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.

EMILY BINGHAM is a Portland, Oregon, author, whose writing has appeared in Best Bondage Erotica 2011, Serving Him: Tales of Erotic Submission, and on Cleansheets.com. She’s also a fetish model for photographers across the country. Her adventures in rope can be found at her erotic writing blog queanofrope.com.

ERZABET BISHOP (Twitter @erzabetbishop) has been crafting stories since she could first pound keys on her parents’ old typewriter, but only discovered recently that writing naughty books is much more fun. She is a contributing author to Coming Together: Girl on Girl along with many other anthologies.

JACQUELINE BROCKER (jacquelinebrocker.esquinx.net) is an Australian writer living in the United Kingdom. Her short erotic fiction has appeared in My First Spanking, The Mammoth Book of Quick and Dirty Erotica and Under Her Thumb (Cleis Press). Her novella Body & Bow was published by Forbidden Fiction.

KATHLEEN DELANEY-ADAMS is a stone high femme porn author and spoken word performer. A national touring veteran, Kathleen is the artistic director of BODY HEAT: Femme Porn Tour, now in its seventh year. Look for her work in Best Bondage Erotica 2014, edited by Rachel Kramer Bussel.

JUSTINE ELYOT isn’t sure how she managed to write twelve erotic novels since 2008 but somehow it happened, and it’s still happening now. She’s also written dozens of novellas and short stories for publishers such as Black Lace, Cleis, Mischief and Xcite, among others. BDSM is number one in her top ten of favorite themes.

DOROTHY FREED (dorothyfreedwrites.com; @Dorothy-Freedl) is the pseudonym of an artist turned writer who lives near San Francisco, and writes both fiction and memoir. Her work appears in Cheeky Spanking Stories, Twice the Pleasure, Ageless Erotica, The Seattle Art and Literature Festival 10th Anniversary Anthology and The Mammoth Book of Quick and Dirty Erotica.

LEIGH EDWARD GRAY is a brat who is learning to be good in Texas with her spouse. She enjoys cooking (and sometimes serving), reading and writing, and everything depicted in her work.

NIK HAVERT is a writer, horror-movie host and martial arts instructor. Some of his work has appeared in Best Lesbian Erotica 2010, Girl Fever, and Twice the Pleasure writing as Nicole Wolfe. He also writes and self-publishes comic books for models and adult film stars.

ELISE HEPNER writes smutty goodness for Ellora’s Cave, Xcite and Secret Cravings Publishing. She’s appeared in several Cleis anthologies including Gotta Have It: 69 Stories of Sudden Sex and Best Bondage Erotica 2012. She lives with her husband and two clingy kitties in Maryland.

TILLY HUNTER is a British author with a wicked imagination and a taste for quirky erotica. She has stories in anthologies from Xcite Books, MLR Press, House of Erotica and others. Her first solo e-book, Miranda’s Tempest: Three Classic Tales with a Kinky Twist, is out now.

SKYLAR KADE (skylarkade.com) writes erotic romance of the kinky persuasion. She lives in California and spends her time asking the cabana boys to bring her more mimosas and feed her strawberries while she dreams up her next naughty adventure.

D. L. KING (dlkingerotica.blogspot.com) is the editor of anthologies such as Slave Girls, Under Her Thumb and The Harder She Comes, winner of the Lambda Literary Award and the Independent Publisher’s Book Award gold medal. Her stories can be found in Best Bondage Erotica, Leather Ever After and Luscious, among others.

MINA MURRAY (minamurray.wordpress.com) is an antipodean whiskey aficionado and smut-peddler. Her work is featured in several anthologies, including Brief Encounters; Sudden Sex: 69 Sultry Short Stories; The Mammoth Book of Quick & Dirty Erotica; Baby Got Back and The Big Book of Orgasms.

GISELLE RENARDE is a queer Canadian, avid volunteer, contributor to more than one hundred short-story anthologies, and award-winning author of books like Anonymous, The Red Satin Collection and My Mistress’ Thighs. Ms. Renarde lives across from a park with two bilingual cats who sleep on her head.

ALVA ROSE has been writing since she could speak. Her smut is informed by a strong set of sex-positive feminist values and attempts to model the best of our sexual culture while still getting you off. She resides in the snowy city of Rochester, NY, and tweets at @alvarosewrites.

MORGAN SIERRA (deecarney.com) is the pen name for award-winning, best-selling author, Dee Carney. Morgan’s erotica pushes boundaries and are stories that are a little hotter, a little naughtier and a lot more sensual.

KATHLEEN TUDOR is a rockin’ erotic author and super-editor, with stories in anthologies from Cleis, Circlet, Storm Moon, Mischief HarperCollins, Xcite and more. Check out Take Me and My Boyfriend’s Boyfriends. Want to feature in your own erotic short? Email PolyKathleen@gmail.com for details.

JADE A. WATERS (jadeawaters.com) began her literary naughtiness when she convinced her boyfriend that the sexiest form of foreplay was reading provocative synonyms from a thesaurus. Her latest piece, “The Flogger,” can be found in The Big Book of Orgasms from Cleis Press.

SARA TAYLOR WOODS (sarataylorwoods.com; @sarataylorwoods) writes erotica and dark contemporary fantasy. Her short story, “A Girl’s Gotta Eat,” appeared in The Big Bad, and her erotic short, “Well Suited,” was featured on bestselling author Tiffany Reisz’s blog.