XAN WEST (xanwest.wordpress.com) is the pseudonym of a BDSM educator. Xan’s “First Time Since,” won honorable mention for the 2008 NLA John Preston Short Fiction Award. Xan is widely published, including stories in Best SM Erotica 2 & 3, Best Lesbian Erotica 2011 & 2012, and Say Please: Lesbian BDSM Erotica.
ABOUT THE EDITOR
KATHLEEN WARNOCK (kathleenwarnock.com; Twitter:@kwarnockny) is a playwright and editor. Her erotica has appeared in Best Lesbian Erotica and other anthologies. Her fiction, essays and reviews have been seen in Love, Christopher Street; ROCKRGRL; BUST, Ms.; It’s Only Rock & Roll, and the liner notes for the Joan Jett CD Unfinished Business. Her plays have been produced in New York City, regionally in the United States, and internationally. Rock the Line was produced by Emerging Artists Theater in New York and won the Robert Chesley Award for Emerging Playwright. She is curator of the Robert Chesley/Jane Chambers Playwrights Project for TOSOS Theatre. She is Ambassador of Love for the International Dublin Gay Theatre Festival, and a member of the Dramatists Guild. She curates the Drunken! Careening! Writers! series at KGB Bar in NYC.
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“Run, Jo, Run,” by Cheyenne Blue, originally appeared in Girls Who Score: Hot Lesbian Erotica, edited by Ily Goyanes (Cleis Press, 2012); “Nocturne,” by Cheryl Jimmerson, was previously published in Skin to Skin: The Art (May 2013); “Reunion at St. Mary’s,” by Catherine Lundoff, originally appeared in Lesbian Lust, edited by Sacchi Green (Cleis Press, 2010); “Birthday Butch,” by Teresa Noelle Roberts, originally appeared in The Harder She Comes: Butch-Femme Erotica, edited by D. L. King (Cleis Press, 2012); “A Good Workout,” by Sinclair Sexsmith, originally appeared in Girls Who Score: Hot Lesbian Erotica (Cleis Press, 2012); “Stitch and Bitch,” by A. L. Simonds, was previously published in Agony/Ecstasy: Original Stories of Agonizing Pleasure/ Exquisite Pain, edited by Jane Litte (Berkley, 2011); “My Bagandan Princess,” by Dolar Vasani, appears in Not Yet Uhuru: Lesbian Flash Fiction (Bright Pen, 2013).