Cecilia Tan

"Cecilia Tan transcends time, space, gravity, and cultural norms in her line of work: erotic science fiction," according to the San Francisco Weekly. Susie Bright calls her " simply one of the most important writers, editors, and innovators in contemporary American erotic literature." Tan always considered herself a writer, but her career took off in 1992 when she self-published a chapbook of three kinky science fiction stories entitled Telepaths Don't Need Safewords--and thus Circlet Press was born. Since that time she has written four more books of erotica, Black Feathers (HarperCollins, 1998), The Velderet (Circlet, 2001), Edge Plays (EAA E-book, 2006), and White Flames (Running Press, 2008). She has also edited numerous erotica anthologies including Sex In The System (Thunder's Mouth Press, 2006), The MILF Anthology (Blue Moon Books, 2005), Cowboy Lover (Thunder's Mouth Press, 2007), and many, many others, includnig over forty anthologies for Circlet Press. Her stories, essays, and articles in have appeared in dozens of magazines and anthologies including Best America Erotica, Best Lesbian Erotica, Best Women's Erotica, Playboy Online, The Mammoth Book of New Erotica, On A Bed of Rice, Dark Angels, Penthouse, Ms, Asimov's, Nerve, Gothic.net, Fenway Fiction, Periphery, and many more.