KGB Bar

Come hear five of the readers from this year’s volume, edited by Kathleen Warnock, and selected by Lea DeLaria, who will introduce the readers, and read from her introduction.

Charlotte Dare’s erotic fiction has appeared in Lesbian Cowboys, Where the Girls Are: Urban Lesbian Erotica, Girl Crazy, Island Girls, Wetter, Purple Panties, Ultimate Lesbian Erotica 2008 & 2009, and Tales of Travelrotica for Lesbians Vol. 2. Visit Charlotte at www.myspace.com/charlotte_dare.

Kiki DeLovely is a queer femme performer/writer who has performed and lived all over the U.S., as well as internationally, and is now focusing on making her home in Durham, NC. She loves artichokes and taking on research for her writing. This is her first published story.

Editor of The Sweetest Kiss and the Lambda Literary Award Finalist, Where the Girls Are, D.L. King’s short stories can be found in Best Lesbian Erotica, Best Women’s Erotica, Girl Crazy and Broadly Bound, among others. She’s published two novels and edits the erotica review site, Erotica Revealed. Find her at http://www.dlkingerotica.com/.

Sinclair Sexsmith runs the award-winning personal online writing project Sugarbutch Chronicles: The Sex, Gender, and Relationship Adventures of a Kinky Queer Butch Top at sugarbutch.net. Publications include: Best Lesbian Erotica, Sometimes She Lets Me: Butch/Femme Erotica, and Visible: A Femmethology volume 2, Mr. Sexsmith also facilitates workshops on sex, gender, and relationships. http://www.mrsexsmith.com/.

Xan West is the pseudonym of an NYC BDSM/sex educator. Xan’s “First Time Since”, won honorable mention for the 2008 NLA John Preston Short Fiction Award. Xan appears in Best SM Erotica 2 and 3, Best Women’s Erotica 2008 and 2009, Hurts So Good, and Daddies. Email Xan at Xan_West@yahoo.com.

Lea DeLaria is a jazz musician, Broadway diva, actor, writer and stand-up comic. Her first jazz album was Play It Cool. Her second, Double Standards, debuted on the Billboard Jazz Chart at #6. The first openly gay comic to appear on national television in the United States, ("Arsenio Hall,” 1993) she has toured the world with her one-of-a-kind blend of cool jazz and in-your-face comedy. Lea made an acclaimed Broadway debut in The Public Theater’s revival of On the Town. She returned to Broadway to play “Eddie” and “Dr. Scott” in The Rocky Horror Show. Her CD, The Live Smoke Sessions, landed her on the Grammy ballot in 2009. Her book, Lea’s Book of Rules for the World, is currently in its third printing. She currently performs at the wildly popular Jazz Brunch at Smoke Jazz Club (www.smokejazz.com) in NYC, and has a BRAND NEW CHRISTMAS JAZZ ALBUM on sale now. (http://www.leadelariabeasanta.com/)