NAIRNE HOLTZ is the author of This One’s Going to Last Forever, a finalist for the Lambda Literary Award and The Skin Beneath, which won the Alice B. Lesbian Debut Fiction Award and made the shortlist for Quebec’s McAuslan First Book Prize.
THEDA HUDSON is a writer and spiritual advisor living in Colorado with two semi-feral cats, a thousand books and a Mary Poppins outfit complete with a toy bag she’s not afraid to use. Her work will appear in M. Christian’s Best S/M 3 anthology.
Editor of The Sweetest Kiss and the Lambda Literary Award Finalist, Where the Girls Are, D. L. KING’s short stories can be found in Best Lesbian Erotica, Best Women’s Erotica, Girl Crazy and Broadly Bound, among others. She’s published two novels and edits the erotica review site, Erotica Revealed. Find her at dlkingerotica.com.
KIRSTY LOGAN lives in Glasgow with her very own bitch goddess warrior queen. Kirsty writes at the Rumpus, Filthy Gorgeous Things, the Moose & Pussy, Oysters and Chocolate and in Girl Crush. She enjoys coffee cupcakes and sticking pins in maps. Get in touch at kirstylogan.com.
CATHERINE LUNDOFF is the author of Crave: Tales of Lust, Love and Longing and Night’s Kiss: Lesbian Erotica and editor of Haunted Hearths and Sapphic Shades: Lesbian Ghost Stories. She is the coeditor, with JoSelle Vanderhooft, of Hellebore and Rue: Tales of Queer Women and Magic and teaches writing classes at The Loft Literary Center. Website: visi.com/~clundoff.
KENZIE MATHEWS lives in Alaska and works at a public library. She paints landscapes, cooks, and walks her dogs when not writing.
GISELLE RENARDE is a proud Canadian, supporter of the arts and activist for women’s and LGBT rights. For information on Giselle and her work, visit her website at gisellerenarde.webs.com.
SINCLAIR SEXSMITH runs the personal online writing project Sugarbutch Chronicles: The Sex, Gender, and Relationship Adventures of a Kinky Queer Butch Top at sugarbutch. net. Publications include: Best Lesbian Erotica, Sometimes She Lets Me: Butch/Femme Erotica and Visible: A Femmethology Volume 2. Sinclair also facilitates workshops on sex, gender and relationships.
RENÉE STRIDER has published fiction in the Erotic Interludes series, Fantasy, Read These Lips, Best Lesbian Love Stories: Summer Flings, Toe to Toe, Khimairal Ink and Girl Crazy. She has lived throughout the United States and in the Netherlands and now resides in Canada.
XAN WEST is the pseudonym of a New York City BDSM/sex educator. Xan’s “First Time Since,” won honorable mention for the 2008 NLA John Preston Short Fiction Award. Xan appears in Best SM Erotica 2 and 3, Best Women’s Erotica 2008 and 2009, Hurts So Good and Daddies. Email Xan at Xan_West@yahoo.com.
ABOUT THE EDITORS
KATHLEEN WARNOCK is a playwright, fiction writer and editor. Her erotica has appeared (under the name Kyle Walker) in Best Lesbian Erotica, A Woman’s Touch and Friction 7. Her other fiction, essays and reviews have been seen in ROCKRGRL, BUST, Ms., Metal Maidens, It’s Only Rock and Roll, Gargoyle, American Book Review, New Directions for Women and the liner notes for the Joan Jett CD Unfinished Business. Her plays have been produced in New York, the United Kingdom and regionally. Rock the Line was produced by Emerging Artists Theatre in New York and won the Robert Chesley Award for Emerging Playwright. Grieving for Genevieve won the John Golden Award for Playwriting. Some Are People won the Arts & Letters Award for Drama. She is curator of the Robert Chesley/ Jane Chambers Playwrights Project for TOSOS Theater, and Playwrights Company Manager for Emerging Artists Theater. She is Ambassador of Love for the International Dublin Gay Theatre Festival and a member of the Dramatists Guild.
LEA DELARIA is a jazz musician, Broadway diva, actor, writer and stand-up comic. Her first jazz album was Play It Cool. Her second, Double Standards, debuted on the Billboard Jazz Chart at #6. The first openly gay comic to appear on national television in the United States (“Arsenio Hall,” 1993), she has toured the world with her one-of-a-kind blend of cool jazz and in-your-face comedy. Lea has recorded two comedy albums and developed specials for HBO, Showtime, Comedy Central, CBC, WNBC and Channel 4 UK. She has appeared on daytime and primetime TV and on many talk shows. Her film credits include The First Wives Club and Sgt. Bilko. Lea made an acclaimed Broadway debut in The Public Theater’s revival of On the Town. She returned to Broadway to play “Eddie” and “Dr. Scott” in The Rocky Horror Show. Her latest CD, The Live Smoke Sessions, landed her on the Grammy ballot in 2009. Her book, Lea’s Book of Rules for the World, is currently in its third printing.
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Copyright © 2010 by Kathleen Warnock. Introduction copyright © 2010 by Lea DeLaria.
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“Carried Away in Santa Fe” by Charlotte Dare originally appeared on Oystersandchocolate. com; “Little Lou” is an excerpt from Gala Strip, a novel by Gala Fur (La Musardine, Paris); an earlier version of “Most Valuable Player” by Nairne Holtz was published in Delicate Friction (Bullock Publications); “Tree Hugger” by Catherine Lundoff originally appeared in Women in Uniform: Medics and Soldiers and Cops, Oh My! (Regal Crest Books); “Painted Nails and Puppy Dog Tails” by Giselle Renarde originally appeared in Lesbian Love (Xcite e-Books); a shorter version of “The Stripper and the Butch Wannabe” by Renée Strider appeared in the online anthology readtheselips.com.