LETTA NEELY is a black dyke living in Boston. She has written two chapbooks and one book of poetry, Juba (Wildheart Press). Her work has been included in the anthologies Catch the Fire and Does Your Mama Know?.
LINDA L. NELSON is a freelance editor and writer, and the CEO for a NYC-based technology consulting firm. She and her lover, Judith Jerome, have recently purchased a historic, circa 1912 Opera House in Stonington, Maine, which they and partners will run as a nonprofit, community-based performance organization, Opera House Arts (www.operahousearts.org).
JOAN NESTLE co-founded the Lesbian Herstory Archives which now fills a three-story building in Brooklyn. She is the author of A Fragile Union and A Restricted Country and editor of The Persistent Desire. She is co-editor with Naomi Holoch of Worlds Unspoken: An Anthology of International Lesbian Fiction and the Women on Women lesbian fiction series. With John Preston, she co-edited Sister and Brother: Lesbians and Gay Men Write About Their Lives Together.
CAROL QUEEN is an widely published writer of erotic fiction, essays, and sex information. She has a doctorate in human sexuality from The Institute for the Advanced Study of Human Sexuality. She is the author of The Leather Daddy and the Femme, Exhibitionism for the Shy, and Real Live Nude Girl. She co-edited Sex Spoken Here, Switch Hitters and PoMoSexuals. Her educational videos include Carol Queen’s Great Vibrations and Bend Over Boyfriend.
JANE PERKINS has performed her collection of monologues, “Food, Clothing, and Shelter” in theaters around New York City. She has received an Emerging Artists Grant from the Field, and came in 7th place in the 1995 Writer’s Digest short fiction competition. She is currently writing a novel.
ROBIN PODOLSKY is a writer who lives and works in Los Angeles.
KARIN POMERANTZ is a writer and self-publisher living and trying to breathe in the cultural mecca otherwise known as Boston; however, if she had her druthers, she’d be living in the country, tending bees and drinking lots of lemonade. Her work appears in Skin Deep: Real Life Lesbian Sex Stories and on her web site www.turnmagazine.com.
DEBORAH L. REPPLIER likes to blur the boundaries between poetry and prose, exploring the continuum of past/present, memory/fantasy and that sometimes space of reality. Her writing has been published in The Underwood Review, Sojourner, Howth Castle, and Common Lives Lesbian Lives. She self-published and co-edited Our Writes (Night Hag Press), an anthology of writings from a reading series for local Boston women that Deborah has been organizing for over eight years.
LAUREN SANDERS is a writer who lives in the East Village of Manhattan. Her novel Kamikaze Lust was published in April 2000. Her nonfiction writing has appeared in Time Out New York, The American Book Review, Poets & Writers, and numerous other publications. She is coeditor of the anthology Too Darn Hot: Writing About Sex Since Kinsey, and is currently at work on another novel, With or Without You.
HEATHER SEGGEL is a freelance writer living in Northern California and dodging falling redwood boughs.
ALISON L. SMITH’s fiction has previously appeared in Best Lesbian Erotica 1999 and Hot and Bothered 2. She lives in Northampton, Massachusetts.
WICKIE STAMPS’ work appears in numerous anthologies, including Flashpoint, Close Calls, Brothers and Sisters, Doing It For Daddy, Leatherfolk, Queer View Mirror, Switch Hitters, Once Upon a Time, Sons of Darkness, and Strategic Sex. Wickie is a past editor of Drummer magazine and current editor of Socialist Review.
CECILIA TAN is the author of Black Feathers: Erotic Dreams (HarperCollins) and the editor of numerous erotic science fiction and fantasy anthologies for Circlet Press. Her short stories have appeared in Herotica 3, 4, and 5, Best American Erotica 1996 and 1998, Best Lesbian Erotica 1997, 1999, and 2000 and many other anthologies and magazines.
SARAH FRAN WISBY lives and works in San Francisco.
