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Rahne Alexander  
Rahne Alexander is a recent transplant to Baltimore from Santa
Cruz, California. A writer, activist, and troublemaker nonpareil,
she writes a regular column called ars erotica, which she describes
as "The continuing saga of a foxy trannygirl who is theoretically
looking for a good time."
Tara Alton
Tara Alton’s erotica has appeared in Best Women’s Erotica, Guilty Pleasures, Clean Sheets and Scarlet Letters. She lives in the Midwest, collects tattoos, worships Betty Page
and writes erotica, because that is what is in her head, and it
needs to come out. Currently, she is completing her first short
story collection. Her website can be found at http://www.angelfire.com/celeb2/tara_alton/.
Evelyn Augusto
Evelyn Augusto lives in the woods of Connecticut with her family
and friends: her five dogs, five cats, peacock, sheep, and defiant
chicken. She enjoys communal living, and earns her income by growing
lovely gardens for other people and works for a large landscape
firm. She wrote her first poem at age six about snow. She believes
that Edna St. Vincent Millay has taken up residence in her more
than accommodating body and hopes the muse never abandons her.
Rachel Barenblat
Rachel Barenblat has a poetic license (in the form of an MFA) and she's not afraid
to use it. She's co-founder of Inkberry, a literary arts center
in the Berkshires; find them online at www.inkberry.org. Her writing has appeared in Phoebe, The Jewish Women's Literary Annual, andThe Guide to Jewish Interfaith Family Life, among others. Her second poetry chapbook, What Stays, will be published in spring 2002 by the Bennington Writing Seminars
Alumni Chapbook Series. She lives in western Massachusetts with
her husband and their cat.
Todd Belton
Todd Belton is a writer by avocation and a hacker by necessity.
He lives and writes in the wilds of Greater Boston, and comments
on sex and gender news regularly at http://www.mouthorgan.com/.
Jennifer Bennett
Jennifer Bennett is currently a student in the MFA Program at
Antioch University Los Angeles. She received her undergraduate
degree in Art History and Writing from Smith College, where she
founded and edited The Siren, a literary and arts journal funded by the Lesbian and Bisexual
Student Association. Her graduate thesis, Drive-By Essays, is a collection that explores the connections between driving
and identity. She is a writer whose hobbies include working as
a college administrator, aka the resident book maven at a small
college bookstore in rural Ohio.
L.E. Bland
L.E. Bland is an Alabama native and current resident of Texas. She writes
non-fiction and fiction inspired by her bisexual adventures in
the bdsm scene and in the world of professional perversion. Her
work has appeared in Scarlet Letters, Faster Pussycats (Alyson), and Shameless: An Intimate Erotica (Seal). She also has a story forthcoming in Back to Basics, a Butch/Femme Erotic Journey (Bella Books). She has acted in three erotic films under Passion
Fruit Productions. Read more about her work at http://www.fleurdelisrouge.com. In her free time, she practices the art of Middle Eastern dance
and indulges in exotic European cheeses.
Hanne Blank 
Hanne Blank's Hanne Blank's work as a writer, editor, and educator includes
Shameless: Women’s Intimate Erotica (Seal Press), Best Transgender Erotica (with Raven Kaldera, Circlet Press), Zaftig: Well Rounded Erotica (Cleis Press), Big Big Love: A Sourcebook on Sex for People of Size and Those
Who Love Them (Greenery Press), the groundbreaking book on body size and sexuality
described by one reviewer as "...the perfect balance between expertise
and humor... American sex-book-ese at its best." Co-editor of
the award-winning sexuality websites Scarletletters.com and Scarleteen.com and former associate editor of Sojourner: The Women's Forum, she is also a columnist, essayist, and fiction writer whose
work has been featured in venues ranging from the Boston Phoenix, Santa Fean Magazine, Lilith Magazine, and Bitch: Feminist Response to Pop Culture to Best American Erotica and Yentl’s Revenge. Hanne Blank lives in the Baltimore area with houseplants, cats,
and spouse, and travels frequently to speak, read, educate, instigate,
and generally get into all kinds of trouble. Find her, and her
schedule of public appearances, online at www.hanne.net.
