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false 26725 0 0 Started writing at eight (have the marble notebooks to prove it) when I didn't have many friends and had to find a way to get through recess on my own.

A few years later I began sketching violent scenes as a private retaliation to being picked on. Shudder to think what would've happened to me if I was in HS post-Columbine.

"Discovered" Washington Square Park when I was fourteen like generations of others, then later further east. Junkie at sixteen, rehab a eighteen.
At nineteen I was a pro-domme, which is where the concept of my first novel Sex, Blood and Rock'n'Roll germinated.

After uni, I lived in London for too-short a time, and miss it terribly.

Recently transplanted to "sunny" (haha) Portland with my husband, three cats and five rats; spend my time writing my next book, drinking at dive bars, and looking up at the huge fuck-off Redwoods.]]> female Chicago (lived there for a total of a month before being moved back to my parent's home borough, Brooklyn) 1978/06/13 1169479 5645913 1933354798 9781933354798 15 <![CDATA[Portland Noir (Akashic Noir)]]> http://www.goodreads.com/images/nocover-111x148.jpg http://www.goodreads.com/images/nocover-60x80.jpg http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/5645913.Portland_Noir 3.49 43 In a city full of police controversies, hippie artist punk houses, and overzealous liberals, Portland, Oregon, is a place where even its fiction blurs with its bizarre realities.

Brand-new stories by: Gigi Little, Justin Hocking, Christopher Bolton, Jess Walter, Monica Drake, Jamie S. Rich (illustrated by Joelle Jones), Dan DeWeese, Zoe Trope, Luciana Lopez, Karen Karbo, Bill Cameron, Ariel Gore, Floyd Skloot, Megan Kruse, Kimberly Warner-Cohen, and Jonathan Selwood.

Editor Kevin Sampsell is a bookstore employee and writer. He is the author of a short story collection, Creamy Bullets (Chiasmus Press), and the upcoming memoir The Suitcase (HarperPerennial, summer 2009). He is also the editor of The Insomniac Reader (Manic D Press) and the publisher of the micropress Future Tense Books.

]]> 113043 4.10 245 72 2994239 3.49 43 15 270434 3.63 363 111 521972 3.67 79 31 17569 3.84 1222 238 190466 3.79 117 27 2937532 3.55 51 19 26725 3.44 52 15 697353 3.42 99 31 233602 3.49 43 15 468943 3.49 43 15 12667 3.71 1168 318 12717 3.52 549 143 28474 3.76 1248 120 2994240 3.49 43 15 193859 3.50 364 59 2994241 3.49 43 15 2009 47469 0977197212 9780977197217 0 <![CDATA[Sex, Blood and Rock 'n' Roll]]> http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1170347276m/47469.jpg http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1170347276s/47469.jpg http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/47469.Sex_Blood_and_Rock_n_Roll 3.22 9 Cassie Chambers, refugee from Middle America to New York's East Village, is a typical young woman, until she decides to become a professional dominatrix. When she is attacked by one of her customers and suffers a miscarriage, she decides to exact revenge on her male clients, enacting the murderous fantasies that have haunted her sleepless nights. In the tradition of American Psycho, Sex, Blood and Rock 'n' Roll is a shockingly graphic novel about the psychological development of a female serial killer, and a biting commentary on gender.

Kimberly Warner-Cohen is a graduate of Brooklyn College's Writer's Program and a former dominatrix.

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