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He is the 2001 recipient of the Best Screenplay Award from Zoetrope for his script
Holmes and the Impossible Client
and he earned the Mississauga Arts Council Award for Literature in 1995.

P
AUL
L. B
ATES
is happily retired from a seemingly endless career in construction management. He swims distance and writes. The first two novels of his post-apocalyptic, end-of-days trilogy,
Imprint
and
Dreamer
were published by Gale Five Star. Short fiction credits include the periodicals and anthologies
Literal latte, Zahir, Star
Line, Withersin, City Slab, Parsec, TransVersions, Beyond the Last Star, Desolate Places, New Writings in the Fantastic, Ruins Extraterrestrial, Shadows & Light
, and
Sporty Spec
. His short story, “No Second Chance” in
NWitF
received an honorable mention in
The Year's Best of Fantasy & Horror Anthology
.

You can reach him at [email protected], find him at
distanceswimmer.livejournal.com
and actually see him waxing way poetic at the December 2007 Sporty Spec reading at
youtube.com/watch?v=7VaWg4Nlz40
.

D
RAKE
B
ENTON
enjoys life on the gulf coast of Alabama with his family and is driven to write when not fishing, gardening or playing sports.

S
TEPHANIE
C
AMPISI
is an Australian writer whose work has been published in magazines and anthologies worldwide, including the U.S., the U.K., the Czech Republic, Argentina, and Singapore. Notable publications include
Fantasy Magazine, Shimmer,
the forthcoming
Polyphony 7
, and the World Fantasy Award winning
Paper Cities
.

T
HEODORE
C
ARTER
has previously published fiction in several magazines and anthologies including
The North American Review, Well Told Tales, The Potomac Review
, and
Kiss the Sky: Fiction and Poetry Starring Jimi Hendrix
. He's currently working on a novel about the 2004 theft of
The Scream
and can be found online at
www.theodorecarter.com
.

K
YOKO
C
HURCH
is a newly discovered erotica author who has had her first short story published by Virgin Black Lace in the anthology,
The Affair
.

S.T. C
LEMMONS
is the author of four erotic books:
Scars & Roses
,
Damsels In Distress
,
Twisted Tales
, and
Demon's Rayne
. All are available at
pup-stc.com
. As Samuel Travis Clemmons, he has published numerous tales of humor and whimsy. He is also frequently invited as a storyteller to Science Fiction and Fantasy Conventions. In May of 2009 Travis was the Master of Ceremonies at MarCon, A SF&F gathering of more than 2,500.

Travis lives in the Chicago area with his lovely, evil wife. As he says, “It is only the evil women that I find beautiful. And my wife is insidious.”

A
NNABEL
E
ASTLAND
has three tattoos, two of which she'll let anyone see.

P
ENELOPE
F
RIDAY
likes writing, and she writes about things she likes—which had lead to her having written on a rather bizarre collection of topics, ranging from articles on disability and the regency period, to erotica and sci-fi stories. She likes red wine but can't stand coffee. To find out more, visit her website at
penelopefriday.viviti.com
.

H
ARPER
H
ULL
was born and raised in northern England but now resides in the southern United States with his Dixie wife. Harper has work published with Northern Frights Publishing, Pill Hill Press and Ghostwriter Publications, amongst others. He is currently working on an existential sci-fi novel, a short story collection of twisted romance and various other projects. Harper is on the web at
harperhull.weebly.com
.

E. C. J
ARVIS
is an Assistant Professor at Eureka College, alma mater of Ronald Reagan—but don't let that fool you. His work has appeared in
KNOCK
,
Bitter Oleander
, and
Heliotrope
, among other places.

J
AX
is forty, married, and works for the local theater in Plymouth, England. Writing is his main hobby. He's had quite a few stories, poems and articles published.

S
AM
J
AYNE
'
S
erotic fiction has recently been published, or is forthcoming, in
The Mammoth Book of Best New Erotica (volumes 8 and 9)
and in
Scarlet Magazine's Cliterature
. She has had non-erotic fiction (mostly dark humor and horror) published in a number of magazines and anthologies, including
94 Creations, Theaker's Quarterly Fiction, Bloody October
and
Sinister Tales
.