Tara K. Bloom
Tara K. Bloom's writing has been included in Sex and Single Girls: Straight and Queer Women Write About Sexuality
and has received other bright shiny things. She lives and works
in Chicago where she lives with shamelessly needy pets and fulfills
the requirements of Maslow's hierarchy by being a parasite in
the entrails of capitalism.
Ralph Bravo
Ralph Bravo lives in the New York of Canada, where he sublimates sexual desire by pursuing emotional
and physical risks--love and rock climbing. His partner in lust
and love is diminutive in body, big in heart, and engages in flights
of fantasy that rock their world. Ralph has worked with viable
members of the Canadian Canon and attends readings of non-erotic
writers.
Debra Boxer
Debra Boxer is a writer from New Jersey currently living in Seattle.
Her work has appeared in Best American Erotica 2000, Nerve, Clean Sheets, Moxie, Publisher's
Weekly, San Francisco Chronicle and The Daily Record of New Jersey. She writes non-fiction, fiction, poetry and book reviews. Next
year her work will appear in the anthologies Best American Erotica 2002 and Archetypes of the Collective Unconscious.
Tenille Brown
Tenille Brown is a part-time student majoring in English. She
is working on her first novel tentatively titled, "Birth of the
Woman." She has several short stories published the erotic E-zine,
Kuma and her short story, "Midnight Letter to Fran," will be featured in the anthology, Flava, to be released in 2003.
Tulsa Brown
Tulsa Brown is an award-winning Canadian author who crossed genre
lines in the middle of the night, and is having too much fun to
go back. In 2004 her work will appear in Best Women's Erotica, Leather, Lace and Lust, the International
Journal of Erotica and Clean Sheets.
Rachel Kramer Bussel
Rachel Kramer Bussel is a New York-based freelance writer focusing
on sexuality and popular culture. She is the reviser of The Lesbian Sex Book, co-author of The Erotic Writer's Market Guide, and co-editor of lesbian erotica anthology Up All Night, and writes a monthly erotic gossip column at www.erotica-readers.com. Her writing has also been published in AVN, AVN Online, Bust, Cleansheets.com, Curve, Diva, Gay City
News, Girlfriends, New York Blade, On Our Backs, Oxygen.com, Playgirl,
Rockrgrl, Technodyke.com, The San Francisco Chronicle, Velvet
Park, as well as numerous erotic anthologies including Starf*cker, Best Lesbian Erotica 2001, Best Women's Erotica 2003,
Burned Into Memory, Faster Pussycats, My Lover, My Friend, Tough
Girls, and Hot & Bothered 3. Find out more at www.rachelkramerbussel.com
Syd Candler
Syd Candler is a professional freelance writer whose erotic work
has appeared in Prometheus and Venus or Vixen. She welcomes feedback and can be reached at sydcandler@yahoo.com
Jaime Carrera
Jaime Carrera was born and raised in Juarez, Mexico. At 17, he
and his family moved to Kansas, where he finished high school
and learned to develop and print film in a community college course.
He is a primarily self-taught artist who has never studied formally.
Carrera now lives and works in Minneapolis, where he had his first
solo show at the flatland gallery in 2002, and later that same
year he began performing with Dykes Do Drag. Besides visual and
performance work, he is currently working on a compilation of
music, planned for release later this year. Jaime can be reached
via email at: photojaime@hotmail.com.
M. Christian
M. Christian's work can be seen in such anthologies as Best American Erotica, Best Gay Erotica, The Mammoth Book of Short
Erotic Novels, and the magazines Anything that Moves, Batteries Not Included, and Black Sheets. The editor of Eros Ex Machina, Guilty Pleasures, Midsummer Night's Dreams, and
Rough Stuff (with Simon Sheppard), he also writes for gothic.net. He is a
stimulus junkie who lives in San Francisco in a tastefully appointed
apartment full of books, toys, anime, and a convertible futon
couch that could tell some highly interesting stories. He grins
when using the word "pornographer" and enjoys the company of operatically
noisy women.
