Best Lesbian Erotica 1996 contains stories by Jennifer Natalya Fink, Jane Perkins, Linda Smukler, Mona de Vestel, Gerry Gomez Pearlberg, Wickie Stamps, Linda L. Nelson, Lucy Jane Bedsoe, J. M. Beazer, Terry Wolverton, Alison Tyler, Corrina Kellam, Meg Daly, Trish Thomas, Robin Podolsky, Marian Rooney, Nancy Stockwell, Dorothy Allison, Nicola Griffith, Kate Bornstein, Karen Green, Pat Califia, Vanessian Samois, Sandra Lee Golvin, Kelley Eskridge.
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Tristan Taormino is an award-winning writer, sex educator, speaker, filmmaker, and radio host. She is the editor of 25 anthologies and author of seven books, including her latest, The Feminist Porn Book, 50 Shades of Kink: An Introduction to BDSM, The Secrets of Great G-Spot Orgasms and Female Ejaculation, The Ultimate Guide to Kink: BDSM, Role Play and the Erotic Edge and Take Me There: Trans and Genderqueer Erotica, winner of a 2012 Lambda Literary Award. As the head of Smart Ass Productions, she has directed and produced twenty-four adult films. She is the producer and host of Sex Out Loud, a weekly radio show on the VoiceAmerica Network.