Learn more about the contributors to Fast Girls: Erotica for Women.
About the Authors
Jacqueline Applebee (writing-in-shadows.co.uk) has had stories in various websites and anthologies including Cleansheets, Best Women’s Erotica 2008 and 2009, Best Lesbian Erotica 2008, Tasting Him and Afternoon Delight.
Tenille Brown’s erotica is featured in various webzines and in such anthologies as Do Not Disturb, Bottoms Up, Tasting Him, Iridescence, Naughty or Nice, J Is for Jealousy and Caught Looking. She is a shoe and purse shopaholic and keeps a blog on her MySpace page, Myspace.com/tenillebrown.
Born in the dirty South, Cherry Bomb has been performing since she was just a tiny pile of gunpowder. Conceived in the throes of a one-night stand between bell hooks and RuPaul, activism and a love of glitter are built into her sordid DNA. Catch her blogging burlesque and love at cherrybombnyc.com.
Angela Caperton’s eclectic erotica spans many genres, including romance, horror, fantasy and what she calls contemporary-with-a-twist. Look for her stories published with Cleis, Circlet Press, Drollerie Press, eXtasy Books and in the indie magazine Out of the Gutter.
Elizabeth Coldwell’s stories have appeared in a variety of anthologies including Yes, Sir; Bottoms Up; Do Not Disturb and The Mile High Club. This story is dedicated to anyone who has ever taken a ride in the Taxi of Shame.
Andrea Dale’s stories have appeared in Lesbian Cowboys, The Sweetest Kiss and Bottoms Up, among many others. With coauthors, she has sold two novels to Virgin Books. She thinks the Getty Villa is an amazingly sensual place. Her website is at cyvarwydd.com.
Often based on her own explorations in the world of D/s and BDSM, Tess Danesi’s writing explores the darker side of erotica with raw honesty about that shadowy area where pain becomes pleasure and pleasure pain. She blogs at Urban Gypsy (nyc-urban-gypsy.blogspot.com) and has been published in several anthologies and Time Out New York.
Isabelle Gray’s writing appears or is forthcoming in more than forty anthologies.
Susie Hara’s work has been published (under her name as well as the pseudonym Lisa Wolfe) in Best American Erotica 2003, Best Women’s Erotica 2007, Hot Women’s Erotica, Best of Best Women’s Erotica and X: The Erotic Treasury. Writing sexy stories is the most fun she’s ever had with a laptop.
D. L. King publishes and edits the review site, Erotica Revealed. The editor of Where the Girls Are and The Sweetest Kiss, her stories can be found in Best Women’s Erotica, Best Lesbian Erotic;, Please, Ma’am and many others. She is the author of two novels. Find her at dlkingerotica.com.
As a coed studying biochemistry and genetics, Lolita Lopez dabbled in creating naughty tales to entertain her friends. Study for a midterm or pen a deliciously dirty story to delight her small band of fans? Not surprisingly, Lo is now on an extended sabbatical from college. She lives in Texas with her family.
Kayla Perrin (kaylaperrin.com) has a BA in English and sociology and a Bachelor of Education. She considered becoming a teacher–but writing was always her greatest love. She has thirty-five published works, including romance, erotica, suspense and children’s fiction, and has been a USA Today and Essence® bestseller.
Jennifer Peters is the associate editor of Penthouse Forum and Girls of Penthouse magazines, and a contributing editor to Penthouse. Her work has appeared in several places under numerous names, but her bylines in Penthouse and Forum are her favorites.
Suzanne V. Slate is a librarian who lives in the Boston area with her longtime lover. She has published a variety of nonfiction articles and a book, and has recently begun writing fiction.
Charlotte Stein has a number of short stories in various erotic anthologies, including Seduction and Misbehavior. Her own collection of short stories, The Things That Make Me Give In, was published in 2009.
Donna George Storey is the author of Amorous Woman, a semiautobiographical tale of an American’s steamy love affair with Japan. Her short fiction has appeared in numerous anthologies including Best American Erotica, Best Women’s Erotica, Bottoms Up, Peep Show and Spanked. Read more of her work at DonnaGeorgeStorey.com.
Tristan Taormino (puckerup.com) is a writer, sex educator and pornographer. She is the author of Opening Up: Creating and Sustaining Open Relationships; True Lust: Adventures in Sex, Porn and Perversion; Down and Dirty Sex Secrets; The Ultimate Guide to Anal Sex for Women and The Anal Sex Position Guide.
Saskia Walker (saskiawalker.co.uk) is a British author whose short fiction appears in over sixty anthologies. Her erotic novels include: Along for the Ride, Double Dare, Reckless, Rampant and Inescapable. Saskia lives in the north of England close to the windswept Yorkshire moors, where she happily spends her days spinning yarns.
Kristina Wright’s (kristinawright.com) steamy erotica has appeared in over seventy-five anthologies, including several editions of The Mammoth Book of Best New Erotica; Seduction, Liaisons and Sexy Little Numbers; Bedding Down: A Collection of Winter Erotica and Dirty Girls: Erotica for Women. She is also the editor of Fairy Tale Lust: Erotic Bedtime Stories for Women (Cleis Press).
About the Editor
Rachel Kramer Bussel (rachelkramerbussel.com) is a New York–based author, editor and blogger. She is the Best Sex Writing series editor (bestsexwriting.com), and has edited or coedited over twenty-five books of erotica, including Dirty Girls: Erotica for Women;, Peep Show; Bottoms Up; Spanked; Naughty Spanking Stories from A to Z 1 and 2; The Mile High Club; Do Not Disturb; Tasting Him; Tasting Her; Please, Sir; Please, Ma’am; Yes, Sir; Yes, Ma’am; He’s on Top; She’s on Top; Caught Looking; Hide and Seek; Crossdressing; Rubber Sex; Sex and Candy; Ultimate Undies; Glamour Girls and Bedding Down. She is the winner of 3 IPPY (Independent Publisher) Awards. Her work has been published in over one hundred anthologies, including Best American Erotica 2004 and 2006, Zane’s Chocolate Flava 2 and Purple Panties, Everything You Know About Sex Is Wrong, Single State of the Union and Desire: Women Write About Wanting. She serves as senior editor at Penthouse Variations, and wrote the popular “Lusty Lady” column for the Village Voice.
Rachel has written for AVN, Bust, Cleansheets.com, Cosmopolitan, Curve, the Daily Beast Fresh Yarn, TheFrisky.com, Gothamist, Huffington Post, Mediabistro, Newsday, New York Post, Penthouse, Playgirl, Radar, San Francisco Chronicle, Tango, Time Out New York and Zink, among others. She has appeared on “The Martha Stewart Show,” “The Berman and Berman Show,” NY1, and Showtime’s “Family Business.” She has hosted In the Flesh Erotic Reading Series (inthefleshreadingseries.com) since October 2005, which has featured everyone from Susie Bright to Zane, about which the New York Times’s UrbanEye newsletter said she “welcomes eroticism of all stripes, spots and textures.” She blogs at lustylady.blogspot.com.
