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Leah Makuch
Leah Makuch is a writer who loves practicing Taekwondo, taking
road trips, and running with scissors. She has a bachelor's degree
in English and teaches 9th grade writing. She also owns her own
business. Leah currently resides in Western Massachusetts with
her cat, guinea pig, parakeets, and fiance.
S.M. Mannix
S. M. Mannix quit his day job in the year 2000, at the age of
25, and started to learn about the business side of writing the
hard way. In 2001, he self-published "Greek Myths for Grown-ups: Apollo and Daphne", the first volume of an extensively researched compilation of
the Greek Myths with his own text and illustrations. Presently
he lives, and works, in a draughty little garret in his hometown
of Washington, D.C., where he is discovering that the literary
arts are dreadfully under-appreciated.
Jim Martin
Jim Martin is the product of life in the 21st century. He's abstract, he's
withdrawn, and he hides behind his computer. In short, he's just
like you.
S.F. Mayfair
S.F. Mayfair's stories appear in Erotic Travel Tales, Prometheus, and on various websites. She is coeditor, with Lisabet Sarai,
of the anthology Sacred Exchange. A native of Southern California, she now lives in western Washington
with her family.
Skian McGuire
Skian McGuire is a working-class Quaker leatherdyke who lives
in the wilds of Western Massachusetts with her dog pack, a collection
of motorcycles, and her partner of 19 years. Her work has appeared
in Black Petals, Best Bisexual Erotica 2, Best Lesbian Erotica 1999, 2001, and 2002, HLFQ, Nest O' Vipers webzine, and will soon be published in Suspect Thoughts.
Magdalene Meretrix
Magdalene Meretrix is a musician, textile artist, web designer and writer as well
as being a 17-years-and-counting veteran of the sex industry,
having worked the full range of the field from phone sex operator
to stripper to prostitute. Look for her new book, Turning Pro: A Guide to Sexwork for the Ambitious and the Intrigued from Greenery Press. For more info about Magdalene, check out
her website.
Elaine Miller
Elaine Miller is a friendly neighbourhood high femme dyke daddy
who has been learning, playing, topping, teaching, and writing
about BDSM and sex for over a decade. She does an embarrassing
number of things for a living. (Teaching. Writing. Make-up. Web
Designing. Web Hosting. Computer system balancing. Desktop Publishing.)
Elaine has edited Lezzie SMUT! magazine, and edited and published Diversity Magazine from 1995 - 1999. Her written work has been anthologised in Brazen Femme, Best Lesbian Erotica 2001, Best Lesbian Erotica
1998 , Best of Best Lesbian Erotica, The No SafeWord Anthology, and has appeared in On Our Backs, Paramour, Anything That Moves, Xtra West, and several local newspapers. She writes a regular column in
Xtra West called Slap and Tickle. Elaine has appeared on many radio shows in Vancouver as a local
sexpert, has performed in live queer women's sex shows (to rowdy
audiences of 400-- 600 women), and does drag king performance.
She occasionally organizes queer-only BDSM and sex parties, and
hosts pangender queer smut readings. She has not been bored since
puberty. http://elainemiller.com
Jenni Miller
Jenni Miller is another writer nibbling at the big apple.
Anna Mills
Anna Mills has written essays for Bitch: Feminist Response to Pop Culture, Moxie Magazine, SoapBoxGirls.com, Revolutionary Voices, Women's Encounters with the Mental Health Establishment, and The Lesbian Review of Books. She dreams of never leaving San Francisco, where she is still
working on an earnest program of queer, feminist, sex-positive,
gender-bending self-education.
Melvin Moten
After completing BAs in Journalism, Political Science, History
and Photography, Melvin bounced around the east coast, landing
back in Pittsburgh in 1997. In addition to taking lots of photographs,
he is an accomplished musician and songwriter, playing bass and
writing for several different Pittsburgh acts. His current projects
include a self-published book combining his own images, with the
poetry of several different writers. He has recently begun writing
music criticism as well as erotic fiction of his own. More of
his photographic work can be found at his sister sites melvinmoten.net and melvinmoten.com.
Judy Moses
Judy Moses is a twenty-year-old American mom living with her boyfriend and
adorable one year old daughter in the suburban outskirts of Paris,
France.
