by Sacchi Green
AIMEE HERMAN is a Brooklyn writer looking to disembowel the architecture of gender, bodies and what it means to be queer. Find Aimee’s poems in Troubling the Line: Trans and Genderqueer Poetry and Poetics (Nightboat Books), in the full-length collection, to go without blinking (BlazeVOX books) and at aimeeherman.wordpress.com.
VICTORIA JANSSEN (victoriajanssen.com) has written three novels for Harlequin, including The Duchess, Her Maid, The Groom and Their Lover, as well as short stories. Her recent work may be found in Morning, Noon and Night; The Mammoth Book of Best New Erotica 12 and Sudden Sex.
KYLE JONES writes dirty stories that will swagger and wink their way into your waking dreams, stories featuring characters with diverse genders and identities. For more from Kyle, including thoughts and writing on identity, gender, privilege, kink, polyamory and parenting, point your browser to butchtastic.net.
AXA LEE is an erotica-writing Michigan farm girl, who grazes cattle in her yard and herds incorrigible poultry with a cowardly dog. She’s written since her grandmother had to spell the words for her. Other work appears in Shameless Behavior and Dirty Little Numbers, published by Go Deeper Press.
ANNABETH LEONG’s (annabethleong.blogspot.com) lesbian erotica includes One Flesh (Storm Moon Press), Heated Leather Lover (Ellora’s Cave), and short stories in Best Bondage Erotica 2014 (Cleis), Women with Handcuffs (Cleis), She Who Must Be Obeyed (Lethe Press) and many more anthologies. Follow her on Twitter @annabethleong.
SOMMER MARSDEN (sommermarsden.blogspot.com): professional dirty-word writer, gluten-free baker, sock addict, fat wiener-dog walker, expert procrastinator. Called “one of the top storytellers in the erotic genre” by Violet Blue, and author of numerous erotic novels including Restricted Release, Boys Next Door, Restless Spirit and Lost in You.
MELISSA MAYHEW loves writing romantic and erotic fiction. Her short stories include Bend Over, Baby 1 & 2 and she has contributed to anthologies including The Mammoth Book of Urban Erotic Confessions. As Goldie Ledbury, she has published a novella, Lone Star Family Values. Melissa lives in Durham, England.
San Francisco–based writer, teacher and somatic sex coach PAVINI MORAY helps queer, gender-fabulous and fat clients claim their desire and live their full erotic potential. When not blogging about sex and intimacy at emancipatingsexuality.com, Pavini can be found putting on glitter and dreaming up pleasure revolutions.
D. ORCHID is a geeky mocha butch with a love of poetry, power dynamics, and stories that take readers to unexpected places alongside characters from every shade of every rainbow. Writing for wanderers at heart, D. explores joy and struggle, freedom and surrender, the sweetness and the darkness of life.
SINCLAIR SEXSMITH (mrsexsmith.com) is an erotic coach and educator. They write the award-winning online Sugarbutch Chronicles: The Sex, Gender, and Relationship Adventures of a Kinky Queer Butch Top (sugarbutch.net), have contributed to more than twenty anthologies and edited Say Please: Lesbian BDSM Erotica. They frequently teach gender and sexuality workshops.
KATHLEEN TUDOR hides out in the wilds of California with her spouse and their favorite monkey. Her wicked words have broken down the doors to presses like Cleis, Mischief Harper-Collins, Xcite and more. If you see her, please contact [email protected]. Keep an eye on kathleentudor.com for updates on her antics.
VICTORIA VILLASENOR is an editor for a lesbian publishing house and occasional writer, with stories in Blood and Lipstick, She-Shifters, Women Who Bite, Women of the Dark Streets, Where the Girls Are, Women in Uniform and Blue Collar Lesbian Erotica. She lives in the Midlands of England with her partner.
ANNA WATSON is a married, old-school femme who queers suburbia west of Boston and who has been writing about butch/femme sexuality for over twenty years. This story is for neighborhood characters and funny little women everywhere. You are gorgeous, sexy, fabulous. Show me. I want to see.
ABOUT THE EDITOR
SACCHI GREEN is a Lambda Award–winning writer and editor of erotica and other stimulating genres. Her stories have appeared in scores of publications, including eight volumes of Best Lesbian Erotica, four of Best Women’s Erotica, and four of Best Lesbian Romance. In recent years she’s taken to wielding the editorial whip, editing nine lesbian erotica anthologies, most recently Lesbian Cowboys, Girl Crazy, Lesbian Lust, Women with Handcuffs, Girl Fever and Wild Girls, Wild Nights, all from Cleis Press. Sacchi lives in western Massachusetts, retreats often to the mountains of New Hampshire and can be found online at sacchi-green.blogspot.com and on Facebook.