Bitten: Dark Erotic Stories (26 page)

ABOUT THE CONTRIBUTORS

F
RANCESCA
L
IA
B
LOCK
is the award-winning author of many works of fiction, including
Nymph, Dangerous Angels, Quakeland, Blood Roses,
and the upcoming vampire novel,
Pretty Dead
. She lives in Los Angeles with her children. Visit her on MySpace (francescalia) for poetry, pictures, and a growing community of kindreds.

G
REG
B
OYD
tells stories and makes pictures. His latest book is a multimedia fictional biography titled
The Nambuli Papers
, and his novella,
The Widow
, is part of Susie Bright’s novella series
Three the Hard Way
.

E
RNIE
C
ONRICK
is a freelance writer living in New York City. When he isn’t imagining unspeakable acts, he writes weighty tomes about Asian politics and lectures at local colleges. His erotic fiction can be found in
Best American Erotica
2000 and 2002.

E
D
F
ALCO
‘s most recent books are
Sabbath Night in the Church of the Piranha: New and Selected Stories, Wolf Point
, a novel, and
In the Park of Culture
, a collection of short fiction. His short-story collection,
Acid
, won the 1995 Richard Sullivan Prize from the University of Notre Dame and was a finalist for the Patterson Prize. His stories have been published widely in journals, including the
Atlantic Monthly, Playboy
, and
TriQuarterly
, and collected in
Best American Short Stories, Best American Erotica, Pushcart Prize
, and several other anthologies, including
Blue Cathedral: Short Fiction for the New Millennium.
Falco is an early innovator in the field of digital writing; his literary and experimental hypertexts are taught in universities internationally. Ed Falco lives in Blacksburg, Virginia, where he directs Virginia Tech’s MFA program and edits the
New River
, an online journal of digital writing.

S
ERA
G
AMBLE
spends much of her day writing, thinking about writing, reading what she just wrote, revising what she just read, and driving around Los Angeles with the music blaring as a meditative writing exercise. To find out more, please visit
www.seragamble.com
.

S
HANNA
G
ERMAIN
likes to write about things that go bump in the night—thus horror and erotica are her favorite genres. Her work has appeared in places like
Absinthe Literary Review, Best American Erotica, Best Bondage Erotica, Best Gay Romance, Best Lesbian Erotica
, and
X: The Erotic Treasury.
Visit her online at
ShannaGermain.com
. She plays “fuck, marry, kill” far more often than she’d like to admit.

A
LLISON
L
AWLESS
has published work in erotic markets. She has an extensive fantasy career under another name and lives in the Pacific Northwest. She has many imaginary friends.

T
SAURAH
L
ITZKY
continues to write erotica to celebrate the body’s resurrecting fires. She believes in oral ecstasy in all forms and that the only true democracy must be based on mutuality of pleasure. Tsaurah’s erotic stories have appeared in nearly seventy publications, including
Best American Erotica, Dirty Girls, Sex for America, Best New International Erotica, Politically Incorrect, Penthouse
, and
Blacklisted Journalist
. Tsaurah’s erotic novella,
The Motion of the Ocean
, was published as part of
Three the Hard Way
, a triad of erotic novellas edited by Susie Bright. Tsaurah is a member of the creative writing department at the New School in Manhattan where she has been teaching erotic writing for eleven years. She is also a poet and playwright. Currently, she is compiling a collection of her erotic short stories titled
The River of No Regrets
.

Known by her real name for her successful series of children’s books,
C
ATE
R
OBERTSON
enjoys the challenge of writing literary smut. Her erotica has appeared online at CleanSheets, ScarletLetters, and FishnetMag, and in anthologies such as
Naked Erotica, Naughty Stories from A to Z; Vol. 4, Slave to Love, Got a Minute?
and
Best Women’s Erotica 2006
. Originally from Canada, Cate recently moved to the United Kingdom, where she hopes to publish her first novel any day now.

E. R. S
TEWART
‘s short stories have been published in
Best American Erotica, The Year’s Best Fantasy and Horror, The Ultimate Witch, Codominium: Revolt on War World, Scared Naked, Cold Flesh, Poe’s Progeny, Jigsaw Nation, Hell’s Hangmen, Love & Sacrifice, Barren Worlds, Ruins Metropolis, A Time To … , Tales of Moreauvia
, and
Of Princes and Beauties
; Kendall/Hunt’s
Pegasus
textbooks; and the magazines
Future Orbits, All Possible Worlds, Pangaia, Talebones, Aboriginal SF
, and
Marian Zimmer Bradley’s Fantasy
. Stewart has written two erotic novels—
Alaya’s Assignments
and
Properly Whipped
—and has a third,
False Compare
, forthcoming. He currently lives in the American Midwest, where he is researching and writing a novel of ancient sins, modern lies, and eternal truths.