Jane Noel
Jane Noel lives and writes on Vancouver Island, Canada, right
by the edge of the Pacific Ocean. When she's not happily writing
smut or avoiding seagulls, she works undercover as a mild-mannered
office employee. Her personal fiction website is at www.eroticfriction.com.
Archer Parr
Archer Parr is a transgendered dandy, lapsed academic and experienced
sex toy peddler. An unrepentant know-it-all, he likes nothing
better than telling people what to do. Got a question for him?
Email him at asktheblowhard@yahoo.com.
PleaseCain
PleaseCain's fiction has appeared in the ezines Mind Caviar, Amoret, Ophelia's Muse, Sauce*Box, Journal of Desire,
Femmes Obscure, ShemaleYum, StoriesOnline, Crystal's Story Site,
Mr. Double, FictionMania, Kristen's Archives, Kerrie's Place,
Pollwatch's Erotic-Stories, John Dark Reposts, Andy's Erotic Stories,
Apuleius' StoryList and Old Joe's Collection, plus a winning story in the Dulcinea Memorial Festival -- http://members.aol.com/pleasecain.
Amanita Rand
Amanita Rand is a professional writer who lives in northern California.
This is her first attempt at literary erotica.
Leila Raven
Leila Raven (who uses the pseudonym Katt for online adventures)
is a lifelong seeker of hedonistic pleasure. In the process of
seeking this saangrael she has collected a BA and MA in psychology
and a BFA in printmaking. She has also done extensive study in
anthropology, philosophy, art, world religion, sexual practices,
and life style choices, and has both studied and taught martial
arts. In the course of her quest she has attained the companionship
of soul mates who come with various conventional and unconventional
labels attached. So far her theories on success involve the idea
that inspiring others to join the quest is central to the process.
Trying to subvert larger numbers to happiness through the use
of primal forces, she has experimented with co-creating www.erotimania.com and www.dominaction.com. Her other methods of induction to Nirvana at this time remain
top secret, though there are rumours of a number of other projects
underway.
Benn Ray
Benn Ray is a co-owner of Baltimore’s Atomic Books, where he peddles
literary finds for mutated minds. He is also the publisher of
the Baltimore-related ezine The MobTown Shank. For more information about either of these time-consuming labors
of love, visit www.atomicbooks.com.
Ann Regentin
Ann Regentin has written everything from reading comprehension
tests and reference material to poetry and music. Her erotica
has appeared in various places both online and in print as well
as to a select audience in her ninth grade biology class, which
is where she started writing steamy fiction. You can visit her
at her Web site at http://home.earthlink.net/~pabaillie/Home.htm.
Alexander Renault
Alexander Renault has had a life-long career in the mental health
field. He is living happily ever after in rural Pennsylvania
with his partner and their two Boston terriers. His work has
appeared in Mind Caviar, Ophelia's Muse and Velvet Mafia. Mr. Renault's story, "Chambers," will be included in the upcoming
anthology VILLAINS & VIXENS, published by M. Christian and Jamie Joy Gatto.
Cinthia Ritchie
Cinthia Ritchie lives in Alaska with her 11-year-old son, two
cats and hyper dog (she had fish, but thankfully they all died).
She's finishing up her MFA and writes a self-help romance column
for a weekly paper. Her fiction, poetry and creative nonfiction
publications include Clean Sheets, Dare Magazine, Girlphoria, Conspire, Mind Caviar,
Horse Thief's Journal, Retrozine, Ice Floe: International Poetry
of the Far North, Inside Passages and Sho, with upcoming work in Moist.
Cate Robertson
After years of self-pleasuring with her own smut, Cate Robertson
is edging her way out of the closet as a writer of literary erotica.
To conceal her identity as a teacher and writer of educational
materials, including a successful series of children's books,
she will not engage in full frontal exposure. Yet. Cate lives
in Canada with an accomplished handyman.
