Polly’s humour has been published in The New Yorker, The Atlantic, The New York Times, Scene4, Identity Theory, Exquisite Corpse, Art Design Cafe and Narrative Magazine. Her humour has frequently been anthologized, including The New Yorker Best of collections Fierce Pajamas and Disquiet, Please, and the upcoming Ecco Anthology of Contemporary Humor edited by Ian Frazier.
She is married to Ray Sawhill and they are frequent creative collaborators. They co-wrote, directed and produced Sex Scenes, a comic and erotic theatre project which was performed regularly at the Cornelia Street Cafe. In 2007, they performed Sex Scenes in nine cities across the country, then recorded it, using the voices of thirty-three top NYC actors. It’s available as a download and CD from http://rapturehouse.com. Together with Matt Lambert, Polly and Ray co-created the sci-fi burlesque web series The Fold, which was compared to early Pedro Almodovar by film critic David Chute.
Polly and Ray co-wrote the play The Last Artist in New York City which was performed in May 2009 at PS122 as part of Theatre Askew’s Avant Garde Arama. The Last Artist in New York City was selected for Best American Short Plays 2008-2009 published by Applause.
Jeremy Edwards is the author of the eroto-comedic novel Rock My Socks Off (Xcite Books). His short stories have appeared in over forty anthologies offered by Xcite, Cleis Press, and other publishers, including three volumes in the Mammoth Book of Best New Erotica series; and his libidinous literary efforts are also well represented at quality online magazines such as Clean Sheets, Fishnet, Good Vibrations, Oysters & Chocolate, and The Erotic Woman.
As a guest on the Web circuit, Jeremy has been seen or heard at Erotica Readers & Writers Association, Lust Bites, LoveHoney, Dr. Dick’s Sex Advice, and Cult of Gracie Radio. In the non-virtual world, he has read his work at the In the Flesh series in New York, the Erotic Literary Salon in Philadelphia, and (via telephone) In the Flesh: L.A. He has been featured in the literary showcase of the Seattle Erotic Art Festival and is a frequent contributor to Scarlet and Forum (UK) magazines.
Jeremy’s greatest goal in life is to be sexy and witty at the same moment – ideally in lighting that flatters his profile. Readers can drop in on him unannounced (and thereby catch him in his underwear) at www.jeremyedwardserotica.com .
Tsaurah Litzky writes erotica because she believes in the ardent ascent of astonishment and getting it up one more time. She hopes her erotic writing contributes to taking sex off the leash and many, many simultaneous orgasms. Her erotic stories have appeared in over eighty publications including Best American Erotica (eight times), two volumes of Mammoth Book Of Best New Erotica, Bitten, X-The Erotic Treasury, Sex for America, Penthouse, The Urban Bizarre, Politically Inspired, Blacklisted Journalist and Dirty Girls. Tsaurah’s erotic novella, The Motion Of The Ocean, was published as part of Three The Hard Way, a series of erotic novellas edited by Susie Bright. Tsaurah has taught erotic writing at the New School and erotic poetry as the Bowery Poetry Club, both in Manhattan. She has just compiled a collection of her erotic short stories titled End Of The World Sex. From the windows of Tsaurah’s apartment on the Brooklyn waterfront she can see the Statue of Liberty, icon of free women everywhere.
Shanna Germain lived in New York until she was twenty-two, but doesn’t have an accent. Now, she spends her summers on a wild isle off the coast of Scotland, where she walks in the rain, laments the lack of coffee shops and wonders why she doesn’t own wellies and a kilt.
Shanna (pronounced like ‘Shaun’ with a sigh of pleasure at the end) also claims the titles of (in no particular order): girl geek, lust/slut, wanderlust-er, avid walker and biker, tree kisser, knife licker, steak-maker, book-nerd and She Who Fears Spiders Ticks. Her work has appeared in places like Absinthe Literary Review, Best American Erotica, Best Gay Romance, Best Lesbian Erotica, Blood Fruit: Queer Horror, Hint Fiction, and more. Travel to her world at http://yearofthebooks.wordpress.com/
Thom Gautier lives in New York City, where he was born. His fiction has won him fellowship awards from The National Endowment for the Arts and The Bronx Council on the Arts, and his stories have appeared in print and online magazines in the UK and USA. He is also a widely published poet and translator whose work has appeared in Modern Painters, Circumference, Shenandoah and Denver Quarterly, among many other publications. His erotic short stories have appeared in Clean Sheets, Lucrezia Magazine, Oysters & Chocolate and Sliptongue. His story The Bet appears in Mammoth Book of Best New Erotica Vol 9. You can visit him online at http://thomgautier.blogspot.com/
D. L. King is a New Yorker with a passion for roasted chestnuts sold on the street and a penchant for writing smut. She lives somewhere between the Wonder Wheel at Coney Island and the Chrysler Building.
