Best Lesbian Erotica 2010

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I’ve never written a foreword before, but I’ll stick by a rule of thumb that works well when giving speeches: start off by saying thank-you, and meaning it. Tristan Taormino gave birth to, and grew, a great, important series in Best Lesbian Erotica; it’s helped define a genre that has grown exponentially in the last decade or so, and Tristan has been one of its guiding hands (sometimes holding a whip). She’s handed off a strong, fertile garden of delights for me to keep tending and nurturing. Our publishers at Cleis have made a commitment to keeping this series active and influential when its founder moved on.

How did I get here? I knew Tristan when we were both starting out as writers, and on the downtown New York City queer and women’s rock/literary/whatever scenes. I bought copies of her ’zine Pucker Up, and thought I might try to write some of that lesbian erotica stuff (of course, I had to come out first). Eventually I did (come out and start writing erotica), and started publishing it in Best Lesbian Erotica.

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