About the editors:

M. Christian's work has appeared in Best American Erotica, Best Gay Erotica, Best Lesbian Erotica, Best Transgendered Erotica, Best Fetish Erotica, Best Bisexual Erotica, and over 150 other books, magazines and websites. He's the editor of over 12 anthologies, including The Burning Pen, Guilty Pleasures, Best S/M Erotica, and Underground (with Paul Willis). His first gay collection, Dirty Words, was nominated for a Lambda Literary Award, and his lesbian collection, Speaking Parts, is out now. Coming soon is another gay collection, Body Work, and a collection of his erotic science fiction, The Bachelor Machine.

Greg Wharton is the author of Johnny Was & Other Tall Tales. He is the publisher of Suspect Thoughts Press, and an editor for two web magazines, suspect thoughts: a journal of subversive writing and Velvet Mafia. He is also the editor of numerous other smutty anthologies including The Best of the Best Meat Erotica, The Big Book of Erotic Ghost Stories, Law of Desire (with Ian Philips), The Love That Dare Not Speak Its Name, and Of the Flesh. He lives in San Francisco with his brilliant Lammy Award-winning honey Ian, a cat named Chloe, and a lot of books.

About the contributors:

Stephen Albrow is a writer from Britain who contributes perverted filth to a number of adult publications, including Options, Cherry Boys, Coming Out and Penthouse Variations. Hidden beneath his alligator-skin brogues, he has a lovely pair of feet, which he keeps very clean. His big toe on the right side is worshipped by three ancient tribes in the South of Peru, while his big toe on the left side was the April 2002 Toe Club 'Toe of the Month.'

Charles Anders (heythere@charlie-girl.com) believes strongly in pedicures for all. The author of The Lazy Crossdresser and co-publisher of Other Magazine, Charlie lives in Cambridge, MA and San Francisco. Her work has appeared in Best Bisexual Erotica 1 & 2, Best Transgender Erotica, Blue Food, Anything That Moves, Black Sheets and a zillion other places. She organizes Writers With Drinks, a spoken word variety show-see www.writerswithdrinks.com for upcoming dates.

G. Merlin Beck has only one goal in life: to become an affront to decent people everywhere. Some claim this is because Merlin is cruel and vindictive. The truth is that Merlin simply loves the blush that suffuses the cheek when arousal and outrage meet. Merlin's work will appear in the anthologies Roughed Up and Erotic Travel Tales II. When not writing, Merlin works in the computer industry and tends to the whims of four delightfully eccentric cats. Merlin lives in San Francisco.

Bill Brent is a San Francisco writer, editor, and publisher. He has edited six editions of The Black Book, the resource guide to alternative sexuality, and he recently completed The Ultimate Guide to Anal Sex for Men. His fiction has appeared in his own zine Black Sheets, Best American Erotica 1997, the Noirotica series, Tough Guys (a Finalist for a 2002 Firecracker Alternative Book award in the "Sex" category, co-edited with Rob Stephenson), Best Gay Erotica 2002, Rough Stuff, and Roughed Up. His work also appears in other anthologies published by Masquerade Books, Alyson Publications, and his own company, Black Books. He co-edits the Best Bisexual Erotica series with Dr. Carol Queen, the 2nd volume a Finalist for the 14th Lambda Literary Award. You can reach him at BB@blackbooks.com.

Wayne Courtois lives in Kansas City, Missouri, where queer life is thriving. Most recently his work has appeared in suspect thoughts: a journal of subversive writing, Velvet Mafia, and the anthology Of the Flesh, edited by Greg Wharton. His story in that volume, "Taurus," earned him a Best New Voice award from the Erotic Authors Association. Email him at waynerman@aol.com.

William Dean is Associate Editor for Clean Sheets online erotica magazine. His monthly column "Into the Erotik" is hosted by the Erotica Readers & Writers Association and he is a Feature Writer for Mind Caviar. His erotica appears on numerous websites, including Suspect Thoughts, Literotica, Three Pillows, and NightCharm.

Sean T. Gold is a pen name for Jim Gladstone, who writes in a wide variety of genres. Gladstone's debut novel, The Big Book of Misunderstanding (Haworth, 2002), was an InsightOut #1 bestseller. His work has appeared in French and U.S. literary magazines including Bridge, Kilometer Zero, and American Writing; anthologies including Queer 13 (William Morrow) and The Best of the Best Meat Erotica (Suspect Thoughts); and periodicals ranging from The New York Times to Billboard. He welcomes correspondence and offers eclectic reading recommendations at www.jimgladstone.com.

Greg Herren is the author of two novels, Murder in the Rue Dauphine and Bourbon Street Blues, and editor of the anthologies Shadows of the Night, Full Body Contact, and Fratsex. Former editor of Lambda Book Report, he has published in numerous magazines and anthologies, including Men for all Seasons, Friction 4 and 5, Roughed Up, Best Gay Erotica 2002 and 2003, My First Time 3, and Harrington Gay Fiction Quarterly. A resident of New Orleans, he lives in the glamorous lower Garden District with his partner of eight years.

A transplanted Midwesterner, Jim Mason lives in San Francisco with his partner of 20+ years. On most Saturday afternoons, he can be found on the back patio of the Lone Star Saloon enjoying the "beer bust" and wearing Birkenstock sandals in warmer weather or a dirty pair of brown Red Wing construction boots during cooler, wetter weather. He has also been published in Bearotica (edited by Ron Suresha and published by Alyson Press in 2002).

