Best Lesbian Erotica 2011

ABOUT THE EDITORS

KATHLEEN WARNOCK is a playwright, fiction writer and editor. Her erotica has appeared (under the name Kyle Walker) in Best Lesbian Erotica, A Woman’s Touch and Friction 7. Her other fiction, essays and reviews have been seen in ROCKRGRL, BUST, Ms., Metal Maidens, It’s Only Rock and Roll, Gargoyle, American Book Review, New Directions for Women and the liner notes for the Joan Jett CD Unfinished Business. Her plays have been produced in New York, the United Kingdom and regionally. Rock the Line was produced by Emerging Artists Theatre in New York and won the Robert Chesley Award for Emerging Playwright. Grieving for Genevieve won the John Golden Award for Playwriting. Some Are People won the Arts & Letters Award for Drama. She is curator of the Robert Chesley/ Jane Chambers Playwrights Project for TOSOS Theater, and Playwrights Company Manager for Emerging Artists Theater. She is Ambassador of Love for the International Dublin Gay Theatre Festival and a member of the Dramatists Guild.

LEA DELARIA is a jazz musician, Broadway diva, actor, writer and stand-up comic. Her first jazz album was Play It Cool. Her second, Double Standards, debuted on the Billboard Jazz Chart at #6. The first openly gay comic to appear on national television in the United States (“Arsenio Hall,” 1993), she has toured the world with her one-of-a-kind blend of cool jazz and in-your-face comedy. Lea has recorded two comedy albums and developed specials for HBO, Showtime, Comedy Central, CBC, WNBC and Channel 4 UK. She has appeared on daytime and primetime TV and on many talk shows. Her film credits include The First Wives Club and Sgt. Bilko. Lea made an acclaimed Broadway debut in The Public Theater’s revival of On the Town. She returned to Broadway to play “Eddie” and “Dr. Scott” in The Rocky Horror Show. Her latest CD, The Live Smoke Sessions, landed her on the Grammy ballot in 2009. Her book, Lea’s Book of Rules for the World, is currently in its third printing.