About the editors:

Ian Philips is a flaming sodomite and gentleman sadist and wicked witch about town. Satyriasis is his second collection of literotica. His first, See Dick Deconstruct, won the Lambda Literary Award for Best Erotica. He lives in low-key infamy in San Francisco—where else?—with publishing/editing/writing wünderkind Greg Wharton.

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, The Love That Dare Not Speak Its Name, Love Under Foot (with M. Christian), 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:

Cary Michael Bass is enjoying finally growing up in his late thirties after a party beginning when he left the Air Force at seventeen. He lives in Fort Lauderdale with his partner of nine years, Michael Hanelt, and is currently working on his first novel, A Mirror's Shard. His works trespass in the realms of fantasy and science fiction and are often seasoned with erotica. "Eight Hours a Year" is his first published short story.

Patrick Califia is the author of Macho Sluts and a few other collections of disreputable, queer, perverted short fiction as well as a novel, Doc and Fluff, which is full of gratuitous violence. His latest work includes Hard Men, forthcoming from Alyson Publications, and Mortal Companion, a vampire novel to be published by Suspect Thoughts Press. He is also a transman, a therapist, and a parent. Patrick lives in San Francisco where he can pursue his hobbies: quilting, play piercing, genderfuck, Japanese bondage, fisting, and spoiling his cat rotten.

Justin Chin is the author of Harmless Medicine and Burden of Ashes. He lives in San Francisco.

M. Christian's work can be seen in The Best American Erotica, Best Gay Erotica, Best Lesbian Erotica, Best Transgendered 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 four collections, the Lambda-nominated Dirty Words (gay erotica), Speaking Parts (lesbian erotica), Filthy (more gay erotica), and The Bachelor Machine (science fiction erotica).

Trebor Healey is the author of the novel, Through It Came Bright Colors, which will be in bookstores Fall, 2003. His short fiction has appeared in Best Gay Erotica 2003, Harrington Gay Men's Fiction Quarterly, Blithe House Quarterly, Lodestar Quarterly, Velvet Mafia, and Ashé! Trebor has also published poetry in The James White Review, Long Shot, and Chiron Review. He served as co-editor for Beyond Definition: New Writing from Gay and Lesbian San Francisco. Trebor lives in Los Angeles.

Francisco Ibáñez-Carrasco; born in Santiago de Chile, migrated to Vancouver, B.C. in 1985, where he acquired his HIV in 1986, his Canadian citizenship in 1991, his doctorate in Education from Simon Fraser University in 1999, and a long drawn appetite for writing and teaching. His short stories have been included in Contra/Diction (Arsenal Pulp Press), Best Gay Erotica 2000 (Cleis Press), Of the Flesh (Suspect Thoughts Press), and The Mammoth Book of Best New Erotica (Carol and Graff Publishers) and on-line magazines such as Suspect Thoughts and Velvet Mafia. His first novel Flesh Wounds and Purple Flowers: The Cha-Cha Years was published by Arsenal Pulp Press in 2001 and nominated for the Regional Commonwealth Prize in 2002. He is working on a collection of short stories to be published by Suspect Thoughts Press in 2004 and coediting a volume of essays on popular literacy for Routledge.

Kevin Killian is a poet, novelist, critic, and playwright who lives in San Francisco. He has written a book of poetry, Argento Series (2001), two novels, Shy (1989) and Arctic Summer (1997), a book of memoirs, Bedrooms Have Windows (1989), and a book of stories, Little Men (1996) that won the PEN Oakland award for fiction. His newest collection I Cry Like a Baby is out from Painted Leaf Books, and his next book will be all about Kylie Minogue. Killian is editing a book of the complete stories of a late colleague, Sam D'Allesandro, and completing a novel, Spreadeagle, from which the material in Law of Desire is drawn.