For two years, until June 2009, she edited her own fiction and poetry magazine,
Neonbeam
, which she ceased publication of in order to work on her own writing again. She is twenty-three years old and lives in Yorkshire, England.

L
ILYCAT
lives in San Francisco where she works with the arts community. She is on the board of directors for Shotwell Studios and Independent Arts and Media, DJs for
FCCFreeradio.com
, and writes. She has stories published in
Chemical Lust; Whipped; More 5 Minute Erotica;
and
Hos, Hookers, Call Girls, and Rent Boys
.

K
EESHA
M
ARIE
'
S
other self writes fantasy, science-fiction, and the occasional mystery piece. This is her first attempt at erotica. Once upon a time she was a newspaper reporter and covered the fire department and arson cases, hence the spark for “Old Flames.” She lives in rural Wisconsin and spends her spare time walking dogs and tugging fiercely on old socks.

A
LICIA
C. M
C
G
HEE
, twenty-eight, is an author/internet radio show host who resides out in the Pacific Northwest with her husband and three children. She's an urban erotic writer who has had four titles showcased by best-selling authors Zane and Noire. She also creates under the name of her alter ego “Pre'Cise.” Find Mrs. McGhee's books on
amazon.com
.

L
EE
M
INXTON
is the pseudonym of a freelance writer in northern California. Her erotic fiction has appeared in the
Blowfish Update
; CleanSheets; Forum (UK); the Good Vibrations webzine; and the anthology
Naughty Stories from A to Z, Volume 4
(Pretty Things Press, 2006). When she isn't daydreaming about what's in Lord Stanley's cup, she is working on an all-male erotic novella.

G
ISELLE
R
ENARDE
is an eroticist, environmentalist and pastry enthusiast. She is the author of “Cunning Little Vixens,” “Tangled Roots,” “The Birthday Gift,” and “Kandinsky's Shirt Button” (eXcessica), “Beneath the Ice” (loveyoudivine) and short story contributor to more than fifteen anthologies including
Love Bites
and
Bite Me!
(BBA/Torquere Press),
Girls on Top
and
Tasting Her
(Cleis Press),
Ultimate Lesbian Erotica 2009
and
Best Lesbian Love Stories 2009
(Alyson Books), as well as
Mammoth Book of Erotic Confessions
(Constable & Robinson),
Coming Together: With Pride, Coming Together: Al Fresco,
and
Coming Together: Against the Odds
(Phaze).

Online Giselle contributes erotic fiction, poetry and editorial content to such websites as For The Girls, Ruthie's Club, Three Pillows, Oysters & Chocolate, The Erotic Woman, Hips and Curves, and Lucrezia Magazine.

For more information on Giselle Renarde and her work, visit her website at
freewebs.com/gisellerenarde
or her blog, Donuts & Desires, at
donutsdesires.blogspot.com
.

M
IEL
R
OSE
is a fierce, rural, low-income, high intensity, queer femme bombshell, just for starters. Her porn stories have appeared in
Best Women's Erotica 2008
,
Best Lesbian Erotica 2008
,
Best Lesbian Love Stories 2009
, and
Ultimate Lesbian Erotica 2009
. You can find her personal essay on femme identity in
Visible: a Femmethology Vol.1
.

S
TEPHEN
S
MITH
is a renaissance man who takes photographs, plays the saxophone and writes edgy, humorous stories involving domestic turmoil. This is his first story, which is actually part of a novel, to appear in print. Another story of his, titled “Solid Evidence,” can be found on the website
ohsosimpatico.com
.

A
LEX
W
AYNE
lives in Canada, where the cold often leads to heated encounters.

L
UX
Z
AKARI
is an editor/writer living in Pennsylvania. Her erotica has appeared on the websites Oysters & Chocolate, Clean Sheets, For the Girls, and The Erotic Woman as well as in the anthologies
Best Women's Erotica 2009
and
Girl Crazy
. Her first erotic novel,
Coercion
, will be unleashed upon the world in summer 2010. More of her work can be found at
www.luxzakari.com
.

 

 

Thanks to the Erotica Readers and Writers Association,
Ralan, Duotrope, Gila Queen, GoodReads and Writing World
for hosting the call for submissions.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

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