Donna Clancy-Goertz
Over the last eight years Donna Clancy-Goertz has done commercial work, shot some weddings, and exhibited her
personal work in group galleries throughout southern Texas. It
is her personal work where she truly expresses herself. It is
her approach that she feels has led to her success, as she relates:
"I try to pull out of the model what he or she is feeling and
then tie that into my vision of them. They are both the instrument
of my expression and part of the process. It is important to me
that they feel like art. That they feel that they are as beautiful
as I see them.". Her work incorporates a lot of fetish and bondage
elements. She loves the aesthetic of shiny clothing and the joy
of tying her models up.
Eli Clare
Eli Clare is a poet, essayist, rabble-rouser, and the author of Exile and Pride: Disability, Queerness, and Liberation (South End Press).
R.M. Conroy
R.M. Conroy is a medical scientist, piano player, speaker of an
essentially dead language, and, in his old age, dada to a wonderful
boy.
Geoff Cordner
Geoff Cordner was born in 1960 in Tripoli, Libya to a French mother
and an American father. He was raised in Libya, Canada and Egypt
before moving to the United States in 1978. He began taking photos
in the late '70's and early '80's, initially for use in silk-screened
posters for Austin, Texas punk bands and later for various punk
fanzines. He lived and worked in Los Angeles from 1985-1988, and
from 1989 through 1994 was based in Milan, Italy. He returned
to Los Angeles in 1994 and took a 3 year hiatus before returning
to photography in 1997. He currently resides in Los Angeles.
Heather Corinna
Heather Corinna is the pansexual founder and Editor of Scarlet Letters and Scarleteen.
Her written and photographic work have appeared in On Our Backs, Michelle7, Janesguide, Toys in Babeland, Maxi, SoapboxGirls and CleanSheets amongst others, in her sex information columns at Technodyke, Satin Slippers and (the now departed) Chickclick, and in Viscera, The Adventures of Food, Aqua Erotica, Zaftig: An Anthology of Well-Rounded Erotica, The Mammoth Book
of Best New Erotica (1&2), Shameless: An Intimate Erotica and Penthouse magazine. Her work in sexuality has hailed accolades from The Industry Standard to the Illinois Library Association, The City Pages to Playboy, and from the Utne Reader to the Kinsey Institute. She lives in the treetops of uptown
Minneapolis with small pug, several cats and loads of sex toys
and has performed the medical miracle of living for over 30 years
on the three C's: coffee, cigarettes and chutzpah. Her first solo
book, a young adult sex information guide, is forthcoming from
Cleis Press in 2005.
Mary Davies
Mary Davies was born in New Orleans, grew up in Halifax, Nova
Scotia, and has lived in the Boston area for seventeen years.
She has been a featured reader at Women Reading at the Arlington
St. Church (formerly at Crone's Harvest) in Boston, A Night of
Women Poets at the Brookline Booksmith in Brookline, Gender Crash
at Spontaneous Celebrations in Boston, and has read on "Out of
Print", an on-air queer literary magazine on WMBR Radio in Cambridge.
Her work has appeared in Common Lives, Lesbian Lives and Field, and she writes a column for www.butchdykeboy.com called "Notes From a Comfortable Shoes Femme". She is currently
working on a novel.
Sabrina Dent
Sabrina Dent is the first woman in her family for three generation to not be
published in print; as such, her various claims to Internet fame
hold no water with her mother. She is the Editor of Satin Slippers by day and by night, and a web designer on occasional afternoons.
She lives with her delightful partner and does her best to help
London maintain its legendary status as The Big Smoke via conspicuous
consumption of cigarettes. As an American ex-pat, she may have
misunderstood this term.
