Best of Best Women's Erotica (39 page)

 

DEBRA HYDE considers “Tic Sex” her signature piece, and she's delighted to see it merits inclusion in this “best of the best” collection. Elsewhere, her erotic fiction appears in
Naughty Spanking Stories from A to Z, The Mammoth Book of Best New Erotica, Best S/M Erotica 2, Foreign Affairs: Erotic
Travel Tales
, and many other anthologies. She's also the brains behind Pursed Lips, one of the Web's first sex blogs. Google that, won't you?

 

SUSANNAH INDIGO (
www.susannahindigo.com
) is the editor-in-chief of
Clean Sheets
(
www.cleansheets.com
), and is also the editor and founder of
Slow Trains Literary Journal
(
www.slowtrains.com
). Her books include
Oysters Among Us
;
Many Kisses: Stories of Dominant Love
,
Sex & Laughter
; and the
From Porn to Poetry
series.

 

MARYANNE MOHANRAJ is a visiting professor at Vermont College and a PhD candidate at the University of Utah, specializing in post-colonial literature and creative writing. She is the author of several books, including her forthcoming dissertation novel,
Bodies In Motion,
an exploration of sexuality, marriage, and Sri Lankan/American immigrant concerns.
www.mamohanraj.com
.

 

G. L. MORRISON is a righteous, leftist, white, working-poor, omnivorous, vitamin-deficient professional poet, amateur mother, publisher of the zine
Poetic Licentious,
editor, writing teacher, reluctant journalist, and sometime scrawler of fiction, essays, and bathroom graffiti. Her work appears in
Early Embraces 2
,
Pillow Talk 2
,
Burning Ambitions
, and other print and online anthologies.

 

LISA PROSIMO's stories, articles, and essays have appeared in anthologies, journals, and online forums. She lives in Northern California with her husband and several thousand grapevines. When she isn't writing, you'll find her traipsing the Sonoma hills sans shoes, her feet stained a curious purple.

 

ELSPETH POTTER lives in Philadelphia. Her erotica has appeared in the 2001-2004 editions of
Best Lesbian Erotica, Best Women's Erotica 2002
and
2005,
and
Tough Girls
. She is a member of the Science Fiction and Fantasy Writers of America and of Broad Universe (
www.broaduniverse.org
).

 

CAROL QUEEN got a doctorate in sexology so she could impart more realistic detail to her smut. She's the founding director of The Center for Sex & Culture in San Francisco (
www.sexandculture.org
) and has worked at Good Vibrations since 1990. Her work has been published in dozens of anthologies and she's the author or editor of several books, including
Five-Minute Erotica, Exhibitionism for the Shy,
and
The Leather Daddy and the Femme.
For more see
www.carolqueen.com
.

 

SAIRA RAMASASTRY was an English-speaking Union Scholar to Cambridge University, where she received her MPhil; she received her MS and BA from Stanford. Her stories have appeared in
Scifidimensions, Rosebud,
and
ZYZZYVA
.

 

MARÍA ELENA DE LA SELVA was born in Panama and grew up in a temporary clearing now being reclaimed by the jungle. She lives in Seattle, where she cofounded the School Alliance Program at the Richard Hugo House, an urban writing center. She is a winner of the Mendocino Coast Writer's Conference Poetry Contest.

 

HELENA SETTIMANA lives in Toronto, Canada. Her fiction, poetry, and essays have appeared online at
Scarlet Letters, Clean Sheets,
and
Dare.
Her work has been featured in many anthologies, including
Best Women's Erotica 2001
and
2002
,
Erotic Travel Tales, Best Bisexual Women's Erotica
, and
From Porn to Poetry: Clean Sheets Celebrates the Erotic Mind.
She moonlights as features editor at the Erotica Readers and Writers Association (
www.erotica-readers.com
).

 

SUSAN ST. AUBIN is a mild-mannered administrative coordinator by day and a racy pornographer at night. Her work has appeared in diverse journals and anthologies, including
The Reed, Short Story Review, Yellow Silk, Libido,
the
Herotica
series,
Best American Erotica, Best Lesbian Erotica, Seduce Me: Twelve Erotic Tales,
and
Dyke The Halls: Lesbian Erotic Christmas Tales
, as well as online in
Clean Sheets.

