Valentina Bonnaire (Contributing Editor)

Valentina Bonnaire's work has appeared (under various names) at Clean Sheets, in the galleries of the Erotica Readers & Writers Association, Slow Trains Literary Journal, as well as the print anthology From Porn to Poetry 2.

 

William Dean (Associate Editor)

William Dean is a longtime erotica and sexuality writer/editor. He is also Special Features Editor for the Erotica Readers and Writers Association (ERWA). His erotic fiction, poetry, and non-fiction appears in various places online, including Three Pillows, Velvet Mafia, Suspects Thoughts, Mind Caviar, Voracity Beat, Literotica, and Slow Trains. His work is also included in current and forthcoming anthologies.

 

Samantha Capps Emerson (Exotica Editor)

Samantha Capps Emerson is an ardent feminist who likes to be dominated by men. She lives primarily in the garden of her imagination, usually in full bloom. She loves to read fresh things that are wildly different, with words that make her want to dance the dance of ecstasy.

 

Shanna Germain (Assistant Fiction Editor)

Shanna Germain is a freelance writer and photographer in Portland, Oregon. Like Clark Kent, she masquerades as a demure newspaper reporter by day. But at the first sign of a telephone booth, she strips and begins to scribble erotica on her skin in red lipstick. Stupidly (or bravely) she uses her real name for both personas.

 

Riain Grey (Copy Editor)

Riain Grey is the pen name of a writer and editor living in Brooklyn, New York. When she is not reading, writing, or proofing erotica, Riain (that's pronounced 'Ryan') can often be found attempting to manage a used bookstore in Manhattan. Her work has appeared previously in Clean Sheets, Scarlet Letters, and Synapse.

 

Susannah Indigo (Editor-in-Chief)

Susannah Indigo is a writer and consultant living in Colorado. She is the editor of Slow Trains Literary Journal, the author of Oysters Among Us: tales of erotic wonder and the co-editor of the From Porn to Poetry series. Her writing has appeared in many anthologies, including The Best American Erotica 2000 and 2004, Herotica , and Best Women's Erotica. She is also a contributor to Salon Magazine. Susannah believes that Norman Maclean said it best -- "All good things come by grace and grace comes by art and art does not come easy."

 

Devan Macduff (Poetry Editor)

Descendant of Shaw, son of Macduff, Thane of Fife.

Highland pipes and northern drums
beat swift skyward
on bonfires billowing bright spark.

Float tuneful fingers far-reaching
'cross dusky shadowed moor.

Spirit's legacies still teaching
lover's lessons from long ago.

--Macduff

 

maya (Copy Editor)

maya is working on her doctoral dissertation in Cultural Studies. She also models, teaches yoga, is a fulltime parent, tells great white lies and kids' stories, wishes she were more politically active, and loves chocolate. She tries to keeps a baby journal, a dream journal, a poetry journal, and needs a diary to keep track of appointments. She lived in four different cities in three different countries last year and is now dreaming of settling down and adding to her bad girl portfolio.

 

Gary Meyer (Contributing Editor)

High desert hermit, cook, butler, cat wrangler, and freelance editor, Gary is a practicing Hedonist. When not mincing garlic or walking the hills, he's likely to be obsessively reordering his Netflix queue. His philosophy of life is based on the ineffable truth and beauty of a recently observed sign: "Temporary Purple Permit Parking." Gary perpetrates the Rent This Now! series in Clean Sheets Cover Stories. If you'd like to nominate one of your sexy cinema favorites for consideration, send e-mail to Gary..

 

Bill Noble (Fiction Editor)

Bill Noble is a naturalist and environmental activist, poet, writer, Pushcart nominee and serendipitous polyamorist, stranded dizzily among the hormone-flushed inhabitants of Clean Sheets. His erotic stories have appeared in Best American Erotica, Mammoth's Best New Erotica, and a wide variety of anthologies and online publications. Three Crows Yelling won the 1999 National Looking Glass Award for Poetry. He shared dazzling suppers with Robert Oppenheimer during his Cambridge days, stood next to Wilt Chamberlain in the Oakland Airport, and is boyishly proud of his sturdy seventeen-inch "member." His favorite among his Clean Sheets stories is Big Hungry Woman. A collection of his erotic poetry, May Touch Redeem Us, can be found at Slow Trains. He accepts delicious words, astute criticism and VISA at noblebill@aol.com.

 

Brian Peters (Managing Editor)

Brian Peters lives precariously between a river and the great midwestern prairie on the low-rent side of a limestone bluff. He is older than he once was, and younger than he'll be (and now owes a heartfelt apology to Paul Simon). He reads voraciously, programs less than he'd like, and loves Clean Sheets. He also may be one of only two people on the masthead not working on a novel.

 

Ann Regentin (Contributing Editor)

Ann Regentin started writing steamy fiction in her ninth grade biology class, and has since gone on to write reading comprehension tests, reference material, articles, poetry, music, as well as erotica. Her work has turned up in all kinds of places, including the Albion Review, Scarlet Letters, HipMama.com, Slow Trains, The International Journal of Erotica, and a few places that might not admit to having published her if they knew what she was writing now. You'll also find her stories in a handful of anthologies due out in the next year, and she has e-books coming from both Amber Quill and Amatory Ink. She lives in the American Midwest with her family, two parrots, and and an old Gibson guitar.

 

Desiree Storch (Assistant Fiction Editor)

 

Nola Summers (Contributing Editor / Galley Slave)

Nola Summers was born in Scotland, spent her formative years in Northern Ontario, and now works, reads, and writes in Toronto. She admits to spending far too much time thinking up ways to dominate her wonderfully submissive partner, and that Nola Summers is a pen name.

 

/amqueue (Newsletter Editor)

The center of the Langdon chart of the universe, /amqueue, as she is affectionately known, is the Mother of All Things. All Things Must wear a Sweater. Preferably tight and kind of clingy. Or at least, tight pants. Anyway, she got her start writing smut on the Internet, before the Internet was cool. Rumor that she was the first person to send a naughty email ever is purely speculative only - nobody can prove it and she's erased the tapes anyway. She lives in a four-story Victorian mansion, the interior of which looks like a cross between a Fetish shop, a train wreck, and a Science Fiction art show. She has two husbands, two children, a cat, and billions of ancient computers that might break down at any minute. She thinks TCP/IP is likely to be a fad, but is willing to let the technology prove itself. To know the gist of /amqueue, you must picture the Venus of Willendorf wearing lace panties, carrying a flogger, riding a Harley and wearing a leather jacket. 'Nuff said.

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Mary Anne Mohanraj (Founding Editor)