Marie Drennan
After falling in love with Darth Vader at the age of seven, Marie
Drennan has gone on to suffer various degrees of lust for many
other alien love-machines: Mr. Spock, Q, and Centauri Ambassador
Londo Mollari. Her non-alien sexy fiction can be found on www.sliptongue.com.
Sidney Durham
Sidney E. Durham lives in central Texas, where he intends to stay.
He is happiest when writing, and when he isn't writing, he isn't.
Mr. Durham's work has appeared in Mind Caviar, Ophelia's Muse, the Erotica Readers and Writers Association,
Dare Ezine, JaneZine, the Blowfish Update, Adult Story Corner, and Peacock Blue; and Renaissance E Books has published three anthologies of his
stories in ebook form, one of which was nominated for the Franklin
eBook 2000 award. Durham also had a story in the spring 2001 issue
of Blue Food, and another of his stories was selected for Maxim Jakubowski's
prestigious The Mammoth Book Of Best New Erotica anthology, published in September, 2001.
Jolie du Pré
Jolie du Pré's erotica has appeared in Hot & Bothered 4: Short Short Fiction on Lesbian Desire and on the Internet, including the Galleries of the Erotica Readers
and Writers Association.
Norm Edwards
Norm Edwards is a photographer and web designer living in Montreal, Canada.
Before becoming a photographer, he was a business manager in the
auto industry and owner of several businesses. He served as a
radio operator in the Canadian Armed Forces, and has also acted
and danced in various theatre groups and films. Norm is currently
working on a book called One Woman, One Sheet, an exciting body of work that features a delightful variety
of female subjects of diverse shapes, sizes, ages and colors.
James Elliott
James Elliott is a designer currently residing in Denver, Colorado.
He lives with the cutest dog in existence and runs a website that
keeps him busy until he can successfully club himself a husband.
He welcomes feedback and tokens of affection, and can be reached
at jhames@yahoo.com
Stephen Elliott
Stephen Elliott is the author of the novels What It Means To Love You, A Life Without Consequences, and Jones Inn. He has also been published on Salon.com, The Sun, and the San
Francisco Bay Guardian. More of his work is available at http://www.stephenelliott.com.
Misha Ferer
Misha Ferer was born in 1979 in Simbirsk, Russia. He has since
lived in England, New York, and Israel, where he served in the
Defense Force. Three years of enforced isolation in the Negev
Desert, gave him the opportunity to become self-taught in the
literature of five continents. Ferer currently resides in Oakland,
Calif., but who knows where else he will travel. Though Ferer
has been writing since the age of seven, he has only recently
begun submitting his work for publication.
Angie Reed Garner
Angie Reed Garner paints, and then blogs about it, and then paints
some more--read and see her here. At this point she has moved so much that she's a citizen of
the world. She tries real hard to find drum circles, where she
can dance all the kinks loose, and good political conversation.
Her life is rounded out by doting on her spoiled three-year old
German shepherd (Heathcliff) and her even more spoiled, but occasionally
useful, partner (Stefan).
Maura H.
Maura H. borrowed the name of the first girl she ever had a crush
on, then used her knowledge of Pascal to escape her nearly native
Southern suburb for an Ivy League school. There she mingled with
rich kids, hippies, and fellow geeks, but didn't really find her
place in the world until she moved to the West Coast and discovered
herds of perverts roaming free. She is married to a put-upon woman,
writes code for a living, and has 1.0 child.
Chris Hall
Chris Hall is a San Francisco writer who spends his time planning
to do everything his mother warned him about. He also maintains
his own web page and a sex-positive bulletin board, Sexual Realities. Email him at chall72@yahoo.com.
P.S. Haven
P.S. Haven was raised on comic books, Star Wars and his dad’s
Playboy collection, all of which he still enjoys to this day.
His work has been published at Clean Sheets and Peacock Blue as
well as in Taboo: Forbidden Fantasies for Couples, edited by Violet Blue. Haven peddles his smut from deep in the
Bible Belt, where he lives with his wife and daughter.
