Jeff Beresford-Howe (Contributing Editor)

Jeff Beresford-Howe is a writer living in Oakland. He is responsible for our new music section, and contributed our World AIDS Day essay.

 

Rachel Kramer Bussel (Contributing Editor)

Rachel Kramer Bussel writes the Lusty Lady column at ctomag.com, and is an Editorial Assistant at On Our Backs. Her writing has been published in The San Francisco Chronicle, Oxygen.com, Curve, and several anthologies, including Starf*cker, Best Lesbian Erotica 2001, Faster Pussycats, Hot and Bothered 3, Tough Girls and Best Bisexual Erotica 2. Visit her Web site for more information.

 

Pasquale Capocasa (Poetry Editor)

Pasquale Capocasa is an expatriate American living in Switzerland, and still does not write good poetry in German. On the other hand, he writes decent poetry in English; this takes a lot of his time, he says. He is the publisher and editor (which he doesn't take too seriously) of the award-winning poetry ezine Poems Niederngasse (which he does take seriously). He says he applied for the Poetry Editor job at Clean Sheets to broaden his horizons in this second half of his life, so to speak.

 

Isabelle Carruthers (Fiction Editor)

Isabelle resides in New Orleans and works in the field of immigration law. In addition to her gig with Clean Sheets, she is the creative director and fiction editor for MindKites, a literary webzine for freethinkers and godless heathens, and maintains websites devoted to celtic folklore, french medieval romance and beat poetry. Her poetry, fiction and graffiti has appeared in various places including Clean Sheets, Zoetrope All-Story Extra, Physik Garden, Moondance and WordSalad.

 

Naomi Darvell (Articles Editor)

Naomi Darvell studied Greek and Latin in college. She has published articles and reviews on ancient romance fiction and pornography. Naomi lives in Chicago, where she goes to graduate school, makes jewelry and writes erotica. Her current project is a BDSM detective novel in which the kinky person is, for a change, not the villain!

 

William Dean (Associate Editor / Articles Editor)

William Dean is a longtime media professional and producer. He writes erotica under the pen name Count of Shadows, and has published extensively online. His work is included in two erotica anthologies, Tears on Black Roses, and Desires. He also writes the monthly column Into the Erotik for the Erotica Readers Association.

 

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.

 

Hipster Doofus (Web Editor)

Hipster Doofus is the alter-ego of a freelance graphic designer (Web and print) living in the Pacific Northwest. He recently took up photography to be able to take pictures of naked people.

 

Shanna Germain (Reviews 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.

 

Susannah Indigo (Editor-in-Chief)

Susannah Indigo is a writer and consultant living in Colorado, and is also the editor of Slow Trains Literary Journal. She is the author of Oysters Among Us: tales of erotic wonder and the co-editor of the anthology From Porn to Poetry: Clean Sheets Celebrates the Erotic Mind. Her writing has appeared in many anthologies, including The Best American Erotica 2000, 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.'

 

Sandra Kingsley (Gallery Editor)

 

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

 

Laura Matheson (Gallery Editor)

The youngest and most northern of the bunch, Laura hails from Edmonton, Alberta, where she neither lives in an igloo nor has a dog sled. As a student of Religious Studies, she spends most of her time researching and writing about obscure doctrines and documents, or procrastinating. Laura is an avid writer and reader, although her shyness has thus far prevented her from being published. Her most time consuming project at the moment is a collection of spicy short stories based in biblical narrative.

 

Gary Meyer (Contributing Editor)

Retired from information systems project management, Gary now has a career in service as butler, chef de cuisine, cookie chef, and head cat wrangler. This transition coincided with a move from the Big Apple to the Biggest Little City in the World: Reno, the Paris of Northwest Nevada. He remains a practicing Hedonist. In between hikes in the high desert, he collects and reviews transgressive literature and sexual shenanigans. What he most enjoys about writing is finding out what he's going to say.

 

  

Bill Noble (Fiction Editor)

Bill Noble is a biologist, naturalist and environmental activist, poet and writer, and reluctantly aging rake, stranded dizzily among the hormone-flushed inhabitants of Clean Sheets. He enjoys mixing lascivious poems with very proper audiences, and has never met a fantasy he wouldn't take on a hike. Susie Bright has taken him to her bosom in Best American Erotica, and he once stood right next to Wilt Chamberlain in the Oakland Airport. His book of poetry, Three Crows Yelling, won the 1999 National Looking Glass Award. 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.

 

Julia Peters (Fiction Editor)

Julia Peters stole a copy of Delta of Venus off her mother's bookshelf when she was 12 and hasn't looked back (Thanks, mom). She blissfully works from her New York City home after several years in big scary offices. Julia's stories and poetry, erotic and otherwise, have appeared in Clean Sheets, Playgirl, and Mind Caviar, among others.

 

Sefinat Otaru (Web Editor)

Sefinat Otaru lives a fairly boring life in the suburbs of Maryland, where she takes boring classes towards her degree and works full time at a boring job. The only thing that keeps her from going quite mad are her adorable friends, books and -- of course -- the Internet.

 

Shirin Shoai (Galley Slave)

Shirin Shoai finally decided proofreading reports on children's issues wasn't enough for her, so she thought, "why not try erotica?" So far it's been great fun. Shirin currently resides in the Bay Area with an adorable but psycho cat, a dependable but messy roomate, and several good books about sex.

 

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.

 

Jenn Wilson (Galley Slave)

Jenn Wilson's work has been published in Clean Sheets, Seventeen, The Octopus, CyberGrrlz, and a lot of boring software manuals. She spends her time trying to balance distinct brain region stimuli -- great big databases, old trees, the river, Peter Matthiessen books, hapkido, sips of hot tea -- and, at any given moment, has far too many writing projects in motion.

 

/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.

 

 

 

Mary Anne Mohanraj (Founding Editor)

Mary Anne Mohanraj is the author of Torn Shapes of Desire, editor of Aqua Erotica and consulting editor for Herotica 7. She has been published in such anthologies as Herotica 6, Best American Erotica 1999, and Best Women's Erotica 2000 and 2001. Mohanraj was a founding editor of Clean Sheets and served as editor-in-chief for two years. She currently serves as editor-in-chief for the speculative fiction webzine Strange Horizons. She also moderates the EROS workshop and is a graduate of Clarion West '97. She has received degrees in Writing and English from Mills College and the University of Chicago, teaches writing at the University of Utah, and is currently enrolled in a Fiction Ph.D. program at the University of Utah.

 

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