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Dirty Words: A Literary Encyclopedia of Sex is playful take on bedroom talk—a smart, funny encyclopedia with entries written by notable contemporary writers, and edited by Ellen Sussman.

Ellen Sussman is the editor of Dirty Words: A Literary Encyclopedia of Sex, Bad Girls: 26 Writers Misbehave and the author of the best-selling novel On a Night Like This.

Abiola Abrams’s debut novel, Dare, a chick-lit Faust, was published by Simon & Schuster.

Thorn Kief Hillsbery’s most recent novel, What We Do Is Secret, was short-listed for the 2006 Lambda Literary Award. His other novels include War Boy and the forthcoming King & Country.

Whitney Joiner writes for the New York Times, Seventeen, Glamour and other publications.

Allison Lynn is the author of the novel Now You See It.

Zoe Rosenfeld is a writer and freelance book editor.

Mary-Ann Tirone Smith is the author of the memoir, Girls of Tender Age, and eight novels. Her latest is Dirty Water: a Red Sox Mystery.

Victoria Redel is the author of two books of poetry and three books of fiction, including The Border of Truth, Loverboy and Swoon.

Natalie Danford is the author of Inheritance and the coeditor of Best New American Voices.

Josh Emmons is the author of The Prescription for a Superior Existence and The Loss of Leon Meed.

Adam Wilson is a graduate of the Columbia University MFA program.

Ravi Shankar has published a book of poems, Instrumentality, and coedited Language for a New Century.

Rachel Sherman is the author of a book of short stories, The First Hurt.

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