Tristan Taormino is series editor of the annual collection Best Lesbian Erotica, for which she has collaborated with guest editors Heather Lewis, Jewelle Gomez, and Jenifer Levin. She is co-editor of A Girl’s Guide To Taking Over the World: Writings from the Girl Zine Revolution, (NY: St. Martin’s Press, 1997) and Ritual Sex (NY: Rhinoceros Books, 1996) a collection of writing on sex, religion and spirituality. She is also publisher and editrix of the pan-sexual erotic magazine Pucker Up. Her writing appears in several publications and anthologies, including The Femme Mystique, Heatwave: Women in Love and Lust, Sex Spoken Here, Chick-Lit 2, and Virgin Territory II, as well as On Our Backs, Sojourner, The Boston Phoenix, The Advocate, X-X-X Fruit, Venus Infers, and Blue Blood. The Advocate named her one of the Best and Brightest Gay and Lesbian People Under 30. She lives in Brooklyn.