TERRY WOLVERTON is the author of Bailey’s Beads, a novel, and two collections of poetry: Black Slip and Mystery Bruise. Her fiction, poems, essays, and dramatic texts have been published in Calyx, Glimmer Train, and Zyzzyva, and widely anthologized. She edited twelve literary anthologies, including three volumes each of the award-winning His and Hers. She is the founder of Writers At Work, a creative writing community in Los Angeles, where she teaches workshops in fiction and poetry.
About the Editor
TRISTAN TAORMINO is series editor of Best Lesbian Erotica, for which she has collaborated with Joan Nestle, Heather Lewis, Jewelle Gomez, Jenifer Levin, and Chrystos. The 1997 collection was nominated for a Lambda Literary Award, and the 1999 edition was a Firecracker Alternative Book Award nominee. She is the author of The Ultimate Guide to Anal Sex for Women, which won the 1998 Firecracker Award. She is director, producer and star of the video, Tristan Taormino’s Ultimate Guide to Anal Sex for Women, distributed by Evil Angel Video. She is Editor of On Our Backs, a columnist for The Village Voice, and sex advice columnist for Taboo magazine. She was Publisher and Editrix of the sex magazine Pucker Up, and is webmistress for www.puckerup.com . She has been featured in Playboy, Penthouse, Entertainment Weekly, Details, New York Magazine, Out Magazine, Spin, and on HBO’s Real Sex. She teaches sex workshops and lectures on sex nationwide.
Copyright © 2000 by Tristan Taormino
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The following stories are reprinted from Best Lesbian Erotica 1996: “Seduction” © 1995 by Terry Wolverton was first published in modern words (Summer 1995); “Dybbuk” © 1995 by Robin Podolsky was first published in Diabolical Clits (Vol. 1 #1); “The Little Macho Girl” © 1996 by Kate Bornstein appeared in Once Upon a Time: Erotic Fairy Tales for Women (Richard Kasak, 1996) and is used by permission of the author and editor; “Pumpkin Pie” © 1996 by Sandra Lee Golvin is adapted from her one-woman show “Pumpkin Pie: A Story of Cross-Gender Transcendence” which debuted at Highways in Los Angeles in 1994; “And Salome Danced” © 1995 by Kelley Eskridge was first published in Little Deaths (Dell Abyss, 1995). The following stories are reprinted from Best Lesbian Erotica 1997: “Ariel” © 1997 by Carol Queen is from her novel The Leather Daddy and the Femme (Cleis Press, 1998); “Julio” © 1997 by Mickey Laskin appeared in Leatherwomen III edited by Laura Antoniou (Masquerade Books, 1998); “Penetration” © 1997 by Cecilia Tan appeared in The Best American Erotica 1998 edited by Susie Bright (Simon & Schuster, 1998). The following stories are reprinted from Best Lesbian Erotica 1998: “Box 309” ©-1998 by Jane DeLynn is excerpted from her novel Box 309. Excerpts of “Cleo’s Gone” by Gwendolyn Bikis first appeared in Close Calls edited by Susan Fox Rogers (St. Martin’s Press, 1997) and Does Your Mama Know? edited by Lisa C. Moore (Redbone Press, 1997); an earlier version appeared in The Persistent Desire edited by Joan Nestle (Alyson, 1992). The following stories are reprinted from Best Lesbian Erotica 1999: “Juba” © 1998 by Letta Neely, originally appeared in Juba by Letta Neely (Wildheart Press, 1998); “Unfinished Tattoo” ©-1998 by Gerry Gomez Pearlberg first appeared in Hot & Bothered edited by Karen X. Tulchinsky (Arsenal Pulp Press, 1998); “The Blue Place” ©-1998 by Nicola Griffith is an excerpt from her novel The Blue Place (Avon Books, 1998). The following story is reprinted from Best Lesbian Erotica 2000: “By the Boots” © 1999 by Lauren Sanders is an excerpt from her novel Kamikaze Lust (Akashic Books, 2000).
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