Philip Hickey
Philip Hickey lives in New Jersey. In addition to writing, he
enjoys painting, photography and acting. Philip is currently writing
novel which he plans to complete sometime during 2003.
Caitlin Hopkins
Caitlin Hopkins is an essayist most noted for her transsexual
information site www.road-less-traveled.com and can often be found kvetching on www.catatwaldenpond.com. She currently resides in Seattle.
Debra Hyde
Debra Hyde is best known for her website, Pursed Lips, but her fiction has appeared in many publications with upcoming
stories in Best Women’sErotica 2001, Herotica 7, and Zaftig: Well-Rounded
Erotica. She is co-editor, with Dominic Santi, of Strange Bedfellows(Xlibris.com) and author of Resurrection: An S/M Love Story (Pink Flamingo Publications). She lives a quiet New England existence,
except when screaming in wild abandon most Saturday nights.
Amanda A. Gannon
Amanda Gannon is a writer, illustrator, belly-dancer, and snake-wrangler.
She lives in Oklahoma with her many pets, several piercings, and
one tattoo.
Gwynne Garfinkle
Gwynne Garfinkle lives in Los Angeles. She is a fiction writer,
poet, essayist, and rock critic. Her work has appeared in such
publications as Gynomite: Fearless Feminist Porn, Big Bridge, Exquisite Corpse,
Lummox Journal, Papertiger, Fish Drum, The American Voice, Loca, and the Los Angeles New Times.
R. Gay
R. Gay R. Gay has been perversely thrilled by her own writing for many
a year. In her free time she enjoys indulging in her fascination
with pre-packaged condiments, first-aid kits, and anything miniature.
For more insight into all things R-related, you can find her work
in Best American Erotica 2004, Best Lesbian Erotica 2002 and 2003,
Shameless: An Intimate Erotica, Best Transgender Erotica, Best
Bisexual Women's Erotica, Sweet Life and others.
Sacchi Green
Sacchi Green exercises her libidinous imagination in western Massachusetts
and the mountains of New Hampshire. "Of Dark and Bright" appeared
in Best Lesbian Erotica 2001. Other stories can be found in Best Lesbian Erotica for 1999 through 2003 as well as in Best Women's Erotica for 2001 and 2002, Best Transgender Erotica, and an assortment of other anthologies with inspirational covers
and colons in the titles, including Zaftig: Well-Rounded Erotica, Wet: More Aqua Erotica, Bedroom Eyes: Stories of Lesbians in the Boudoir, and Shameless: Womens Intimate Erotica. Her alter ego, Connie Wilkins, has an e-book collection of science
fiction and fantasy erotica called Wild Flesh available from Jintsu E-texts.
Matti Jackson
Matti Jackson writes fiction in Tasmania, where he lives with
his partner and two of their three children. His work has been
published in "SauceBox" and on CleanSheets, Thermoerotic and PinkFlamingo.
He can be contacted at mijackwriting@hotmail.com.
August Jacobs
August Jacobs has begun, but not finished, a historical novel,
a dissertation, a murder mystery and many essays and short stories.
Finishing erotica, like finishing sex, seems to come easier to
him. Other pieces that he's finished may be found on Salon.com,
Popcultures.com and in alternative newspapers. He lives in the
Shenandoah Valley with his two daughters, some lovely rose bushes
and a mountain view.
Lynne Jamneck
Lynne Jamneck hails from the part of South Africa with the most
beautiful girls (Cape Town), and thus finds no shortage of inspiration
for writing. She says: "Have been writing since the age of thirteen,
and have made peace with the fact that there is nothing else I
can or want to do. Some of my other aspirations include directing
a movie, having a cabin in the Canadian Rockies to share with
my partner of the past four years, Heidi - and possibly having
Ellen over for tea."
Laura Jent
Laura Jent has been writing poetry for five years, and has only
recently begun submission to different online and print magazines.
She is a member of several online poetry workshops to improve
her craft and help others, and is currently writing a series of
poetry entitled We Grow Like Trees, about women and women's issues.
