Rachel Kramer Bussel knows a thing or two about good sex writing.


She’s edited over 70 anthologies, featuring over 600 authors, including six volumes of the Best Women’s Erotica of the Year series, and multiple Best Sex Writing volumes. Her writing has been published in The New York Times, The Washington Post, CNN.com, Cosmopolitan, Glamour, Harper’s Bazaar, Marie Claire, O: The Oprah Magazine, Salon, Time, and others, and has been a sex columnist for The Village Voice, Philadelphia City Paper and Elle.com. Her books have won 8 IPPY (Independent Publisher) Awards and 3 have won the National Leather Association Samois Anthology Award. Rachel teaches erotica writing workshops at colleges, conferences and sex toy stores around the world and online and consults about erotica and nonfiction sex writing at EroticaWriting101.com.