D
ONNA
G
EORGE
S
TOREY
taught English in Japan and Japanese in the United States and has finally found the work of her dreams writing erotica. Her dirty stories have appeared in over seventy journals and anthologies including
X: An Erotic Treasury, Dirty Girls, Best American Erotica 2006
, and several volumes of
Mammoth Book of Best New Erotica
and
Best Women’s Erotica
. She’s written an even dirtier novel,
Amorous Woman
, a semiautobiographical tale of an American’s steamy love affair with Japan. Read more of her work at
DonnaGeorgeStory.com
.

P
ATRICE
S
UNCIRCLE
lives in Oakland, California, and writes about pretty women. She grew up in West Tennessee and so she also writes about Black Indians and Southern Magick. And sometimes vampires. By the time you’re reading this bio, she should have finished her novel. It’s about a pretty woman named Mildred who lives, loves, and hunts in the city of Belle Orleans, the Venice of North America.

J
ULIA
T
ALBOT
has been assimilated by Texas, where there is hot and cold running rodeo, cowboys, and smoked brisket. A full-time author, Julia has been published by Torquere Press, Suspect Thoughts, and Pretty Things Press, and has an upcoming novel with the new Bareback Angels press. Visit Julia at
http://thegates.net/juliatalbot
.

A
NNE
T
OURNEY
has been writing erotic fiction since the early 1990s, when her first published short story was included in
Best American Erotica 1994
. Since then she has published short fiction in numerous periodicals and anthologies, including
Best Women’s Erotica, Best Fetish Erotica
, and
Mammoth Book of Best New Erotica
. She also writes dark fantasy and loves to explore the twisted byways of human sexuality, both in her fiction and in her personal life. Anne’s alter ego, Alaine Hood, has written erotic novels for Black Lace. Anne also writes sexy contemporary romance for Virgin Books.

J
ESS
W
ELLS
is the author of thirteen volumes of work, including the historical novel
The Mandrake Broom
, available at
Mandrakebroom.com
. She is a four-time finalist for the Lambda Literary Award and a recent recipient of a San Francisco Arts Commission Grant for Literature. Her first novel,
AfterShocks
, has been republished internationally and was reissued as a Triangle Classic by InsightOut Books. Her novel
The Price of Passion
is available at
Firebrandbooks.com
, and her work is included in more than two dozen anthologies.

CREDITS

“Lay Me Out Softly,” by Francesca Lia Block, (c) 2008.

“Pandora’s Other Box,” by Greg Boyd, (c) 2008.

“Get Thee Behind Me, Satan,” by Ernie Conrick, (c) 2008.

“Twins,” by Ed Falco, is an adaptation of a previous story that was published in
Contraband
, published by Contraband, 1980. Reprinted by permission of the author.

“The Devil’s Invisible Scissors,” by Sera Gamble, (c) 2008.

“Smoke and Ashes,” by Shanna Germain, (c) 2008.

“The Unfamiliar,” by Allison Lawless, was previously published in
Fishnet: a journal of erotica
, published by
Blowfish.com
, October 4, 2006. Reprinted by permission of the author.

“The Witch of Jerome Avenue,” by Tsaurah Litzky, (c) 2008.

“Half-Crown Doxy,” by Cate Robertson, was published previously in
Fishnet: a journal of erotica
, published by
Blowfish.com
, June 7, 2006. Reprinted by permission of the author.

“Cross-Town Incubus,” by E.R. Stewart, (c) 2008.

“The Legacy,” by Donna George Storey, was originally published under another title in the July 23, 2003, issue of
Clean Sheets
; and reprinted in
Best Women’s Erotica 2005
(Cleis Press, 2004). Reprinted by permission of the author.

“Master Sarah,” by Patrice Suncircle, (c) 2008.

“Historical Inaccuracies,” by Julia Talbot, was previously published in
Fishnet: a journal of erotica,
published by
Blowfish.com
, May 16, 2007. Reprinted by permission of the author.

“The Resurrection Rose,” by Anne Tourney, (c) 2008.

“The Rookery,” by Jess Wells, (c) 2008.

OTHER TITLES BY SUSIE BRIGHT

X: An Erotic Treasury

The Best American Erotica
, 1993—2008

Inspired by Andrea: Essays on Lust, Aggression, Porn & the Female Gaze

Three Kinds of Asking for It

Three the Hard Way

Mommy’s Little Girl: Susie Bright on Sex, Motherhood, Porn, and Cherry Pie

How to Write a Dirty Story

Full Exposure

The Sexual State of the Union

Nothing But the Girl
(with Jill Posener)

Herotica, 1, 2, and 3

Sexwise

Susie Bright’s Sexual Reality: A Virtual Sex World Reader

Susie Sexpert’s Lesbian Sex World

http://susiebright.com