by Xcite Books, Harlequin Spice and Cleis Press. She also publishes literary and fantasy fiction under a different name. Find Lana online at: lanafox.com.
CYNTHIA HAMILTON is the pen name of a bisexual woman living in San Francisco. By day, she edits fiction professionally. After hours, she likes to let her own imagination off the leash.
LOUISA HARTE’s (louisaharte.com) erotic fiction appears in the Cleis Press anthologies Best Women’s Erotica 2010 and Fairy Tale Lust. Currently living in New Zealand, she finds inspiration from many places, including her thoughts, dreams and fantasies.
LOUISE LAGRIS lives in New York City and likes it very much most of the time.
KIRSTY LOGAN (kirstylogan.com) has only been to Skye once, but now dreams of islands. She writes, edits, teaches and reviews books in Glasgow, Scotland. Her first erotic short story is published in Girl Crush, and her nonfiction sex writing appears at The Rumpus and Clean Sheets. She has a semicolon tattooed on her toe.
Author of hundreds of short dirty stories, SOMMER MARSDEN (SmutGirl.blogspot.com) has appeared in dozens of anthologies, and she is the author of numerous novels including the upcoming Calendar Girl. Sommer recently edited some stellar authors in Dirtyville and Kinkyville for her own so small it’s nearly invisible press, Spastic Girl Press.
VELVET MOORE (VelvetMoore.com) is a twentysomething who began writing erotica-style works during adolescence and officially entered the world of erotic fiction several years ago. She has been published on the Web at sites including CleanSheets. com and TheEroticWoman.com, and ForTheGirls.com. She currently resides in Ohio.
LOLA OLSON is a soon to be grad student grateful for sex positivity as it’s made a positive influence in her life. She has gone from hating her body and fearing sexuality to embracing it and using it positively.
GISELLE RENARDE is the author of over a dozen books and a short story contributor to more than twenty. For more information on Giselle Renarde and her work, visit her website at freewebs.com/gisellerenarde.
DONNA GEORGE STOREY (DonnaGeorgeStorey.com) is the author of Amorous Woman, a very steamy tale of an American woman’s love affair with Japan. Her erotic fiction has been published in numerous anthologies including Best Women’s Erotica, Best American Erotica and X: The Erotic Treasury.
CECILIA TAN (blog.ceciliatan.com) is the author of many, many books and erotic short stories, including White Flames, Black Feathers, Mind Games, Edge Plays and Telepaths Don’t Need Safewords. Her erotic stories have appeared in such far-flung and disparate places as Ms. magazine, Asimov’s Science Fiction Magazine, Best American Erotica, Nerve, and Penthouse. She is the founder and editorial director of Circlet Press.
AMELIA THORNTON is a very good girl with very bad thoughts who lives by the English seaside with her collection of school canes, a lot of vintage lingerie, and too many shoes. She enjoys baking, hard spankings and writing beautiful naughtiness.
ALYSSA TURNER’s writings address a woman’s desire to really have it all—including the things she’s not supposed to want. New to the erotica scene, Alyssa has enjoyed a career in art and design, and enjoys painting pictures with a creative use of metaphor and detailed visual imagery. She lives in New York with her husband and son.
ALISON TYLER in an insomniac pornographer who has spent the past two decades writing dirty stories and naughty novels, editing erotic anthologies, and drinking massive amounts of caffeine. Her latest antho is Alison’s Wonderland. She serves coffee and snark 24/7 at alisontyler.blogspot.com.
ABOUT THE EDITOR
VIOLET BLUE (tinynibbles.com, @violetblue) is a Forbes “Web Celeb” and one of Wired’s “Faces of Innovation”—in addition to being a blogger, high-profile tech personality and infamous podcaster. Violet also has many award-winning, best-selling books; an excerpt from her Smart Girl’s Guide to Porn is featured on Oprah Winfrey’s website. She is regarded as the foremost expert in the field of sex and technology, a sex-positive pundit in mainstream media (CNN, The Oprah Winfrey Show, The Tyra Banks Show) and is regularly interviewed, quoted and featured prominently by major media outlets. A published feature writer and columnist since 1998, she also writes for media outlets such as MacLife, O: The Oprah Magazine and the UN-sponsored international health organization RH Reality Check. She was the notorious sex columnist for the San Francisco Chronicle with her weekly column “Open Source Sex.” She headlines at conferences ranging from ETech, LeWeb and SXSW: Interactive, to Google Tech Talks at Google, Inc. The London Times named Blue “one of the 40 bloggers who really count.”
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