Jianda Johnson
Jianda Johnson is a staunch, radical “lusciousist, loverist and
compassionist.” She has written, recorded and videotaped interviews,
prose, features, reviews and interviews for websites such as MP3.com, ChickClick, SonicNet, B-gyrl.com, ScarletLetters, CleanSheets,
RollingStone.com, SonicNet, Africana.com and GoGirlsmusic.com. She sings. Guitars. Writes screenplays and songs. Mouthsful.
Currently, she is a an editor and contributor at RollingStone.com, EMusic.com and MP3.com and does promo and A&R for artists of all stripes. Passion Flower
is her drug of choice. Sample her wares at SugarMamaPR.com and Jianda.net.
kris t. kahn
kris t. kahn's poetry has appeared in The Cortland Review, Naked Poetry, Stirring,
and various other journals. His chapbook, the Gospel according
to Thomas, was published by 2River View and is also available
online at http://2river.org/. kris is co-founder/co-editor of the online poetry journal SOMETIMES CITY. He lives in New Jersey.
Raven Kaldera
Raven Kaldera is an intersexual transgendered FTM activist, organic farmer,
parent, shaman, pagan minister, safe SM teacher, whose writings
are scattered hither and yon. His hobby is tilting at erotic windmills.
'Tis an ill wind that blows no minds.
Ryan Kamstra
Ryan Kamstra is a poet/writer/folk musician. He has put out an
album (2001, aLL fALL dOWN) and a book of poetry (2002 lATE cAPITALIST
sUBLIME). More recently he has published with Problem Child, Filling Station, Clean Sheets, Velvet Mafia, Blue
Food, Shades Beyond Gray, Suspect Thoughts, nth position and the anthologies 100 Poets Against the War, Common Sky: Canadian Poets Against
the War, and Career Suicide.
Kore
likes to play with myth and dreams and the erotic. Play in her
dreams. Visit http://www.fairytail.com
P.T. Krys
P.T. Krys has more personas than credit cards in his wallet --
author of articles, poetry, and fiction appearing in publications
ranging from Black Mountain Review to Clean Sheets and Advertising Age; singer/songwriter; former guitarist with New York punk band,
Karyn Satin and the Bedsheets; director/ producer/author of over 20 independent theatre productions;
high-tech guerrilla marketeer. He is married, with a ten-year-old
daughter acutely aware of most all his shortcomings, and never
hesitant to let him know it.
Astrid L
Astrid L is an Australian writer living in France who has had short stories
published in a variety of countries and magazines all over the
world. She has published erotica in Mind Caviar and Ophelia's
Muse, and is currently working on an erotic cookbook with stories
to complement her delicious recipes. Visit Astrid L's Pages at
http://ezfish.net/astridl
B. Labouyi
Scars are usually seen as a sign of injury, but on a greater level
they represent overcoming trauma. A majority of Labouyi's art
deals with a theme of disease and injury and how these change
a person's perception of his own body. The scars in these photos
are subtle: you'll have to search to notice them in most cases,
but you'll also find they aren't brushed out, as in the frightening
majority of mainstream photos published today. He is deeply frightened
when he hears a person admiring a photograph with that I-want-to-look-like-this
voice, when the photograph they admire has been so retouched that
the model doesn't even have pores in her skin. He feels we're
setting up a truly unattainable standard of beauty when we glamorize
the elimination of every wee mark on the body.
Lisa Link
Lisa Link hails from Dublin, OH, where she lives with her glorious fiancée,
and two very pampered little cats. Like most other smart, sexy
women, Lisa is a portrait of raging dichotomies by many people's
standards; at one moment, she is almost Martha Stewart-esque in
her domesticity, while at another, she can astound you by breaking
multiple boards with her hands and feet. A highly varied writer,
Lisa pens everything from poetic smut to reviews of makeup and
body products. In addition to Scarletletters, you can find her work online at CleanSheets, Sudsreport.com, and cosmeticconnection.com.
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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
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