ABOUT THE AUTHORS

JOANNA ANGEL is an award-winning adult film star, director, producer, best-selling author, entrepreneur, and CEO of the venerated adult studio Burning Angel Entertainment. She was inducted into AVN’s Hall of Fame in 2016 and continues to make her mark on the adult industry and the world at large.

LORETTA BLACK is a connoisseur of fine and unusual erotica. She resides in the North of England with a very badly behaved cat and an overflowing trunk of impossible ideas.

Born in Brooklyn and raised in the New South, ALEXA J. DAY (alexajday.com) loves stories with just a touch of the inappropriate and heroines who are anything but innocent. Her literary mission is to stimulate the intellect and libido of her readers. She lives in central Virginia with her cats.

KATHLEEN DELANEY-ADAMS is a queer high femme performer, author, cupcake baker, and rescuer of all living creatures. She resides in Atlanta with her butch husband, several dogs, cats, a possum named Mabel, and a murder of five crows. She has been published in a dozen erotic anthologies.

JUSTINE ELYOT has been writing erotic fiction for over a decade. First published by Black Lace, she has also written best-selling novels and short fiction for HarperCollins Mischief, Xcite, Totally Bound, and many others. Her latest novel, The Story of Jo, explores a BDSM ménage dynamic and was published by Sinful Press in 2018.

EMERALD (TheGreenLightDistrict.org) is an erotic fiction author interested in elevating discussion of and attention to authentic sexual experience. Her first short story collection, If. . . Then, was released in 2014, and her second, Safe, was the bronze winner in the Erotica category of the 2016 Independent Publisher (IPPY) Awards.

LAUREN EMILY (laurenemilywrites.com) writes erotica for Bellesa.co. Her smut has been published in BUST and Between the Covers: A Bookstore Erotica Anthology (Volumes, 2018). Lauren contributes to Playboy and SELF and is the author of the YA novel Satellite (World Castle Publishing, 2017). She hangs in the air and contorts her body weekly.

ANNA MIA HANSEN (AnnaMiaHansen.com) is a writer from Australia. She draws on her mixed heritage—her mother is Japanese and her father is Danish—to craft the fantastic worlds that feature in her fiction. She holds a PhD in Old Norse literature and is working on a steamy space-opera trilogy.

STELLA HARRIS (stellaharris.net) is an author, intimacy educator, and sex coach who teaches everything from pleasure anatomy to communication skills to kink and BDSM. Look for her book, Tongue Tied: Untangling Communication in Sex, Kink, and Relationships, also from Cleis Press.

BALLI KAUR JASWAL’s (ballijaswal.com) latest novel is The Unlikely Adventures of the Shergill Sisters. Her internationally acclaimed novel, Erotic Stories for Punjabi Widows (Harper Collins/ William Morrow), was selected by Reese Witherspoon’s Hello Sunshine Book Club in 2017. Jaswal’s nonfiction has appeared in the New York Times, Harper’s Bazaar India, Conde Nast Traveller India, and Cosmopolitan.com.

QUINN LESTRANGE is a fiction writer with a bachelor’s degree in architecture. She considers herself a chameleon of romantic fiction, crossing boundaries between paranormal, historic, contemporary, and BDSM. She is based in the Los Angeles area, searching for the perfect cup of espresso and her next explorative inspiration.

A. Z. LOUISE is a civil engineer-turned-writer, whose conure keeps them company during the writing process. When not reading or writing, they can be found playing folk harp, knitting, or arguing with their sewing machine.

ANGEL LEIGH McCOY (angelmccoy.com) has been a professional game and fiction writer for over two decades. Her work has appeared in numerous publications—Strange Aeons, Clockwork Chaos, Vile Things, Pseudopod, Fear of the Dark, Beast Within 2 —and includes the novelette Charlie Darwin, or the Trine of 1809 (Nevermet Press).

LEE MINXTON’s erotic writing has appeared in Forum (UK), the Good Vibrations webzine, the Blowfish catalog e-newsletter, and the anthologies Best Gay Erotica of the Year, Volume 3; Big Man on Campus; Surprise; and Naughty Stories From A To Z, Volume 4.

CARIDAD PINEIRO (caridad.com) is a transplanted Long Island girl who has fallen in love with the Jersey Shore. When Caridad isn’t taking long strolls along the boardwalk, she’s also a New York Times and USA Today best-selling author with over a million romance novels sold worldwide.

CD REISS (cdreiss.com) is a New York Times best-selling author, which inflated her ego for about a minute. She promised her husband they’d only move to Los Angeles for three years while she got her master’s degree in screenwriting from USC. A decade later, they’re still there.

JAYNE RENAULT (jaynerenault.co) is a long-winded smutty wordsmith who likes to fill her pages with bisexual babes, scandal and infidelity, smug masturbation, and a little magic. A good metaphor turns her on more than a pretty face ever could, and she is the resident Smut Queen at Bellesa.

ANGORA SHADE (angorashade.blogspot.com) is an American erotic romance author living in Europe. She enjoys creating stories that surprise, amuse, or tease the reader, providing an alternative outlook to the monotony of someone’s usual day.

SIERRA SIMONE (thesierrasimone.com) is a USA Today best-selling former librarian (who spent too much time reading romance novels at the information desk). She lives with her husband and family in Kansas City.

SABRINA SOL (sabrinasol.com) is the chica who loves love. She writes sexy romance stories featuring Latina heroines in search of their Happily Ever Afters. Sabrina and her books have been featured in Entertainment Weekly, PopSugar, and on Book Riot’s list of “100 Must Read Romantic Comedies.”

By day, words by A. ZIMMERMAN are found in ads, instructions in technical manuals, and on menus describing decadent desserts. By night, she lets her words take a decided turn for the erotic, crafting short stories full of adult pleasures that may be found in numerous magazines and anthologies.