Best of the Best Lesbian Erotica (42 page)

 

RENITA MARTIN
is a Boston-based writer, performance artist, student, and teacher whose work has appeared in
Does Your Mama Know?
,
Best Lesbian Erotica 1997
, and
Ma Ka: Diasporic Juk
. She has traveled nationally touring “Rhythm Visions Never Do Be Finished,” a choreopoem based on her poetry book of the same title. She is founder/director of Rhythm Visions, a nonprofit devoted to producing significant works by artists of color. She is a playwriting MFA candidate at Brandeis University.

 

ELAINE MILLER
lives in Vancouver, Canada with her yummy lover and her ever-expanding cat collection (the Writer's Mews). Among other strange things, she has edited
Lezzie Smut
, owned/ published
Diversity Magazine
, and is now working on editing a queer erotica and photo anthology,
Fusion
. Currently she is harder at work on her editing than her writing, and expects that to change as soon as she has a free moment.

 

PEGGY MUNSON
is editor of
Stricken: Voices from a Hidden Epidemic
, and has won fellowships from the MacDowell Colony, the Ragdale Foundation, and Cottages at Hedgebrook. Her work has been published in three of the
Best Lesbian Erotica
books,
On Our Backs
,
Hers3
,
Literature and Medicine
, and
San Francisco Bay Guardian
. She's currently working on a collection of poetry and one of short stories, and fighting for the rights of people with CFIDS.

 

LETTA NEELY
is a black dyke living in Boston. She has written two chapbooks and one book of poetry,
Juba
(Wildheart Press). Her work has been included in the anthologies
Catch the Fire
and
Does Your Mama Know?
.

 

LINDA L. NELSON
is a freelance editor and writer, and the CEO for a NYC-based technology consulting firm. She and her lover, Judith Jerome, have recently purchased a historic, circa 1912 Opera House in Stonington, Maine, which they and partners will run as a nonprofit, community-based performance organization, Opera House Arts (
www.operahousearts.org
).

 

JOAN NESTLE
co-founded the Lesbian Herstory Archives which now fills a three-story building in Brooklyn. She is the author of
A Fragile Union
and
A Restricted Country
and editor of
The Persistent Desire
. She is co-editor with Naomi Holoch of
Worlds Unspoken: An Anthology of International Lesbian Fiction
and the
Women on Women
lesbian fiction series. With John Preston, she co-edited
Sister and Brother: Lesbians and Gay Men Write About Their Lives Together
.

 

CAROL QUEEN
is an widely published writer of erotic fiction, essays, and sex information. She has a doctorate in human sexuality from The Institute for the Advanced Study of Human Sexuality. She is the author of
The Leather Daddy and the Femme
,
Exhibitionism for the Shy
, and
Real Live Nude Girl
. She co-edited
Sex Spoken Here
,
Switch Hitters
and
PoMoSexuals
. Her educational videos include
Carol Queen's Great Vibrations
and
Bend Over Boyfriend
.

 

JANE PERKINS
has performed her collection of monologues, “Food, Clothing, and Shelter” in theaters around New York City. She has received an Emerging Artists Grant from the Field, and came in 7th place in the 1995 Writer's Digest short fiction competition. She is currently writing a novel.

 

ROBIN PODOLSKY
is a writer who lives and works in Los Angeles.

 

KARIN POMERANTZ
is a writer and self-publisher living and trying to breathe in the cultural mecca otherwise known as Boston; however, if she had her druthers, she'd be living in the country, tending bees and drinking lots of lemonade. Her work appears in
Skin Deep: Real Life Lesbian Sex Stories
and on her web site
www.turnmagazine.com
.

 

DEBORAH L. REPPLIER
likes to blur the boundaries between poetry and prose, exploring the continuum of past/present, memory/fantasy and that sometimes space of reality. Her writing has been published in
The Underwood Review
,
Sojourner
,
Howth Castle
, and
Common Lives Lesbian Lives.
She self-published and co-edited
Our Writes
(Night Hag Press), an anthology of writings from a reading series for local Boston women that Deborah has been organizing for over eight years.

 

LAUREN SANDERS
is a writer who lives in the East Village of Manhattan. Her novel
Kamikaze Lust
was published in April 2000. Her nonfiction writing has appeared in
Time Out New York
,
The American Book Review
,
Poets & Writers
, and numerous other publications. She is coeditor of the anthology
Too Darn Hot: Writing About Sex Since Kinsey
, and is currently at work on another novel,
With or Without You.

 

HEATHER SEGGEL
is a freelance writer living in Northern California and dodging falling redwood boughs.

 

ALISON L. SMITH's
fiction has previously appeared in
Best Lesbian Erotica 1999
and
Hot and Bothered 2
. She lives in Northampton, Massachusetts.

