TERESA LAMAI started writing fiction when she stopped dancing. Her work can also be found in Best Women’s Erotica.
ROSALIND CHRISTINE LLOYD’s work has appeared in Best American Erotica 2001, Hot & Bothered, Faster Pussycat, Skin Deep, and Set in Stone, among other erotica series.
SKIAN MCGUIRE is a working-class Quaker leatherdyke from western Massachusetts whose stories and poetry have appeared in quite a few anthologies, periodicals, and webzines.
ELAINE MILLERwrites, designs websites, and teaches BDSM workshops in Vancouver, Canada. She’s a polyam-orous femme/butch leatherdyke daddy—and she can’t stand being labeled.
PEGGY MUNSON, once an innocent midwestern girl, was turned into a smut peddler by the Best Lesbian Erotica enterprise, with stories in nine editions (1998–2005 as well as Best of…). Visit www.peggymunson.com for information on her recent work.
MADELEINE OH (www.madeleineoh.com), a transplanted Brit, retired LD teacher, and grandmother, lives in Ohio with her husband of thirty-four years. She has published her writing in the United States, United Kingdom, and Australia.
ANA PERIL has written for Best Lesbian Erotica (2003 and 2005), Glamour Girls: Femme-Femme Erotica, the Village Voice, Out Traveler, and the Rough Guides.
JEAN ROBERTA teaches first-year English classes at a Canadian prairie university, writes in various genres, and reminisces about her disreputable past.
JULIE LEVIN RUSSO is a PhD student in modern culture and media at Brown University, where she is regularly presents on erotic writing and pornography, alternative sexualities, and open relationships.
LAUREN SANDERS is the author of two novels from Akashic Books: With or Without You and Kamikaze Lust, which won a Lambda Literary Award in 2000.
ALISON L. SMITH’s first book, Name All the Animals, was published by Scribner in 2004. Her work has appeared in McSweeney’s, Best American Erotica 2003, and various anthologies. She can be reached at www.namealltheanimals.com.
SPARKY is a drag king, female drag performer, and burlesque stagehand. Sparky is published on Playbutch.net and Technodyke.com and writes a regular column for Dykediva.com.
JERA STAR is a pink-haired, hippie bi chick who writes erotica and makes wooden spanking paddles in Newfoundland. She loves watermelon and hates cats.
CECILIA TAN is the author of Black Feathers, Telepaths Don’t Need Safewords, and The Velderet. Her erotica has appeared almost everywhere, from Penthouse to Ms. For more juicy details, visit www.ceciliatan.com.
When not roping and riding, RAKELLE VAL ENCIA is writing. Published in Best Lesbian Erotica 2004, she feels there’s no need to mention more.
KYLE WALKER is the alter ego of a mild-mannered editor and playwright whose work has appeared in the Best Lesbian Erotica series, A Woman’s Touch, and Friction 7.
TARA-MICHELLE ZINIUK is a writer, performer, activist, supervillain, and princess. She is at work completing her first collection of poetry and editing an anthology called Dirt Road: Transient Tales.
About the Editor
TRISTAN TAORMINO is the award-winning editor of the Best Lesbian Erotica series and the author of three books: True Lust: Adventures in Sex, Porn and Perversion; Down and Dirty Sex Secrets; and The Ultimate Guide to Anal Sex for Women. She is the editor of Hot Lesbian Erotica. She is director, producer, and star of two videos based on her book, Tristan Taormino’s Ultimate Guide to Anal Sex for Women 1 & 2, which are distributed by Evil Angel Video. She is a columnist for the Village Voice and Taboo Magazine. She has been featured in over three-hundred publications including the New York Times, Redbook, Glamour, Cosmopolitan, Playboy, Penthouse, Entertainment Weekly, Vibe, and Men’s Health. She has appeared on CNN, The Ricki Lake Show, NBC’s The Other Half, MTV, HBO’s Real Sex, The Howard Stern Show, The Discovery Channel, Oxygen, and Loveline. She teaches sexuality workshops around the country and her official website is www.puckerup.com.
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