Best Lesbian Erotica 2012

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, Best Lesbian Romance and Friction 7, among others. Her 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 (published by United Stages) 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. Find her online at kathleenwarnock.com, Twitter: @kwarnockny.

SINCLAIR SEXSMITH (mrsexsmith.com) writes the award-winning personal online project Sugarbutch Chronicles: The Sex, Gender, and Relationship Adventures of a Kinky Queer Butch Top at sugarbutch.net, and has works published in various anthologies, including the Best Lesbian Erotica 2011, 2009, 2007 and 2006 collections; Sometimes She Lets Me: Best Butch/ Femme Erotica; Visible: A Femmethology Volume II; Persistence: All Ways Butch and Femme; Take Me There: Transgender and Genderqueer Erotica, and more. She is a regular columnist for AfterEllen.com, LambdaLiterary.org and SexIsMagazine.com and has written for GoodVibes Magazine, GoMagazine.com, and CarnalNation.com. She has released three chapbooks of poetry, one chapbook of smut, and one spoken word CD. Her first erotica anthology, Say Please: Lesbian BDSM Erotica, releases in 2012 from Cleis Press.

Mr. Sexsmith holds degrees in both gender studies and creative writing, studied and taught at Bent Writing Institute for queers in Seattle, and currently teaches community and academic workshops on gender, sexuality, chivalry, healing, communication, and getting the sex life you want. Monthly in her current home of New York City, she coproduces Sideshow: Queer Literary Carnival reading series. She prefers the pronouns she/her as well as the masculine honorific of “Mr.” In her spare time, she likes to cook, read, swing dance, sip whiskey, and look at the stars.