Чарли Андерс: Best Lesbian Erotica 2010

DANI M.( danim251@gmail.com) has just returned from bartending her way around the Southern Hemisphere with her suitcase, guitar and pen. After two years of living in and loving Australia, she’s home in her native Dublin to play at being a grownup! This is her first published work of erotic fiction.

ANAIS MORTENlives in Germany and works as a teacher. Her publishing experiences include contributions to lesbian and gay anthologies and three novels published in Germany, one cowritten with Kymberlyn Reed.

NATT NIGHTLYis a genderqueer, semipassing, androgen of faith, and all-around Boy who writes, thinks, dreams, and is absolutely fascinated by sex. His earliest perversions came straight from the Good Book, informing lust long before he got anywhere near his first erotica. Natt shares his exploits, and the growing pains of a radical political awareness at nattnightly.wordpress.com.

KYMBERLYN REEDlives in Los Angeles and works as an editor. She’s contributed to various lesbian and gay anthologies and has cowritten a novel with Anais Morten.

STELLA SANDBERGis a Swedish writer of queer historical romance and pulp fiction pastiches. She is previously published with lesbian erotica in Where the Girls Are (Cleis Press, 2009), Working Girls (Torquere Press, 2008) and Island Girls (Alyson Books, 2008). She has a website: www.stellasandberg.se.

ALEX TUCCIresides in the wild Virginia suburbs of Washington D.C. She has been writing for as long as she can remember. Poetry is her first love, but she has started writing short stories in recent years, mostly on dares and challenges. This is her first published story.

SOPHIA VALENTIis a writer and editor who lives and works in New York City. Her erotica has appeared in the Cleis Press anthologies Afternoon Delight, Playing with Fire and Pleasure Bound . Whisper sweet nothings to her at sophiavalenti@yahoo.com.

After enduring a dull nine to five job in a cubicle for several years, VANESSA VAUGHNdecided to pursue writing full time. Some of the things that turn her on include: tattoos, burlesque, any woman from a Warchowski brothers movie, tennis skirts, gold bullion, and Stephen Colbert—in no particular order. Visit her on the web at www.vanessavaughn.com.

MAGGIE VENESS’sshort stories may be irreverent, erotic, cynical, poignant, quirky or raw, but they are always engaging. Currently at work on a short-story collection, she lives on the sunny coast of northern NSW, Australia. Her fiction has been published in the United States, Canada, the United Kingdom, Australia and New Zealand.

NICOLE WOLFEis a writer of erotica and short fiction from northern Indiana. She enjoys cult films, travel, and good music. Her stories are at least somewhat inspired by real-life events or conversations. She prefers to let her readers guess how much of each story is fantasy and how much really happened.

ALLISON WONDERLANDis a cliterary elitist, governor of Grammarville, priestess of ProcrastiNation. Her nonsexual preferences consist of commas, carnivals, and cotton candy. Allison has contributed to numerous anthologies, including Hurts So Good: Unrestrained Erotica, Best Lesbian Romance 2009, I Do: An Anthology in Support of Marriage Equality . See what she’s up to at http://aisforallison.blogspot.com.

KATHLEEN WARNOCKis a playwright 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, and the John Golden Award for Playwriting. She is Ambassador of Love for the International Dublin Gay Theatre Festival.

BETTYis a five-piece pop rock alternative band from New York City, fronted by Amy Ziff, Alyson Palmer and Elizabeth Ziff. Friends since an unfortunate incarceration, fierce Elizabeth (vocals, guitar), funky Alyson (vocals, bass) and funny Amy (vocals, cello) began performing as BETTY in the late ’80s. In the fall of ’87, the women relocated to New York City and dove into the independent music scene. Their debut album was Hello, BETTY! and other full-length albums include Limboland, betty3, and Carnival. BETTY’s turned up on TV, from MTV to the Food Network. They wrote, performed and produced the theme song for the HBO series, “Real Sex.” Their independent films include their own I Remember BETTY, Seal Tricks and the all-Chinese First We Take Manhattan. BETTY fights fiercely for causes in which they believe: equal rights, finding cures for breast cancer and AIDS, Planned Parenthood, the Pro-Choice movement, an end to sexual violence and everybody’s inalienable right to dance naked in the streets.

In 2000, BETTY began collaborating with Michael Greif, director of Rent, on a theatrical piece with music. That show became BETTY RULES, which ran for seven months Off-Broadway before heading out on tour. The hit Showtime series, The L Word featured a theme song written by BETTY and band members appeared both individually and collectively in several episodes. Elizabeth Ziff signed on as the show’s Musical Composer, and eventually became a writer and co-executive producer of the series. Their latest CD, Bright & Dark debuted in September, 2009. For more, go to www.hellobetty.com.

Copyright © 2010 by Kathleen Warnock. Introduction copyright © 2010 by BETTY.

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“Uppercasing” by Charlie Anders first appeared in Fucking Daphne: Mostly True Stories and Fictions (Seal Press, 2008); “The Purple Gloves” by Gala Fur, translated from the French by Noël Burch, first appeared in In/Soumises; “Tasting Chantal” by D. L. King first appeared in Girl Crazy: Coming Out Stories (Cleis, 2009); “The Kitchen Light” by Nicole Wolfe first appeared on Literotica.com; “Flick Chicks” by Allison Wonderland first appeared in Hurts So Good: Unrestrained Erotica (Cleis, 2008).