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Scarlet Letters co-editor Hanne Blank is a writer, editor, public speaker, and educator whose work
in fields ranging from sexuality and body image to cultural history
and opera has appeared to great acclaim in many print and online
publications, anthologies and collections, as well as in book
form. She and her work have been featured and reviewed in The Village Voice, OUT Magazine, First for Women Magazine, Libido,
MODE, Northern Ohio Live, and many other periodicals, and she has been widely interviewed
on radio and television in the US, UK, and Canada, including being
featured on National Public Radio and on the acclaimed Canadian
program SexTV. |
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She is the author/editor of the following books:
- Shameless: Women's Intimate Erotica (2oo2, Seal Press)
- Best Transgender Erotica (with Raven Kaldera, 2002, Circlet Press)
- Zaftig: Well Rounded Erotica (2001, Cleis Press)
- Big Big Love: A Sourcebook on Sex for People of Size and Those
Who Love Them (2000, Greenery Press)
Ms. Blank's fiction, nonfiction, essays, travel writing, and reviews
have appeared in venues including the Boston Phoenix, Best American Erotica, Santa Fean Magazine, Best
Women's Erotica, the Sonoma County Independent, The Mammoth Book
of Best New Erotica, Lilith Magazine, Scarlet Letters, Yentl's
Revenge: The Next Wave of Jewish Feminism, Good Vibes Magazine,
Bitch: Feminist Response to Pop Culture, and numerous others.
Ms. Blank lives and works in the greater Baltimore, Maryland area,
with her spouse and cats.
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04.10.02: bowl of serial (serial fiction)
Getting There: Episode Four |
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| It's no secret that a glance can say more than a sentence and
that some facial expressions can beggar even the most eloquently
worded paragraphs. The sticky bit is the interpretation. Faced
with the overstuffed file folder, Kala's dumbstruck stare might've
telegraphed sudden panic, a sort of overload crisis caused by
the sudden threat of too damned much impending input. |
03.22.02: bowl of serial (serial fiction)
Getting There: Episode Three |
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| Kala laughed out loud at the idea of Vivian Salton as a sugar
daddy. Maybe if she hadn't been instrumental in founding the Women's
Studies department at the university where she taught, or hadn't
been writing oft-cited articles on the gender politics of the
Victorian novel for the past twenty years, it would've been easier
to imagine. |
03.13.02: short fiction
Claudia |
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| She certainly wasn't a type of woman I'd ever been drawn to previously.
Her age, for one thing, would normally have kept me at a distance.
And if not her age, then her fierceness, a sturdy upright independence
which intimidated at the same time as it attracted. The girls
I'd dated up to that point were mostly soft creatures, worried
that they'd make the wrong impression, take the wrong step and
end up alone, deposed in favor of someone better, cuter, less
imposing. Not Claudia. |
03.05.02: bowl of serial (serial fiction)
Getting There: Episode Two |
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| Parlor? Maybe people did still use that word. Hell, maybe some
people still had them. Kala arched an eyebrow as she stepped onto
the glossy parquet. |
02.14.02: bowl of serial (serial fiction)
Getting There: Episode One |
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| It was the bus that made her decide to do it, the routine trip
on the rank, humid, city bus whose hard, utilitarian, theoretically
vandal-proof blue plastic seats had become rococo with magic-marker
graffiti curlicues buffed to haze by the butts and backs of pissed-off
commuters. It was easy to be a pissed-off commuter when it was
nearly ninety humid degrees out and it was only the beginning
of May. |
02.12.02: short fiction
Apocrypha |
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| And that is how it was on the day that Sarah became the maidservant
of the woman Miriam, who is known as Mary Magdalene. The man who
had been her lover for several months had left her that morning
without a word, without a kiss, leaving a small leather pouch
filled with thick gold coins on her table. He would not be back.
Sarah knew this as she knew how birds love the trees and the sky,
and she wept, not knowing why. |
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11.02.01: essay & commentary
So, You Want to Write Erotica? |
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| As an erotica writer and editor, I fairly often get asked for
my advice on the matter of writing erotica. After being asked
today -- for the umpty-fifth time -- if I would please scatter
a few pearls of smutwriter wisdom for the general audience, I've
decided to add my voice to the throng. |
2000 - 2002: sexpertise
Ask The Fat Broad |
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| From fisting to forced feminization, muffdiving to male multiple
orgasm, ATFB has some of the best staright-up sex advice one could
hope for. |
More Hanne in the Archives: Spring 1999 - present: all issues |
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12.07.06: Scarlet Letters -- in case it isn't glaringly obvious -- is currently
on an extended hiatus. The web has changed, we've changed, and
we're trying to figure out how we both fit together now, which isn't a process we want to rush.
In the meantime, by all means, enjoy our years of past content,
all of which still remain in the public and subscription areas.
If you're looking for more current SL-related content, you can
have check out upcoming books from editor Heather Corinna and previous co-editor Hanne Blank, check out Heather's current sexuality sites, or explore sites through the femmerotic network. We hope to be back with you soon, as fresh, challenging and
unexpected as ever.
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