 

WICKIE STAMPS'
work appears in numerous anthologies, including
Flashpoint
,
Close Calls
,
Brothers and Sisters
,
Doing It For Daddy
,
Leatherfolk
,
Queer View Mirror
,
Switch Hitters
,
Once Upon a Time
,
Sons of Darkness
, and
Strategic Sex
. Wickie is a past editor of
Drummer
magazine and current editor of
Socialist Review
.

 

CECILIA TAN
is the author of
Black Feathers: Erotic Dreams
(HarperCollins) and the editor of numerous erotic science fiction and fantasy anthologies for Circlet Press. Her short stories have appeared in
Herotica
3, 4, and 5,
Best American Erotica
1996 and 1998,
Best Lesbian Erotica 1997, 1999,
and
2000
and many other anthologies and magazines.

 

SARAH FRAN WISBY
lives and works in San Francisco.

 

TERRY WOLVERTON
is the author of
Bailey's Beads
, a novel, and two collections of poetry:
Black Slip
and
Mystery Bruise
. Her fiction, poems, essays, and dramatic texts have been published in
Calyx
,
Glimmer Train
, and
Zyzzyva
, and widely anthologized. She edited twelve literary anthologies, including three volumes each of the award-winning
His
and
Hers
. She is the founder of Writers At Work, a creative writing community in Los Angeles, where she teaches workshops in fiction and poetry.

TRISTAN TAORMINO
is series editor of
Best Lesbian Erotica,
for which she has collaborated with Joan Nestle, Heather Lewis, Jewelle Gomez, Jenifer Levin, and Chrystos. The 1997 collection was nominated for a Lambda Literary Award, and the 1999 edition was a Firecracker Alternative Book Award nominee. She is the author of
The Ultimate Guide to Anal Sex for Women,
which won the 1998 Firecracker Award. She is director, producer and star of the video,
Tristan Taormino's Ultimate Guide to Anal Sex for Women,
distributed by Evil Angel Video. She is Editor of
On Our Backs,
a columnist for
The Village Voice,
and sex advice columnist for
Taboo
magazine. She was Publisher and Editrix of the sex magazine
Pucker Up,
and is webmistress for
www.puckerup.com
. She has been featured in
Playboy, Penthouse, Entertainment Weekly, Details, New York Magazine, Out Magazine, Spin,
and on HBO's
Real Sex.
She teaches sex workshops and lectures on sex nationwide.

Copyright © 2000 by Tristan Taormino

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The following stories are reprinted from
Best Lesbian Erotica 1996
: “Seduction” © 1995 by Terry Wolverton was first published in
modern words
(Summer 1995); “Dybbuk” © 1995 by Robin Podolsky was first published in
Diabolical Clits
(Vol. 1 #1); “The Little Macho Girl” © 1996 by Kate Bornstein appeared in
Once Upon a Time: Erotic Fairy Tales for Women
(Richard Kasak, 1996) and is used by permission of the author and editor; “Pumpkin Pie” © 1996 by Sandra Lee Golvin is adapted from her one-woman show “Pumpkin Pie: A Story of Cross-Gender Transcendence” which debuted at Highways in Los Angeles in 1994; “And Salome Danced” © 1995 by Kelley Eskridge was first published in
Little Deaths
(Dell Abyss, 1995). The following stories are reprinted from
Best Lesbian Erotica 1997
: “Ariel” © 1997 by Carol Queen is from her novel
The Leather Daddy and the Femme
(Cleis Press, 1998); “Julio” © 1997 by Mickey Laskin appeared in
Leatherwomen III
edited by Laura Antoniou (Masquerade Books, 1998); “Penetration” © 1997 by Cecilia Tan appeared in
The Best American Erotica 1998
edited by Susie Bright (Simon & Schuster, 1998). The following stories are reprinted from
Best Lesbian Erotica 1998
: “Box 309” ©-1998 by Jane DeLynn is excerpted from her novel
Box 309
. Excerpts of “Cleo's Gone” by Gwendolyn Bikis first appeared in
Close Calls
edited by Susan Fox Rogers (St. Martin's Press, 1997) and
Does Your Mama Know?
edited by Lisa C. Moore (Redbone Press, 1997); an earlier version appeared in
The Persistent Desire
edited by Joan Nestle (Alyson, 1992). The following stories are reprinted from
Best Lesbian Erotica 1999
: “Juba” © 1998 by Letta Neely, originally appeared in
Juba
by Letta Neely (Wildheart Press, 1998); “Unfinished Tattoo” ©-1998 by Gerry Gomez Pearlberg first appeared in
Hot & Bothered
edited by Karen X. Tulchinsky (Arsenal Pulp Press, 1998); “The Blue Place” ©-1998 by Nicola Griffith is an excerpt from her novel
The Blue Place
(Avon Books, 1998). The following story is reprinted from
Best Lesbian Erotica 2000
: “By the Boots” © 1999 by Lauren Sanders is an excerpt from her novel
Kamikaze Lust
(Akashic Books, 2000).