MARTY MCCONNELL received her MFA from Sarah Lawrence College and cocurates the flagship reading series of the louderARTS Project, a New York City-based literary nonprofit. Her work has been published in numerous anthologies, including Homewrecker: An Adultery Reader; Spoken Word Revolution: Redux; His Rib; and Women of the Bowery, as well as magazines including Rattapallax, Fourteen Hills, Thirteenth Moon, 2River View, Lodestar Quarterly, and Blue Fifth Review, and is forthcoming in Rattle. She has performed in and facilitated workshops at schools and festivals around the country, including the Dodge Poetry Festival, the Connecticut Poetry Festival, Cornell University, University of Utah, James Madison University, University of Connecticut, University of Arkansas, DePaul University, and more.
RICHARD MELO is the author of the novel Jokerman 8 (Soft Skull, 2004). Melo lives in Portland, Oregon, and is working on a second book.
T. R. MOSS is the pseudonym of a writer whose work has appeared in publications including Best Lesbian Erotica 2004 and Best of the Best Lesbian Erotica 2.
GABE SCELTA makes art, writes stuff, and takes long showers. He has artwork in over fifty private collections and occasionally publishes research about ancient writing systems as well as stories about sex with editors. Gabe thanks Daphne for having great taste in stories and poker buddies, Aimee for her love and support, and Noelle for coming back after so long. He currently lives in San Francisco with an angry seven-fingered cat, and many semiaggressive fishes. Visit www.thisisgabes.com.
LORI SELKE’s writing has appeared in anthologies such as Homewrecker, Glamour Girls, Bottoms Up, and Everything You Know About Sex Is Wrong. She is the editor of two collections of down-and-dirty dyke erotica, Tough Girls and Tough Girls 2. She lives in Oakland, California, with two sweeties and three cats.
BUCKY SINISTER is the author of King of the Roadkills, Whiskey and Robots, and All Blacked Out & Nowhere to Go. His debut spoken-word CD, What Happens in Narnia Stays in Narnia, is out now on Talent Moat Records. He enjoys Ben & Jerry’s ice cream, Muddy Waters’s coffee, and run-on sentences.
ERIC SPITZNAGEL writes or has written for magazines like Playboy, Esquire, Spy, Harper’s, Mean, Blender, and Maxim, among many others. He is a contributing editor for the Believer and the web editor for Monkeybicycle. He has written six books, including one that was published in German and features a cat on the cover for no apparent reason. His latest books include Fast Forward (Manic D, 2006), a memoir of his brief career writing screenplays for the adult film industry, and The Hardest (Working) Man in Show Biz (HarperCollins, 2007), the autobiography of porn star Ron Jeremy. His website is called Vonnegut’s Asshole (www.vonnegutsasshole. com), although he rarely writes about assholes or Kurt Vonnegut. He’s more afraid of you than you are of him.
SUSAN STEINBERG is the author of the story collections Hydroplane and The End of Free Love (Fiction Collective 2). Her stories have appeared in McSweeney’s, Conjunctions, the Gettysburg Review, Boulevard, Quarterly West, American Short Fiction, and elsewhere. She has held summer residencies at Yaddo and the MacDowell Colony. She was raised in Baltimore, attended school in Massachusetts, and currently lives in San Francisco.
CAROLYN TURGEON studied English and Italian literature at Penn State and received a master’s in comparative literature from UCLA. Her first novel, Rain Village, was published by Unbridled Books in 2006. Her second novel, Godmother, about the fairy godmother from the Cinderella story, will be published by Three Rivers Press in 2009. She is currently working on her third novel. Carolyn lives in New York.
BETT WILLIAMS is the author of Girl Walking Backwards (St. Martin’s, 1998) and The Wrestling Party (Alyson, 2003). She is currently at work on her third book, White Line Fever, about Los Angeles freeways, gay truckers, and all things mobile and petroleum-drunk.
ABOUT THE EDITOR
Daphne Gottlieb stitches together the ivory tower and the gutter using just her tongue. She is most recently the author of her fourth book of poetry, Kissing Dead Girls. She is also the author of a graphic novel (Jokes and the Unconscious, illustrated by Diane DiMassa), the editor of Homewrecker: An Adultery Reader, and the author of three books of award-winning poetry: Final Girl, Why Things Burn, and Pelt. Additionally, her work has appeared in Utne Reader and on McSweeneys.net and Nerve.com, as well as in a number of journals and more than thirty anthologies. She has served as poetry editor of other magazine and Lodestar Quarterly. Daphne currently teaches at New College of California and received her MFA from Mills College. You can find her online at www.daphnegottlieb.com.
CREDITS
Stephen Elliott’s “What It’s Like in San Francisco” first appeared on Nerve.com under the title “San Francisco Love Story” and is reprinted with permission.
An earlier version of “Why Things Hop,” by Marlo Gayle, first appeared as “Pink, Fluffy, Bound, and Gagged” in suspect thoughts: a journal of subversive writing, issue 14, 2005.
“Don’t Mind Dyin’,” by Tennessee Jones, is an excerpt from the zine Teenage Death Songs, issue 16, 2005.
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Single State of the Union: Single Women Speak Out on Life, Love, and the Pursuit of Happiness edited by Diane Mapes. $14.95, 1-58005-202-9. Written by an impressive roster of single (and some formerly single) women, this collection portrays single women as individuals whose lives extend well beyond Match.com and Manolo Blahniks.
Confessions of a Naughty Mommy: How I Found My Lost Libido by Heidi Raykeil. $14.95, 1-58005-157-X. The Naughty Mommy shares her bedroom woes and woo-hoos with other mamas who are rediscovering their sex lives after baby and are ready to think about it, talk about it, and DO it.
Inappropriate Random: Stories on Sex and Love edited by Amy Prior. $13.95, 1-58005-099-9. This collection of short fiction by women writers takes a hard look at love today—exposing its flaws with unflinching, often hilarious, candor.
Unruly Appetites: Erotic Stories by Hanne Blank. $14.95, 1-58005-081-6. Erotic fiction with sensual lyricism and dynamic characters that titillate and inspire.
Shameless: Women’s Intimate Erotica edited by Hanne Blank. $14.95, 1-58005-060-3. Diverse and delicious memoir-style erotica by today’s hottest fiction writers.
Fucking Daphne
Mostly True Stories and Fictions
Copyright © 2008 Daphne Gottlieb
Published by Seal Press
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Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data
Fucking Daphne : mostly true stories and fictions / edited by Daphne Gottlieb.
p. cm.
eISBN : 978-1-580-05373-0
1. Erotic stories, American. 2. Gottlieb, Daphne, 1968-—Fiction. 3. Identity (Psychology)—Fiction. 4. American fiction—21st century. I. Gottlieb, Daphne, 1968-
PS648.E7F83 2008
813’.01083538—dc22
2007039240
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