MARTHA GARVEY is a New York–based writer whose fiction has appeared in multiple editions of The Best American Erotica, as well as other collections, including Strange Pleasures 3, Exhibitions, and Glamour Girls. Her essays have appeared in Bust, Bitch, The New York Times, and Killing the Buddha.

NELSON GEORGE is an author, TV producer, and film director. He’s written numerous novels and award-winning nonfiction books, including The Death of Rhythm & Blues and Hip Hop America. He has produced television programs for HBO, BET, and VH-1. He made his directorial debut with Life Support, an HBO movie starring Queen Latifah. George lives in Brooklyn, New York.

ALICIA GIFFORD lives, loves, and writes in the Los Angeles area. Her short fiction appears in Alaska Quarterly Review, Narrative Magazine, Confrontation, and The Barcelona Review, among others. She believes in chaos, coincidence, evolution, and serendipity.

SUSANNAH INDIGO is the editor in chief of Clean Sheets and the founding editor of Slow Trains Literary Journal. Her books include Sex & Laughter, Oysters Among Us, the From Porn to Poetry series, and her new collection, Geishas Don’t Eat Nachos. For further information, see http://www.susannahindigo.com, http://www.cleansheets.com, and http://www.slowtrains.com.

TSAURAH LITZKY writes dirty stories for The Best American Erotica because she believes in sharing her cream. Tsaurah’s cream is for world peace and against mind control. Her erotic novella “The Motion of the Ocean” was included in Three the Hard Way, a series of erotic novellas edited by Susie Bright. Tsaurah’s erotic stories have appeared in The Best American Erotica eight times. When not writing dirty stories, she writes poetry, teaches erotic writing at the New School in Manhattan, does yoga, eats good food, and, hopefully, makes love.

JOE MAYNARD published his own ’zines Beet and Pink Pages in the 1990s, and his fiction, essays, and poetry have been included in numerous publications, most recently in Up Is Up But So Is Down, edited by Brandon Stosuy. He also writes songs and performs with a band under the moniker Maynard and the Musties, and can be found at http://myspace.com/maynardandthemusties and http://myspace.com/dalailamaparton.

SERENA MOLOCH went into informal retirement from writing erotica after publishing “Casting Couch,” and since then has been having the most wonderful sex of her life.

JENNIFER D. MUNRO makes an unsavory living working for lawyers. Her credits include The Best American Erotica 2004, Best Women’s Erotica 2003, Mammoth Book of Best New Erotica Numbers 3 & 6, The Bigger the Better the Tighter the Sweater: 20 Funny Women on Beauty and Body Image, and others. Her website is http://www.munrojd.com.

MARIAN PHILLIPS lives in San Francisco. Her publications include her translation of The Confessions of Wanda von Sacher-Masoch. She is currently at work on a novel.