Dahlia Schweitzer
Dahlia Schweitzer is an artist, writer, and musician exploring
the issues of love, sex, and communication. Her most recent project,
Girl Gone Wild, documents an insider's look at the adult industry in words and
pictures. She is the publisher and editor of 5 sites: erotika.net (a personal journal), rockerchick.com (an online resource for women in music), getgalvanized.com (devoted to her band, Galvanized), controlNYC.com (her monthly party celebrating music and sex) and dahliaschweitzer.com. Her photographs have been exhibited in Connecticut and in New
York City, in solo and group shows from 1996 to the present. Schweitzer
studied at Wesleyan University, graduating with a double major
in English and Studio Arts in 1998. She currently lives in New
York City.
G. Scott
G. Scott is a New York City photographer who only began to pursue
his art 5 years ago. Much of his work utilizes the environment
of old industrial locations to highlight the human form. "I try
to highlight the beauty of the nude within the industrial environment.
While my models often expose themselves in intimate ways, I strive
to highlight their individual sexuality and eroticism." You can
follow G. Scott's development of his art through is online portfolio
at www.IndustrialErotica.com.
Michele Serchuk 
Michele Serchuk is currently Photography Associate for On Our Backs magazine, and & has been helping out now & then around Scarlet where she might sometimes answer if someone said, "Hey you over
there, Assistant Gallery Editor." She may be seen regularly in
On Our Backs, and Cupido (Denmark, Norway); her work has also appeared in Libido, Paramour, Girlfriends, SECRET and the SECRET Fetish Photo Anthology, D/S, Masquerade, Pucker Up, Bad Attitude, Prometheus, and The Spectator and as cover art on books published by St. Martin's Press, Virgin
Books, Masquerade, The Feminist Press and Haworth Press.
Seska
Seska is an independent sex worker, model and website publisher
who is regarded as one of the leaders in the amateur market online,
and who has a stellar combination of sincerity, cheek, candor
and ingenuity. She also webmasters the Femmerotic Portal. You can see her work at her two websites: http://www.seska.com and http://www.seska4lovers.com.
Helena Settimana
Helena Settimana is the pen name of a Toronto area artist, craft teacher and writer,
who was born in 1959 in the Niagara Region of Southern Ontario.
Many of her stories are autobiographical in nature, often dealing
with interracial relationships. She claims that this story, however,
is pure fiction. She shares a home with a husband and four feline
familiars. She has a website at: http://evilzz.net/hsettimana
Silke Shackleton
Silke Shackleton is an American expatriate living in Germany.
Sharona
Sharona is a Jewish feminist San Franciscan with an almost incurable
impulse to analyze everything half-to-death. She refuses to take
sex too seriously.
Sean Simmans
Sean Simmans currently resides in Calgary, Alberta. If his south-westward
trend continues at this rate, he should own a nice hovel in Laos
by April 2009. "But I don't think they manufacture BIG ROCK beer
in Asia, so maybe I will stay put." Sean likes that there are
buildings taller than four stories in Calgary. Between panhandling
and stealing shopping carts from SAFEWAY, Sean still finds time
to make pictures. "Anything to support my meth habit. By the way,
the three above-mentioned companies might want to e-mail me some
cash because I gave all of them a nice big plug."
Ariel Meadow Stallings
Ariel Meadow Stallings is a freelance word whore living underneath
three enormous radio towers in Seattle. Read more at www.arielmeadow.com.
C.E. Staples
C.E. Staples lives in Massachusetts. Her works have appeared
in African Voices, Clean Sheets, flashquake and The Rose and Thorn Quarterly.
Jean Marie Stine
Jean Marie Stine is woman-identified, femme-identified, and lesbian-identified.
She says of herself that her "weakness for butches is celebrated
from coast-to-coast." Her work has appeared in such diverse publications
as Lesbanation, Amazing Stories, Nest O'Vipers, the Washington Post,
Suspect Thoughts and Transgender Tapestry. Recent books include Double Your Brain Power (Prentice-Hall, 1997), which much to her surprise was a selection
of several book clubs, and the erotic sci-fi novel Season of the Witch (Masquerade, 1995), which was filmed as Synapse with Karen Duffy. Jean Marie, as she prefers to be called, recently
resigned her position as Director of Publications for the International
Foundation for Gender Education to concentrate on the political
side of the struggle for queer rights, and on her own writing
efforts.
