Best Lesbian Erotica 2013

ABOUT THE AUTHORS

NIKKI ADAMS lives amid the quiet fields of southern New Jersey. This is her first published work of erotic fiction.

VALERIE ALEXANDER is a writer who lives in Arizona. Her work has been previously published in Best Lesbian Erotica, Best of Best Women’s Erotica and other anthologies.

ZOE AMOS is the pen name Janet F. Williams uses for lesbian-themed romance, erotica and contemporary fiction. You can read her work in Ultimate Lesbian Erotica 2006 and 2008, and Best Lesbian Love Stories 2010. For more stories and nonfiction, please search for either name and please visit JanetFWilliams.com.

ANAMIKA has published three novels and a number of stories in India and abroad. Hem and Football and its sequel, Hem and Maxine dealt with women’s football and lesbian love. “Ladies Coupe” was in Best Lesbian Erotica 2011. Anamika lives in a satellite township near Delhi, India.

SALLY BELLEROSE is author of The Girls Club, which won the Bywater Prize. Bellerose’s current project is a short-story collection, Peeing Like a Boy, which features old women behaving badly. Please visit her at sallybellerose.wordpress.com.

TENILLE BROWN’s erotic fiction is widely published online and in nearly forty print anthologies including Chocolate Flava 1 and 3, Curvy Girls, Making the Hook Up, Going Down, Best Bondage Erotica 2011 and 2012, Sapphic Planet and Suite Encounters. The Southern wife and mother blogs at therealtenille.com.

RACHEL CHARMAN is a journalist and author from Essex, UK. Her work has also appeared in Best Lesbian Erotica 2011 and Ultimate Uniforms. Contact her at ray_charman@hotmail.com.

V. C. CLARK’s erotic short stories have been published on Oysters&Chocolate.com and in numerous anthologies including: Sugar and Spice: Kinky Girl-on-Girl Stories and Bad Romance. Her first novella is The Mistress.

ANDREA DALE would wear comfy clothes to win a contest but dresses up sexy for rock concerts. Her work appeared in the Lambda Award–winning anthology Lesbian Cowboys: Erotic Adventures and Romantic Times and Fairy Tale Lust, as well as about one hundred other anthologies. Visit cyvarwydd.com to find out what she’s up to today.

REBECCA LYNNE FULLAN is a writer of various stripes, most of them human. She lives, writes, reads and learns in New York City. This story is for her girlfriend, Charlotte. Come visit her here: rebeccalynnefullan.wordpress.com.

PENNY GYOKERES writes poetry, music and erotic adventures, though she would like to write a full-length novel that sells triumphantly worldwide so she can retire comfortably. She was born in Toronto, Ontario, and resides there and “up north” with her partner.

SONYA HERZOG is a fortysomething, lesbian, Yankee transplant living in the deep South with her partner, son, dog and two cats. She enjoys cooking and all things literary: reading, writing and editing. She wishes there were more hours in a day to spend with friends and take up new hobbies.

KIRSTY LOGAN lives in Glasgow, Scotland with her very own fancy lady. She has published stories in Best Lesbian Erotica 2011 and 2012, and Best Women’s Erotica 2011. She is working on a novel, Rust and Stardust, and a story collection, The Rental Heart and Other Fairytales (which includes “Underskirts”). Say hello at kirstylogan.com.

SID MARCH is a nomadic being with half a dozen hometowns who writes obsessively when no one is watching as a way to tame her insatiable wanderlust.

ANNA MEADOWS is a part-time executive assistant, part-time housewife. She writes from her heritage in the Mexican-American Southwest and her passion for stories about women in love. Her work appears in a number of anthologies, including fourteen from Cleis Press, and on the Lambda Literary website. She lives with her sapphic husband in California.

MAGGIE MORTON lives in Northern California with her partner and their Japanese Bobtail. Her first novel, an erotic lesbian romance, is Dreaming of Her. Her writing appears in multiple anthologies, and includes the lesbian erotica story “Julie Repents.”

HELEN SANDLER (www.helensandler.co.uk) is about to reissue her erotic novel Big Deal as an e-book. She has edited Lambda-winning anthologies for Diva Books; she runs Tollington Press and co-programs L Fest. Before moving with her girlfriend to a cabin on the Welsh coast, she was a compere at London’s Bar Wotever.

BD SWAIN started writing queer smut because of a deep need to do so. Read more of her writing at bdswain.com.

AMELIA THORNTON is a very good girl with very bad thoughts, who enjoys baking, hard spankings, vintage lingerie and writing beautiful naughtiness. She has been published in Best Women’s Erotica 2011 and 2012 and several Xcite anthologies, and lives by the English seaside.

With a penchant for flash fiction, MAGGIE VENESS’s stories have been described as quirky, contemplative and mischievous. She lives on the sunny coast of northern NSW, Australia, where she tutors fiction writing at a local college and works part-time in two volunteer positions.

Jamaican-born FIONA ZEDDE (www.fionazedde.com) lives and writes in Tampa, Florida. She is the author of several erotic lesbian romance novels, including the Lambda Literary Award finalists Bliss and Every Dark Desire. Her novel, Dangerous Pleasures, was winner of the About.com Readers’ Choice Award for Best Lesbian Novel/Memoir. Nightshade, her latest work, is available now.