About the editor:

Greg Wharton is the publisher of Suspect Thoughts Press. He is the author of Johnny Was & Other Tall Tales and the editor/co-editor of numerous anthologies including I Do/I Don't: Queers on Marriage and Sodom & Me: Queers on Fundamentalism (both co-edited with Ian Philips). Wharton was included in Out magazine's "Out 100" top success stories for 2004. He lives in San Francisco with his brilliant and sexy husband Ian, a cat named Chloe, and a lot of books.

About the contributors:

Dodie Bellamy's latest book Cunt-Ups won the 2002 Firecracker Alternative Book Award for poetry. Her other books include The Letters of Mina Harker and Feminine Hijinx. She lives in San Francisco.

Steve Berman specializes in the alluring and troubling. His work has seen print in such places as The Sterling Web, X Factor, and Xodus Magazine. "A Rotten Obligation" was nominated for an Erotic Authors Association award. His collection, Trysts, offers more queer and weird tales.

M. Christian's work can be seen in The Best American Erotica, Best Gay Erotica, Best Lesbian Erotica, Best Fetish Erotica, Best Bondage Erotica, Friction, and over 150 other anthologies, magazines, and websites. He's the editor of over 12 anthologies, including Best S/M Erotica, Love Under Foot (with Greg Wharton), Bad Boys (with Paul Willis), The Burning Pen, Guilty Pleasures, and many others. He's the author of three collections, the Lambda-nominated Dirty Words (gay erotica), Speaking Parts (lesbian erotica), and The Bachelor Machine (science fiction erotica).

Wayne Courtois lives in Kansas City, Missouri. His short fiction has appeared in numerous publications, and his novel, My Name is Rand, is forthcoming from Suspect Thoughts Press.

A cop-turned-writer, O'Neil De Noux is the author of six published novels, one true-crime book, and over 150 published short stories. His short story collection, LaStanza: New Orleans Police Stories, received an "A" rating by Entertainment Weekly Magazine. He has stories upcoming in Alfred Hitchcock's Mystery Magazine, Ellery Queen Mystery Magazine, and the anthology Best American Mystery Stories 2003.

Sarah Felt was born a rare occidental inscrutable, so difficult to read that a professional fortune-teller once refunded her money. She lives and writes in Dallas with an exiled alien space cow named Oolong.

C.S. Fuqua's books include Divorced Dads, Notes to My Becca, Music Fell on Alabama, and the Deadlines audio novel series. His short work appears widely in publications such as Chiron Review, Dark Regions, Main Street Rag, Christian Science Monitor, Cemetery Dance, Bogg, and Year's Best Horror Stories XIX, XX, and XXI.

Beth Greenwood's stories have appeared in several anthologies including Of the Flesh; My Lover, My Friend; and Faster Pussycats among others. She lives in San Francisco.

Susannah Indigo is the editor-in-chief of Clean Sheets Magazine and the editor and founder of Slow Trains Literary Journal. Her books include Oysters Among Us, the From Porn to Poetry series, and the new anthology Sex & Laughter.

Maxim Jakubowski is the editor of the best-selling Mammoth Book of Erotica series, now into 10 volumes. He lives in London. His latest novel is Confessions of a Romantic Pornographer, which he vainly insists is not autobiographical. Others disagree, but his wife doesn't mind.

Jeff Mann's work has appeared in many publications, including Rebel Yell, Rebel Yell 2, and Best Gay Erotica 2003. He has published a full-length collection of poetry, Bones Washed with Wine; a collection of essays, Edge; and a novella, Devoured, in the anthology Masters of Midnight.

Currently working in the British Civil Service, which is every bit as boring as it sounds, James McConnon has had several stories published online and in the small press. He has recently completed the first draft of his fourth novel, and who knows, he might actually get this one published.

Skian McGuire is a working-class Quaker leatherdyke who lives in the wilds of western Massachusetts with her dog pack, a collection of motorcycles, and her partner of 21 years. Her work has appeared in Best Bisexual Erotica 2, Best Lesbian Erotica, HLFQ, and the webzines Scarlet Letters, Nest O' Vipers, StoryMistress, and Suspect Thoughts. She has also appeared in On Our Backs. Her chapbook, LoveSexGod & Everything, won the 2003 Cambridge Poetry Award for best poetry publication.

Sean Meriwether's work has been published in Lodestar Quarterly, Love Under Foot, and Best Gay Erotica 2002. He is the editor of Outsider Ink and Velvet Mafia: Dangerous Queer Fiction. Sean lives in New York with his partner, photographer Jack Slomovits.

Kathy Perrin lives in the grey and rainy Northwest where she met a roguish, sensual fellow. Her dreams turned to sunny islands and what might happen if only… Her stories and articles have appeared in Writer's Digest Yearbook, Grit, Woman's World, and other magazines.

Felice Picano's first book was a finalist for the PEN/Hemingway Award. Since then he has published over twenty volumes of fiction, poetry, and memoirs, had his three plays produced and been nominated for or won many national and international literary awards. Considered a founder of modern gay literature with the other members of the Violet Quill Club, Picano founded the SeaHorse Press and Gay Presses of New York.

Susie Santiago is an editor at Clean Sheets Magazine. "Shadows on the Wall" is excerpted from her short story collection, Many Kisses: Stories of Dominant Love.

Since 1994 Michelle Scalise has sold over two hundred poems and short stories in the erotica and horror field. Her work has appeared in such anthologies as The Darker Side, Best Women's Erotica 2003, Best Bisexual Women's Erotica, Wicked Words 6, and Dark Arts. Intervals of Horrible Sanity, her first collection of short stories is available now from Medium Rare Books.

Intrigued by things that grind and go bump in the night, Elyn Selu is a novelist living in New Orleans where haunting erotica is as escapable as humidity. Selu is currently writing a novel about a dysfunctional family of witches.

Simon Sheppard is the author of Kinkorama: Dispatches From the Frontlines of Perversion, and Hotter Than Hell and Other Stories (named Best Single-Author Collection of the Year by the Erotic Authors Association). He is, with M. Christian, coeditor of Rough Stuff and Roughed Up, and his work has appeared in many editions of The Best American Erotica, Best Gay Erotica, The Mammoth Book of Best New Erotica, as well as over 70 other anthologies. He's hard at work on his next collection, In Deep.