KGB Bar

Tristan Taormino is an award-winning author, columnist, editor, and sex educator. She is the author of four books, winner of a Firecracker Book Award and named Amazon.com’s #1 Bestseller in Women’s Sex Instruction in 1998. She has appeared on CNN, HBO’s Real Sex, NBC’s The Other Half, The Howard Stern Show, Loveline, and many other TV shows, and on over four dozen radio shows. She lectures at top colleges and universities including Yale, Brown, Columbia, Smith, Vassar, and NYU, where she speaks on gay and lesbian issues, sexuality and gender, and feminism. She teaches sex and relationship workshops around the world. Visit her online at www.puckerup.com

Guest Editor Joan Larkin’s My Body: New and Selected Poems received the Publishing Triangle’s 2008 Audre Lorde Award. She has edited four anthologies, including A Woman Like That, nominated for Publishing Triangle and Lambda prizes for lesbian nonfiction.  A dedicated teacher of writing, Joan serves on the faculty of Drew University’s new low-residency MFA program in poetry and is the Spring 2009 Distinguished Visiting Poet at Wichita State University. Visit her at www.joanlarkin.com

Nairne Holtz is a Montreal-based author whom The Globe and Mail has identified as a “writer to watch.” Her first novel, The Skin Beneath (Insomniac, 2007), won the Alice B. Lesbian Debut Fiction Award and was a finalist for Quebec’s McAuslan First Book Prize. Her second book, This One’s Going to Last Forever, about relationships that are mostly destined to fail will be published in 2009.

Zaedryn Meade is a queer butch writer whose erotica has been published in Penitalia: Collegiate Erotica, Best Lesbian Erotica 2006, 2007, (and now 2009!), Secret Slaves: Erotic Stories of Bondage, Love at First Sting, Frenzy, and the forthcoming Afternoon Delight. (She also has copies of her chapbook Sugarbutch Star for $10.) Born and raised in the rainforest of Southeast Alaska, she now lives in Brooklyn. www.zaedryn.com

Finding herself uninspired to write her doctoral dissertation, Chelsea Summers began writing her award-winning blog, pretty dumb things, in March 2005. Since then, her work has appeared in Penthouse, GQ, Scarlet and New Woman Magazines, as well as in erotic anthologies edited by Susie Bright and Rachel Kramer Bussel. Currently, Chelsea is writing memoir and a novel, among other things. Chelsea lives and writes in glamorous New York City, NY. She has gleefully abandoned the world of academia for the writing life.