JACQUELINE APPLEBEE (writing-in-shadows.co.uk) is a British writer who breaks down barriers with smut. Her stories have appeared in publications including Best Women’s Erotica, Best Lesbian Erotica, Penthouse and DIVA magazine. Jacqueline hopes to write a best-selling novel so she can live in a lighthouse with a few adoring fans.
PRESTON AVERY (PrestonAvery.com) resides merrily by the sea, working and living with only slightly less than reckless abandon. She loves reading almost as much as writing and is featured in the anthologies The Big Book of Orgasm, Geek Love and Morning, Noon, and Night.
ERZABET BISHOP has had a love affair with books since she first started reading. Just recently, she discovered that writing naughty stories was even more fun. She lives with her husband, a menagerie of dogs and a mountain of books she is sure will crush her one day in her sleep.
LOUISE BLAYDON writes erotic romance of various kinds from the house she shares in Oxfordshire, England, with three cats and a lot of fortifying coffee.
HARPER BLISS writes lesbian erotica. She’s had short stories published in anthologies by Xcite Books, House of Erotica and Storm Moon Press. She is the author of the High Rise series and several other novelettes and novellas for Ladylit.
RACHEL KRAMER BUSSEL (rachelkramerbussel.com) has edited over forty anthologies, including Only You: Erotic Romance for Women, Orgasmic, Fast Girls, Women in Lust, Gotta Have It, The Mile High Club, and the Best Bondage Erotica and Best Sex Writing series. She writes widely about sex, dating, food, books and pop culture.
HEIDI CHAMPA (heidichampa.blogspot.com) has been published in numerous anthologies including Best Women’s Erotica 2010, Irresistible, Best Erotic Romance 2012 & 2013 and Sweet Confessions. She has also steamed up the pages of Bust magazine.
KYOKO CHURCH’s short stories have been published in anthologies by Black Lace, Rubicund Publishing and Xcite Books. Book One, Nymphomania, and Book Two, Sapphic Secrets, in her Draper Estate Trilogy were published by Xcite in 2012. For Her Pleasure was published by HarperCollins Mischief in February 2013.
MONICA CORWIN (monicacorwin.com) is a military analyst turned romance and erotica author. In addition to numerous works across various publishers Monica is the founder of The Bibliophilic Book Blog and a former columnist for Night Owl Magazine.
When MADISON EINHART isn’t writing, she’s either covered in acrylic paint or falling in love (again) with her piano keys. Writing has been her longtime love affair—after coming to her senses, she’s decided it’s time to share that love with the world.
BEATRIX ELLROY is an ex-librarian book hound with a love of words, the dirtier the better. A newcomer to erotica, her previous work has included everything from articles about computer games to literary fiction, but filthy fiction is her passion and her weakness.
BLAIR EROTICA is a traveling writer who focuses on the erotic and passionate. Blair has published stories online in Freeflash-fiction.com and Bare Back Magazine, a novella with House of Erotica and has had several short pieces included in anthologies that explore the driving forces that make us human and interesting.
SHOSHANNA EVERS (ShoshannaEvers.com) has over two dozen novels and stories published, including the Enslaved Trilogy from Simon & Schuster’s Pocket Star, and the best-selling erotica Dominatrix Fantasy Trilogy. Shoshanna also hit #1 on the Authorship, Erotica Writing, and Romance Writing Amazon Bestseller lists. Forthcoming is the postapocalyptic Pulse Trilogy.
LUCY FELTHOUSE (lucyfelthouse.co.uk) writes erotica and erotic romance in a variety of subgenres and pairings, and has over seventy publications to her name, with many more in the pipeline. These include stories in Best Bondage Erotica 2012 and 2013, and Best Women’s Erotica 2013.
Erotic writer TAMSIN FLOWERS (tamsinflowers.com) is as keen to entertain her readers as she is to explore every aspect of female (and male) erotica. Her short stories can be found in anthologies from Xcite Books, House of Erotica and Cleis Press and she is currently working on a number of novels and novellas.
TILLY HUNTER is a British author and newspaper journalist with a wicked imagination and a fondness for stories of outdoor pursuits, healthy living and BDSM. Her work has been published by Xcite Books and the websites Every Night Erotica and Oysters & Chocolate.
JOANNE KENRICK is a multi-published author who writes both contemporaries and paranormals. Her Irish Kisses series earned her the title of an Amazon bestselling author, and she regularly blogs with The Pop Culture Divas, Diamond Authors and Paranormal Romantics.
HILARY KEYES is an art aficionado and punk rocker living in Japan. She’s into design, tattoos, kimonos, decadent history and dressing up her plastic anatomy skeleton, Hiroshi-kun.
ANNABETH LEONG (annabethleong.blogspot.com) has written erotica of many flavors—dark, romantic, kinky, vanilla, straight, lesbian, bi and ménage. She believes the kitchen beats out the bedroom as the most erotic room in the house. Her work has been published by Cleis, Xcite, Circlet, Coming Together and others.
MEDEA MOR (medeamor.blogspot.com) has had short stories published by Cleis, Mischief and Xcite, and hopes soon to start self-publishing longer works of fiction. She specializes in BDSM-flavored erotica with wicked, charismatic doms and intelligent, well-educated subs.
ANIKA RAY’s erotic stories have appeared in several anthologies, most recently Sweet Confessions, edited by Violet Blue, and Best Women’s Erotica 2013. She works as a foreign correspondent.
Erotica writer GISELLE RENARDE is a queer Canadian, avid volunteer, contributor to more than one hundred short-story anthologies and author of numerous electronic and print books, including Anonymous, Nanny State and My Mistress’ Thighs. Ms. Renarde lives across from a park, with two bilingual cats who sleep on her head.
COLE RILEY is the pen name for a well-known journalist and reviewer. His work has appeared in several anthologies and magazines, including a recent stint as a columnist at SexIs Magazine. He has edited two popular anthologies, Making the Hook-Up: Edgy Sex with Soul and Too Much Boogie: Erotic Remixes of the Dirty Blues.
MIEL ROSE is a rural queer femme, magic maker, and healer. You can find her other sexy stories in a multitude of anthologies including: Lesbian Lust, The Harder She Comes and the forthcoming Leather Ever After. Or look for her self-published collection, Overflow: Tales of Butch-Femme Love, Sex and Desire.
KISSA STARLING (kissastarling.com) began penning notes in class many years ago. Around 2007 she began writing with the intent to publish. A Christmas contest caught her eye, and she hasn’t stopped submitting since. Her stories have appeared in a few Cleis anthologies including Peep Show, Please, Sir and Serving Him.
SOPHIA VALENTI (sophiavalenti.blogspot.com) is the author of Indecent Desires, an erotic novella of spanking and submission. Her fiction has appeared in a variety of anthologies, including Sudden Sex: 69 Sultry Short Stories, The Big Book of Bondage and Kiss My Ass.
ALLISON WONDERLAND (aisforallison.blogspot.com) is on the write track. Her cliterature appears in Sudden Sex, Best Lesbian Romance 2013, Sweet Love: Erotic Fantasies for Couples and Wild Girls, Wild Nights. Allison has been a smutty storyteller since 2007, and her specialtease—er, specialties—are erotic romance and lesbian erotica.