 

CECILIA TAN's erotic writings have appeared almost everywhere:
Ms
.,
Penthouse, Best American Erotica, Asimov's
, and many, many best-of anthologies. She is the author of
The Velderet, Black Feathers
, and
Telepaths Don't Need Safewords,
and the founder/editor of Circlet Press, Inc., publishers of erotic science fiction. She writes about her many passions, which include food, sex, and baseball, from her home in the Boston area. Visit
www.ceciliatan.com
to find out more.

 

ANNE TOURNEY started writing erotica in the early '90s. Since then, she has published erotic fiction and dark fantasy in numerous magazines and anthologies. Her stories have been included in the
Best Women's Erotica, Best American Erotica
, and the
Mammoth Book of Best New Erotica
series. Anne lives in Denver, Colorado.

 

ALISON TYLER's stories have appeared in anthologies including
Sweet Life, Taboo, Wicked Words, Best S/M Erotica,
and
Best Fetish Erotica.
She is the editor of
Best Bondage Erotica, Heat Wave
, and the
Naughty Stories from A to Z
series. She lives with Sam, her partner of nine years.

 

ZONNA died December 1, 2003, from heart failure due to complications from diabetes and colon cancer. A prolific songwriter, author, and seven-time
Billboard Magazine
songwriting contest winner, Zonna's published output includes over a half-dozen recordings as well as stories in anthologies from Cleis Press, Alyson, Seal Press, and Arsenal Pulp Press. It has been requested that those who wish to do so make a contribution in Zonna's memory “to the left-wing charity of their choice.”

MARCY SHEINER has edited six editions of the annual
Best Women's Erotica
series. She is also the editor of
Herotica 4, 5,
and
6,
and
The Oy of Sex: Jewish Women Write Erotica.
She is the author of
Sex for the Clueless
and
Perfectly Normal: A Mother's Memoir.
Her fiction and essays have been published in numerous anthologies, the most recent being
The Essential Hip Mama: Writing from the Cutting Edge of Parenting,
edited by Ariel Gore;
My Body of Knowledge: Stories of Illness, Disability, Healing and Life
; and Carol Queen's
Five-Minute Erotica.
Her stories have also appeared on the websites
Pulse
and
Slow Trains.

Copyright © 2005 by Marcy Sheiner.

eISBN : 978-1-573-44784-3

 

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The following stories are reprinted from
Best Women's Erotica 2000:
“Lita” by Cara Bruce; “Ratatouille,” by Susannah Indigo; “Kali” by Maryanne Mohanraj; and “Cal's Party” by Lisa Prosimo. The following stories are reprinted from
Best Women's Erotica 2001:
“Tara's Stew” by Michelle Bouché; “Contented Clients” by Kate Dominic, which was also published in
Leather, Lace & Lust,
edited by M. Christian and Sage Vivant (Venus Book Club, 2003); “Tic Sex” by Debra Hyde; “Infidelities” by G. L. Morrison; and “The Heart in My Garden” by Carol Queen. The following stories are reprinted from
Best Women's Erotica 2002:
“Emergency Room” by Kim Addonizio; “Shadow Child” by Cheyenne Blue; “Learning to Play Chess” by Isabelle Carruthers; “Riding the Rails” by Sacchi Green, which was also published in
Electric 2
(Alyson Press, 2003) and appears by permission of the author; “The Amy Special” by Susie Hara; “Twisted Beauty” by Elspeth Potter; and “Greek Fever” by Anne Tourney, which was also published in
The Mammoth Book of Best New Erotica
(Carroll & Graf, 2001) and appears by permission of the author. The following stories are reprinted from
Best Women's Erotica 2003:
excerpt from
Portrait in Sepia
by Isabel Allende; “Betty” by Ann Dulaney; “Mail-Order Bride” by Saira Ramasastry; “Thought So” by Cecilia Tan; “Bad Girl” by Alison Tyler; and “What You're In For” by Zonna. The following stories are reprinted from
Best Women's Erotica 2004:
“Grit” by Kathleen Bradean; “Doing the Dishes” by Rachel Kramer Bussel, which was also published in
The Mammoth Book of Best New Erotica, Volume 4
edited by Maxim Jakubowski (Carroll & Graf, 2004) and appears by permission of the author; “A Love Drive-By” by Susan St. Aubin, which was reprinted in the “Sex and Politics” issue of
Clean Sheets
in October 2004, and appears by permission of the author; “Cutting Loose” by María Elena de la Selva; and “Danke Schoen” by Helena Settimana. The following story is reprinted from
Best Women's Erotica 2005:
“Nine Seven Zero” by Marianna Cherry.