Z. ESMÉ MENDOZA is a Filipino American writer who believes in the importance of representation. People of color and other marginalized groups take center stage in her works. “Remote Vibrations” is her first published story. A novel about Babs and Richie’s kinky romance is currently in progress.
T.C. MILL (tc-mill.com) is the author of the Lady Crayl series and By the Green Road, and co-editor of three anthologies from the New Smut Project. She’s appeared in Cliterature; Best Lesbian Erotica of the Year, Volume 3; Best Women’s Erotica of the Year, Volume 2; The Sexy Librarian’s Dirty Thirty 2, and the femdom anthology Getting It.
VELVET MOORE has appeared in Orgasmic: Erotica for Women; Best Women’s Erotica 2011; and The Mammoth Book of Best New Erotica 10. She currently lives in Ohio and makes a living as a corporate writer.
EVAN MORA is a kinky queer writer whose tales of love, lust, and other demons have appeared in more than thirty anthologies. She lives in Toronto with her partner and menagerie of two- and four-legged kids. When not writing, she loves food, wine, and all manner of earthly delights.
NICO MURRAY (authornicomurray.wordpress.com/) is a Canadian author now resident in the Netherlands in an old canal house with a lot of spiders. She has written erotica pieces, as well as steampunk, vampire, medieval romance, and sci-fi.
SIENNA SAINT-CYR’s erotic fiction has appeared in series like Love Slave and Sexual Expression, anthologies like Silence is Golden and Best Women’s Erotica of the Year, Volume 4, and nonfiction in Kintsugi-Powerful Stories of Healing Trauma. They own SinCyr Publishing; a press with a focus on teaching consent culture.
DONNA GEORGE STOREY (donnageorgestorey.com) is the author of Amorous Woman, a novel based on her experiences in Japan, and the story collection The Mammoth Book of Erotica Presents the Best of Donna George Storey. She also writes a column on sex and writing at the Erotica Readers and Writers Association.
ANUJA VARGHESE (anujavarghese.com) is a Canadian writer whose work has appeared in several literary magazines, as well as in the Best Women’s Erotica of the Year, Volume 6 anthology. She is currently pursuing creative writing at the University of Toronto and probably reads too much into every fortune cookie she opens.
ABOUT THE EDITOR
RACHEL KRAMER BUSSEL (rachelkramerbussel.com) is a New Jersey-based author, editor, blogger, and writing instructor. She has edited over sixty books of erotica, including Best Bondage Erotica of the Year, Volumes 1 and 2; Dirty Dates: Erotic Fantasies for Couples; Cheeky Spanking Stories; Bottoms Up; Spanked: Red-Cheeked Erotica; Please, Sir; Please, Ma’am; He’s on Top; She’s on Top; Come Again: Sex Toy Erotica; The Big Book of Orgasms; The Big Book of Submission, Volumes 1 and 2; Lust in Latex; Anything for You; Baby Got Back: Anal Erotica; Suite Encounters; Gotta Have It; Women in Lust; Surrender; Orgasmic; Fast Girls; Going Down; Tasting Him; Tasting Her; Crossdressing; and Best Women’s Erotica of the Year, Volumes 1-6. Her anthologies have won eight IPPY (Independent Publisher) Awards, and The Big Book of Submission, Volume 2, Dirty Dates, and Surrender won the National Leather Association Samois Anthology Award.
Rachel has written for AVN, Bust, Cosmopolitan, Curve,The Daily Beast, Elle.com, Fortune.com, Glamour, The Goods, Gothamist, Harper’s Bazaar, Huffington Post, Inked, InStyle, Marie Claire, MEL, Men’s Health, Newsday, New York Post, New York Observer, The New York Times, O: The Oprah Magazine, Penthouse, The Philadelphia Inquirer, Refinery29, Rolling Stone, The Root, Salon, San Francisco Chronicle, Self,Slate, Time.com, Time Out New York, and Zink, among others. She has appeared on “The Gayle King Show,” “The Martha Stewart Show,” “The Berman and Berman Show,” NY1, and Showtime’s “Family Business.” She hosted the popular In the Flesh Erotic Reading Series, featuring readers from Susie Bright to Zane, speaks at conferences, and does readings and teaches erotic writing workshops around the world and online. She blogs at lustylady.blogspot.com and consults about erotica and sex-related nonfiction at eroticawriting101.com. Follow her @raquelita on Twitter.
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