The editor of The Sweetest Kiss: Ravishing Vampire Erotica and Where the Girls Are: Urban Lesbian Erotica, both from Cleis Press, she is also the publisher and editor of the book review site, Erotica Revealed. Her short stories can be found in anthologies such as The Mammoth Book of Best New Erotica, Volumes 8 and 9, Best Women’s Erotica 09, Best Lesbian Erotica 08 and 10, Please, Ma’am, Girl Crazy, Broadly Bound, Swing!, Frenzy, Yes, Sir and Yes, Ma’am among others. She is the author of two novels of female domination and male submission, The Melinoe Project and The Art of Melinoe. Find out more about D. L. King on her website, dlkingerotica.com.
Michael Hemmingson wrote the independent film, The Watermelon, and has a few other movies in the works, including the film version of his 2002 novel, The Dress, which was also published in truncated form in Maxim Jakubowski’s 1998 groundbreaking The Mammoth Book of New Erotica. Recent books include a collection, Sexy Strumpets and Troublesome Trollops (Wildside Press) and a crime noir, The Trouble with Tramps (Black Mask Books).
Ten years ago Lisabet Sarai experienced a serendipitous fusion of her love of writing and her fascination with sex. Since then she has published six erotic novels including the BDSM classic Raw Silk and two collections of short stories, Fire and Rough Caress. Her shorter works have appeared in more than two dozen print and ebook anthologies edited by erotica luminaries such as Rachel Kramer Bussel, Alison Tyler, M. Christian, and Maxim Jakubowski, including four straight volumes of The Mammoth Book Of Best New Erotica.
As an editor, Lisabet is responsible for the anthology Sacred Exchange (with S.F. Mayfair) and well as the acclaimed Cream: The Best Of The Erotica Readers & Writers Association. She also edits the single-author branch of the Coming Together altruistic erotica imprint, and will be bringing out volumes by three top erotica writers in the first half of 2010.
Lisabet holds more degrees than anyone would consider reasonable, from prestigious universities who would most likely be embarrassed by her literary endeavours. Although she grew up in New England, Lisabet loves to travel, and many of her tales are set in foreign locales. She currently resides in Southeast Asia with her long-suffering husband and spoiled felines. For more information on Lisabet and her writing visit Lisabet Sarai’s Fantasy Factory
http://www.lisabetsarai.com
or her Beyond Romance blog
http://lisabetsarai.blogspot.com
Thomas S. Roche’s several hundred published short stories include work in the fields of horror, crime fiction, science fiction, and fantasy, but he is best known for his erotic short stories and for his sex-related nonfiction. His work has appeared multiple times in both Susie Bright’s Best American Erotica series and Maxim Jakubowski’s Best New Erotica series. Roche’s own published book projects have included three volumes of the Noirotica anthology series (which blended erotica and queer fiction with hardboiled crime-noir), Sons of Darkness and Brothers of the Night (two volumes of queer-themed horror stories), In the Shadow of the Gargoyle and Graven Images (two mainstream horror-fantasy anthologies), and Dark Matter, a collection of his early short stories. He collaborated with Alison Tyler on His and Hers, two books of short stories intended for couples. A longtime spoken word performer at underground, queer and sex-positive
events in San Francisco, Roche has performed more than 100 of his stories before audiences. He can be found at http://www.thomasroche.com.
Cara Bruce is the editor of Viscera, Best Bisexual Women’s Erotica and Best Fetish Erotica. She is the co-author, with Lisa Montanarelli, of The First Year-Hepatitis C, and the co-author of Horny? San Francisco. Her short fiction has appeared in many anthologies including Pills, Thrills, Chills & Heartbreak, Public House, Best American Erotica 2001, Best Women’s Erotica 2000-2004, Best of Best Women’s Erotica, Necrologue, Mammoth Book of Best New Erotica 1 & 2, The Unmade Bed, The Oy of Sex, Uniform Sex, Of the Flesh, Starfucker, Best Bondage Erotica and many more. She has written for The San Francisco Bay Guardian, While You Were Sleeping, GettingIt.com, Playgirl, On Our Backs, Girlfriends, Salon.com, Young Money magazine, the McClathy-Tribune, and more.
She is currently co-teaching online writing workshops with author Shawna Kenney. They are co-editing a series of anthologies: Robot Hearts: Twisted and True Tales of Seeking Love in the Digital Age, Tarnished: True Tales of Innocence Lost, Caught: True and Twisted Crime Stories, and Grounded: True Stories about Nature.
Ira Miller’s first novel, Seesaw, was published in the U.S. in hardcover by St. Martin’s Press and in paperback by Bantam. It went through four printings in paperback and sold over 132,000 copies. There was also a German and Spanish edition, and a book club sale. His second novel, Whipped, was published by Xlibris. It was also published in German by Wilhelm Heyne verlag, a division of Random House. Both the first and second novels remain on sale today in Germany under the titles Die Gelehrige Schulerin and Die Herrin, respectively.
Mr Miller was also a screenwriting fellow at the American Film Institute, where he had two short films produced. He has taught screenwriting at Hofstra University and creative writing at Fairleigh Dickinson University. He has had numerous magazine articles published and short story called Writerhampton appeared in the 1998 book anthology Hampton Shorts. Cell is part of the current collection of erotic short stories he is preparing for publication called Sex and Love.
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