SEXIS WRONG

and Russian. Her influences are J.G. Ballard, David Sedaris,
John Waters, Emir Kusturica, Mark Pauline, A.M. Holmes,
Patrick Califia, and Patty Hearst. She has been interviewed,
featured, and quoted as an expert by more magazine, Web,
television, and radio outlets than can be listed here, including
O (Oprah) magazine, NPR, CNN, Wired, Esquire, and WebMD.
For more information visit her website [tinynibbles.com].
Jack Boulware is a journalist and author of two nonfiction
books: Sex, American Style (Feral House) and San Francisco
Bizarro (St. Martin’s). He writes for many publications in the
US and UK, and is currently working on a new book project.
In a previous life, he was founding editor of the satirical investigative
Nose magazine, where he had the opportunity to visit
many heinous elements of the American experience, including
Area 51, Roswell, Waco, Tijuana, and the Mustang Ranch.
He lives in San Francisco, and is codirector of the Bay Area’s
Litquake literary festival. [www.jackboulware.com]
Bill Brent founded Black Sheets magazine and edited all seventeen
issues between 1993 and 2000. He’s the author of
The Ultimate Guide to Anal Sex for Men (Cleis Press, 2002).
His fiction appears in The Best American Erotica 1997, Tough
Guys, Best Gay Erotica 2002 and 2004, Best S/M Erotica, and
Rough Stuff, plus its sequel, Roughed Up. He coedited the
Best Bisexual Erotica series with Dr. Carol Queen, the second
volume being a finalist in the fourteenth Lambda Literary
Awards. His articles have appeared in the San Francisco Bay
Guardian, the San Francisco Bay Times, other magazines,
P.O.V., and at [goodvibes.com]. He has authored several
chapbooks of poems and short prose, and published a number
of books, including Hot Off the Net, edited by Russ Kick
(see [www.blackbooks.com/catalog]). Want his email newsletter?
Drop him a line at , or check
out [www.authorsden.com/billbrent] for more of his prose
and other writing.
Susie Bright edits the annual Best American Erotica series
(started in 1993 and still going strong), and she edited
the first three volumes of Herotica (1988, 1992, 1994), the
groundbreaking collections of women-centered erotic fiction.
Her numerous essays are collected in Susie Sexpert’s Lesbian
Sex World (Cleis, 1990), Susie Bright’s Sexual Reality:
A Virtual Sex Reader (Cleis, 1992), SexWise (Cleis, 1995),
The Sexual State of the Union (Simon & Schuster, 1997), and
Mommy’s Little Girl: Susie Bright on Sex, Motherhood, Pornography,
and Cherry Pie (Thunder’s Mouth, 2004). Her other
books include How to Write a Dirty Story (Simon and Schuster,
2002), Full Exposure: Opening Up to Sex and Creativity
(HarperSanFrancisco, 1999), and the edited collection Three
the Hard Way (Simon and Schuster, 2004). Additionally, Bright
cofounded On Our Backs, the first lesbian sex magazine created
by lesbians; wrote a column for Salon; was the subject of
a documentary on Britain’s Channel 4; lectures at America’s
top universities; and hosts In Bed With Susie Bright, a weekly
online “radio” show at Audible.com. Her website is [www.
susiebright.com], and her blog is [susiebright.blogs.com].
Vern L. Bullough, PhD, DSci, RN, is a State University of
New York Distinguished Professor Emeritus. He also served
for ten years as a dean at Buffalo State College. He was a
founder of the Center for Sex Research at California State
University, Northridge. Among other things, he is a past
president and fellow of the Society for the Scientific Study
of Sex, and has been awarded both the Kinsey Award and
the Money Award by that society. He is the author, coauthor,
or editor of over 50 books, has contributed chapters to more
than 100 others, and has written more than 150 refereed articles.
[www.vernbullough.com]
Rachel Kramer Bussel [www.rachelkramerbussel.com] is
senior editor at Penthouse Variations and a contributing editor
at Penthouse, where she writes the “Girl Talk” column.
She is the editor of Up All Night: Adventures in Lesbian Sex
and Naughty Spanking Stories From A to Z, volumes 1 and 2,
writes the “Lusty Lady” column for the Village Voice, and is
an interviewer at Gothamist [gothamist.com]. Her writing has
been published in over 60 erotic anthologies, including Best
American Erotica 2004, as well as AVN, Bust, Clean Sheets
[cleansheets.com], Curve, Diva, Girlfriends, mediabistro.com,
the New York Post, On Our Backs, Oxygen.com, Punk Planet,
the San Francisco Chronicle, Time Out New York, and others.
Patrick Califia is the author of two collections of essays from
Cleis Press, Public Sex: The Culture of Radical Sex and Speaking
Sex to Power. He also wrote Sex Changes: The Politics
of Transgenderism. He’s the author of several collections of
short erotic fiction, two novels, a book of poetry, and a forthcoming
memoir entitled Pioneer. [www.patrickcalifia.com]
M. Christian is the author of the critically acclaimed and
bestselling collections Dirty Words, Speaking Parts, The
Bachelor Machine, and Filthy (forthcoming). He is the editor
of The Burning Pen, Guilty Pleasures, the Best S/M Erotica
series, The Mammoth Book of Future Cops, and The Mammoth
Book of Tales of the Road (with Maxim Jakubowski),
and over fourteen other anthologies. His short fiction has appeared
in over 150 books, including Best American Erotica,
Best Gay Erotica, Best Lesbian Erotica, Best Transgendered
Erotica, Best Fetish Erotica, Best Bondage Erotica, and…well,
you get the idea. He lives in San Francisco and is only some
of what that implies. [www.mchristian.com]
Greta Christina has been writing professionally since 1989.
Her writing has appeared in numerous magazines and newspapers,
including Ms., Penthouse, and the Skeptical Inquirer,
as well as several anthologies, including Best American Erot-
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