ABOUT THE AUTHORS

VALERIE ALEXANDER lives in Arizona. Her work has been previously published in Best of Best Women’s Erotica, Best Bondage Erotica and other anthologies.

E. BELLAMY’s stories and poems are published or forthcoming in Ray’s Road Review, Poydras Review, Emerge Literary Journal, Umbrella Factory Magazine and others.

KITTEN BOHEME (kittenboheme.com), besides being an avid reader and writer of erotica, is also a published playwright. When not writing, she pursues her interests in the European aristocracy and the occult. She lives a nomadic lifestyle with Franklin, her cat, and an angry goldfish, Sir Swimsalot.

JILLIAN BOYD (ladylaidbare.com) is the author of numerous erotic short stories and has been published by the likes of Cleis Press, House of Erotica and Constable and Robinson. She lives with her adorable boyfriend in London, where she blogs, bakes and dreams about wild, uninhibited romance while hanging the laundry.

ELIZABETH COLDWELL (elizabethcoldwell.wordpress.com) lives and writes in London. Her stories have appeared in numerous anthologies, including Best Bondage Erotica 2011, 2012, 2013 and 2014.

Born in one country, raised in a second and living in a third, J. CRICHTON is a teacher and translator who uses her jet-setting experiences as inspiration for steamy writing. She is a firm believer in chasing dreams, happy endings and great sex.

KATHLEEN DELANEY-ADAMS is a stone high femme porn author, word performer and the artistic director of BODY HEAT: Femme Porn Tour. Kathleen’s erotic fiction will be featured in several kinky, smutty anthologies set for release in 2014 and 2015, including She Who Must Be Obeyed and The Big Book of Submission: 69 Kinky Tales.

JOCELYN DEX (JocelynDex.com) writes erotic paranormal and contemporary romance. She loves animals, likes beer and it’s rumored she sleeps with a machete beside her bed in case zombies attack in the middle of the night. She believes in hot sex and happily-ever-afters.

LIVIA ELLIS is an American writer living and working in Dublin, Ireland.

ZEE GIOVANNI (sweetjuice.org) is an award-winning writer and professional smutress. With her partner, Damani Starr, she cofounded Sweet Juice Publishing for the erotic liberation of all people, especially kinky people, queer people, trans people, and people of color.

DENA HANKINS (denahankins.net) writes aboard her boat, wherever she has sailed it. After eight years as a sex educator, she started telling erotic tales with far-flung settings—India, North Carolina, deep space—and continued with a queer/trans romance novel, Blue Water Dreams, about magnetism and self-sufficiency.

KATYA HARRIS lives in the UK with her family and three crazy rat boys. You can find her on Twitter @Katya_Harris. She hopes you like what she’s written, and that you’ll come back for more.

OLIVER HOLLANDAIZE is the pseudonym of a frustrated artist who lives and works in San Francisco, CA. He rides his bike to work and owns more than a few sex toys, but has yet to add a Boink Bike to his collection.

MALIN JAMES (malinjames.wordpress.com) is a writer with a book fetish. Her stories have appeared in numerous anthologies including Best Women’s Erotica 2015, Chemical (se)X and The Big Book of Orgasms: 69 Sexy Stories.

CHRIS KOMODO (tinyurl.com/ckomodo) is a California-based artist and writer. He expanded into erotica in 2012 and his work now appears in several erotic anthologies. When he’s not working, the thirtysomething Komodo restores furniture and experiments with growing strange varieties of chili peppers. He tweets @SpicyKomodo.

ERRICA LIEKOS (cumisnotaverb.blogspot.com) finally realized she could write whatever filthy things she wanted so long as she used a pseudonym. Don’t tell her kids. She was most recently published in Violet Blue’s Best Women’s Erotica 2014 anthology.

ADRIANA RAVENLUST turned her nonstop thoughts about sex into a sex toy review and sexuality blog at ofsexandlove.com. Her brand of feminism, geekery and cat-lady craziness has flourished online.

Award-winning erotica writer GISELLE RENARDE is a queer Canadian contributor to more than one hundred short-story anthologies and author of juicy books like Anonymous, Nanny State and My Mistress’ Thighs. Ms. Renarde lives across from a park with two bilingual cats who sleep on her head.

ROB ROSEN (therobrosen.net), award-winning author of the novels Sparkle: The Queerest Book You’ll Ever Love, Divas Las Vegas, Hot Lava, Southern Fried, Queerwolf, Vamp and Queens of the Apocalypse, and editor of the anthologies Lust in Time and Men of the Manor, has had short stories featured in more than 180 anthologies.

SYBIL RUSH (nouveaugrotto.blogspot.com.au) is currently a research scientist and erotica writer. However, she has been—at various times—a striptease artist, a topless dancer, an enlisted soldier and a midwife. Her stories can be found in Valentine’s Day and Shameless Behavior.

CORRINE A. SILVER (Twitter: @CorrineASilver) has been writing stories and fantasies for as long as she can remember, but only recently started trying to get them published. She believes in sex positivity and the incredible allure of enthusiastic consent.

SUSAN ST. AUBIN has been writing erotica for thirty years, sometimes as Jean Casse. Her work appears in Yellow Silk, Libido, Herotica, Best Lesbian Erotica, Best American Erotica, Best Women’s Erotica and other anthologies. Her story collection, A Love Drive-By: Stories of Ambition, Hunger, and Desire, was published in 2011 by Renaissance E Books/Sizzler Editions.

KAMALA ST. DEEDS tells tales of fantasy and science fiction with an erotic twist. She lives in Virginia with her husband, two kids and a curmudgeon of a cat.