Sean Meriwether's fiction has been defined as dark realism, his subjects rooted in the grotesque nature of everyday life. His work has been published in Of the Flesh: Dangerous New Fiction, Best Gay Erotica 2002 and Best Gay Erotica 2001, and has appeared online in 3AM Magazine. He is currently working on a collection of short stories and a novel. In addition to writing, he has the pleasure of editing Outsider Ink and Velvet Mafia: Dangerous Queer Fiction. Sean lives in New York with his partner, photographer Jack Slomovits, and their two dogs. Together they form Blowsquish.com, an internet design company.

P. Andrew Miller has published in a variety of genres and venues, mostly fantasy. His stories and articles have appeared in such places as Sword & Sorceress #13 & 19, www.gaywired.com and www.beardburn.com. He teaches college creative writing and literature as well as Greek and Roman Mythology, the inspiration for this story.

Ian Philips is a flaming Sodomite and gentleman Sadist. He is also Managing Editor for the Damron Company's best-selling LGBTIQ travel guide series, Mother Emeritus of AttaGirl Press, and Editor at Extra Large for Suspect Thoughts Press. His literate filth has strutted the paper and ink boards at a variety of venues including Best Gay Erotica, Best Transgender Erotica, The Best of the Best Meat Erotica, and The Mammoth Book of Best New Erotica. His first collection of erotic fiction, See Dick Deconstruct: Literotica for the Satirically Bent, won the first-ever Lambda Literary Award in the category of Erotica. His second collection, Satyriasis: Literotica2, will appear in fall 2003 from Suspect Thoughts Press. He resides in modest infamy in San Francisco-where else?-with author (and shoe whore) Greg Wharton. To read his fiction, surf on over to www.ianphilips.com. (His favorite shoes are Roman sandals with matching toga or 17th-century riding boots and the dandy duds to match.)

Jason Rubis lives in Washington, DC. His erotic fiction has appeared in Leg Show Variations, Tales from the Asylum, a number of adult websites, and such anthologies as Fetish Fantastic, Desires, and Guilty Pleasures. He is the author of several fetish novels, e-books and e-comics, including Paying for the Prodigal from Pink Flamingo Publications (www.pinkflamingo.com), and We Know Your Weakness from MTJ Publications (www.mtjpub.com).

Simon Sheppard is the author of Kinkorama: Travels Through Queer Desire, which contains a generous chapter on footplay, and Hotter Than Hell and Other Stories, which won the Erotic Authors Association award for Best Single-Author Collection of the Year. He's also the coeditor, with M. Christian, of Rough Stuff and its sequel, Roughed Up: More Tales of Gay Men, Sex, and Power. His work has appeared in over 80 anthologies, he loiters shamelessly at www.simonsheppard.com, and he has size 12 feet and a yen for tasty toes.

TruDeviant is the internal bastard Siamese twin of Rob Stephenson. TruDeviant's twisted fiction appears in Saints and Sinners (StarBooks), Best Bisexual Erotica 1 and 2 (Circlet/Black Books), Sex Toys (Mondadori), and Butt magazine (the lovely pink one from Amsterdam!). Rob Stephenson's writing has been published in the Blithe House Quarterly (online), Best Gay Erotica 2003 (Cleis), Dangerous Families (Haworth), Black Sheets magazine, and Fish Drum magazine. He edits the Tough Guys anthologies with Bill Brent (Black Books). He makes and distributes his own chapbooks, including Three of Them, Angel, Some Notes on Art and Architecture, To an End, Signals de Sade, and Paris Over Paris. Contact Rob at TruDeviant@aol.com.

Sage Vivant is the proprietress of Custom Erotica Source [www.customeroticasource.com], where she and a small cadre of writers have been creating tailor-made erotic fiction for individual clients since 1998. She has been a guest on numerous television and radio shows nationwide, where she reads stories written for the hosts. Her work has appeared on various Web sites, been published in Maxim and Erotica magazines, and several of her short stories are scheduled to appear in anthologies due to be published in 2003.

Duane Williams lives in Hamilton, Canada. His short fiction has appeared widely in literary anthologies, including Queeries, Quickies, Queer View Mirror I & II, Blithe House, Contra/Diction, Velvet Mafia, Suspect Thoughts, Buttmen 2 & 3, Harrington Gay Men's Literary Quarterly, The Church-Wellesley Review, Full Body Contact, and Frictions 6. He is currently at work on his first collection of short stories.

Paul J. Willis has written reviews and articles for several magazines and newspapers including Unzipped Monthly, Foreword, Philadelphia Gay News, The Gulf Coast Arts Review, and The Times-Picayune. He is the editor of the anthologies, No Strings (Alyson, 2003), A View to a Thrill (STARbooks, 2003), and the co-editor with Ron Jackson for the collection Kink: True Tales from the Sexual Adventurer (STARbooks, 2003). He is also the editor of the forthcoming titles Undressed Blues: Sexual Experiences Involving Airmen of the United States Air Force (Haworth Press), and co-editor with M. Christian for the erotic collection Underground: Steamy Stories from Bathhouses, Backroom Bars, and Sex Clubs (Alyson Books). Willis currently works as the program coordinator for the Tennessee Williams/New Orleans Literary Festival, and is organizing an annual GLBT literary event, "Saints and Sinners" to take place in New Orleans. He can be contacted at pjwillisnola@aol.com.