Sommer Marsden is a wine-swigging, dachshund-owning, wannabe-runner who lives in a little house in a little town near Baltimore, Maryland. Her fiction runs the gamut from bondage to zombies to humor, and her short stories can be found in well over 100 (and counting) erotic anthologies. Vanessa de Sade is a self-confessed sensualist who likes exploring the darker sides of sexual desire. An obsessive lover of old movies, operatic theatre and authors like Angela Carter, Vanessa likes to fill her stories with lush imagery, bizarre characters, and misfits in search of love. Kristina started writing fiction in the first grade and hasn't stopped. Along the way, she's written everything from greeting cards to book reviews, but fiction remains her passion. Now, all grown up, Kristina has penned several dozen erotic stories. Velvet Tripp has been on the fetish scene since 2001.

She took to it like a duck to water and found it gave her the freedom she'd long needed. Velvet Tripp is the partner and sub of the author Fulani, and Velvet's literary inspiration often springs from her own bisexual lifestyle. Fulani has been part of the fetish scene for almost two decades -- early on he acquired the nickname #145;Fulani' and decided to use it for his writing. He first came to erotica in 2008, when he spotted a call for submissions in a popular erotica magazine, and he's been writing ever since. Giorgio Verona took to painting at an early age. His family fostered his love of the arts and at 14 he was given a place at a School for Fine Art. After working in advertising, he found himself turning back to painting. To his surprise, he found himself becoming something of an (almost) overnight success.

Kojo Black has compiled nearly a dozen collections and anthologies, and considers himself to be an unrepentant purveyor of the playfully perverse.