Travis Jon Mader is a Texas-born queer writer whose influences range from Dennis Cooper and David Wojnarowicz to Genet and Nabokov. His fiction and poetry have seen publication in print and on the web, and a chapbook of his work can be found at his site www.take23.com. A produced playwright, he spent six years on staff as resident dramaturg at Houston's Alley Theatre before deciding to return to his hometown to finish his novel-in-progress. A veteran of Houston's queer performance and video art "scene," he is currently experimenting with integrating digital video into some of his previously published work.

Sean Meriwether's fiction has been defined as dark realism, his subjects rooted in the bizarre nature of everyday life. His work has been published in Love Under Foot, 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. Sean lives in New York with his partner, photographer Jack Slomovits, and their two dogs.

Marshall Moore is the author of the novel The Concrete Sky and the collection Black Shapes in a Darkened Room. He has given up reporting where he lives, in these publication bios. He might still be in Seattle by the time this sees print, but who the hell knows?

Andy Quan's obsessions include: really good books, Survivor, challenge, new experiences, Six Feet Under, different lands, and Really Attractive Men. He lusts for a tidy in-box, Australian Rieslings, creative inspiration, and peace. And men with really nice nipples. He's currently working on a collection of erotica and sex writing, to add to his previous book of poetry, Slant, and the Lambda Literary Award nominated short fiction collection, Calendar Boy, which has been published in both North America and Australia.

Rick R. Reed's horror fiction embraces the demimonde of urban Chicago, where serial killers, pedophiles and those who've bargained with the devil seek life's simple pleasures, including torture, pain, humiliation, sexual degradation, addiction, and murder. His published novels include A Face Without a Heart, which is a modern-day retelling of Oscar Wilde's The Picture of Dorian Gray, and was nominated as best novel of 2000 by the Spectrum Awards. His books Penance and Obsessed, which were published in Dell's Abyss line, together sold more than 80,000 copies. His short fiction has appeared in numerous anthologies and magazines, including The Crow: Shattered Lives and Broken Dreams, Kiss of Death, Whispered from the Grave, ContraDiction, Dante's Disciples, The Darkest Thirst, and White Wolf's Dark Destiny series. In addition to fiction, Rick is a theater reviewer for Windy City Times.

D. Travers Scott wrote Execution, Texas: 1987 and edited Strategic Sex: Why They Won't Keep It in the Bedroom. His appearances include Harper's and Holy Titclamps!, This American Life, and Best American Gay Fiction. He lives in Seattle.

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.

Taylor Siluwé (pronounced suh-LOO-way) wrote and directed a ninth-grade production titled The Land of the Mandinka Tribe (an African Romeo & Juliet), and it received so much praise that a passion for writing was born. Since then he's gone on to study creative writing at NYU and has worked with Venus magazine and Literary New York. His erotically charged short story, "A Taste for Cherries," appears in the anthology Tough Guys. Taylor, who describes the writing process as "excising inner demons," lives in Downtown Jersey City and is completing a novel and a collection of short stories.

Mel Smith has been writing erotica for 2 years. Her stories have appeared in magazines (In Touch and Indulge), on-line (Suspect Thoughts and Velvet Mafia) and in approximately 15 anthologies, including Best Gay Erotica 2002, Best of Friction, The Best American Erotica 10th Edition and Best of the Best Meat Erotica. Like everyone else, she hopes to write a novel some day.

horehound stillpoint's been called a poet, a pervert, a savior to excess and a scribe of tricks. His work can be found in Poetry Slam, Poetry Nation, Out in the Castro, Tough Guys, Of the Flesh, Rough Stuff, Sex Spoken Here, and Quickies. His own mini-book of poetry, Reincarnation Woes, is out on Kapow! Books press. Online, poems of his can be found at Lodestar Quarterly, Suspect Thoughts, and Narcolepsy Arms, plus an old essay or two might still be floating somewhere within Salom.com under the name Greg Nott.

A veteran of the daily commute, Jerry L. Wheeler graduated from the University of Colorado at Boulder in 1978 with a degree in journalism and has been hopping from square to square of a checkered career ever since. He currently lives in Denver, Colorado where he spends time listening to Dinah Washington, perfecting his air guitar technique, and working on his first novel, Seventy Times Seven.