Jolan Sulinski
Jolan Sulinski is a Detroiter, returned Peace Corps volunteer,
grad school dropout, raconteur. She iis currently doing forest
research in the western mountains of Maine. She is unsurprised
to find writing erotica immensely more rewarding than writing
a master’s thesis.
Elizabeth M. Tamny
Elizabeth M. Tamny is a diastematic buxom blonde Chicagoanwho reads voraciously
and publishes a nifty little 'zine called Gastrolater. She is still on the hunt for the big-girl-lovin' Anglophile
cat-person male who can give as good as he gets and thinks season
tix to the Chicago Lyric aren't an extravagance, but rather on
a par with groceries and cat food.
Vinnie Tesla
Vinnie Tesla generally prefers sex to coffee. An archive of his
stories is at http://www.asstr.org/~vinnie_tesla/
Lisa Tessendorf
Lisa Tessendorf is a radical, fat, sex and kink-positive Femme
dyke poet, living in Seattle with an enormous wig collection and
her cat, Lady Annabell. Her work appears onstage in shows highlighting
the value of queer women's sexual identities and the beauty of
gender fluidity.
Jason Toney
Jason Toney works in reality television but lives in a fantasy
world. Unfortunately, even in his fantasy world he's not gettin'
any. He maintains a little piece of the web called negroplease.com. You can catch glimpses inside his mind there.
Anne Tourney 
Anne Tourney has been writing erotic fiction for almost ten years. Her stories
have appeared in the Best American Erotica and Best Women's Erotica series, Zaftig: Well-Rounded Erotica, Embraces: Dark Erotica, The Unmade
Bed, Clean Sheets, Scarlet Letters, and Slow Trains. She has published dark fantasy and horror in Dark Regions, Dark Testament, and Suspect Thoughts.
Becky Tuch
Becky Tuch is a freelance writer living in Somerville. Her work
has appeared in Oatmeal Sudios and Cleansheets.com. She was born in Brooklyn in 1980.
Nicholas Urfé
Nicholas Urfé lives in the Pacific Northwest with a Spouse and
the requisite two cats. He has written a handful of short stories
and the occasional chapter of two peripatic serials, and also
keeps a daily journal under the rubric "...inexplicably fancy trash."
Jackie Walker
Jackie Walker is a member of the African-American Writers Guild Workshop. She
has been a participant in the Jenny McKean Moore Community Fiction
Workshop at George Washington University and various workshops
at the Writer's Center in Bethesda, Maryland. She lives and loves
in Chocolate City (aka Washington DC).
Sarah L. Walters
Sarah L. Walters is a writer and editor living in Brooklyn, NY.
She can often be found attempting to manage a bookstore in Manhattan.
Her previous work has appeared in Clean Sheets and Synapse. She can be reached at dragonfly020@hotmail.com.
Carolyn Weltman
Carolyn Weltman is an artist, digital artist and poet from the
British Isles, who left her home in North Wales to travel to the
United States about twenty three years ago. Five years ago, she
abandoned her very sensible career and her very sensible suit
and returned to her childhood to follow her dream of becoming
an artist. You can see more of her work at her website, here:
http://www.artforengineers.com.
Andrew L. Wilson
Andrew L. Wilson lives in Cambridge, Massachusetts, where he works
as a writer, editor and teacher. He holds a Ph.D. in English literature
from Boston College, and attended the Boston University Creative
Writing Program. He has won over a half dozen awards for his literary
writing andpublished over fifty poems, essays and short stories
in some of the most respected publications in print and on the
Web. He edits Linnaean Street and co-edits the critically acclaimed site, Gargoyle: Arts & Letters on the Web.
Lisa Wolfe
Lisa Wolfe's work is published on-line at brilliantsmut.com and in the anthology Best Women’s Erotica 2002. Writing erotica is the most fun she’s ever had with a laptop.
She lives and writes in the San Francisco Bay Area.
Wynn
Born in Germany on August the 13th 1963, Wynn has studied social
work at a Catholic college, and fell in love with photography
in 2001. She uses it to transform her own thoughts and dreams,
and is interested in the human body and its erotic presentation
since she is conscious of her own sexuality. She feels that to
catch intimate details, forbidden games and secret desires is
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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
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