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Rachel Kramer Bussel

Rachel Kramer Bussel (born 1975) is an American author, columnist, and editor, specializing in erotica.[1] She previously studied at the New York University School of Law[2] and earned her bachelor's degree in political science and women's studies from the University of California, Berkeley.[citation needed]

Career

Bussel has been a Senior Editor at Penthouse Variations, a Contributing Editor to Penthouse, and a blogger for The Huffington Post.[3] In addition, she is a rotating interviewer for the Gothamist and a columnist for SexIs Magazine.[4] She has written for the Village Voice.[5]

She has authored many erotic short stories and has collected her own works, as well as others', in dozens of published collections, including specialized volumes on BDSM (two volumes of Naughty Spanking Stories from A to Z and the He's On Top & She's On Top collections) and lesbian erotica (Glamour Girls & First-Timers).[citation needed] She has also co-edited a number of collections with other editors and writers, including Alison Tyler, Stacy Bias, Wendy Caster, Julie May, and Christopher Pierce.[citation needed]

From 2005 to 2010, she was the curator for a monthly erotic reading series, In the Flesh, in New York City.[6]

Personal life

She identifies as bisexual, saying in 2006, "I think ideally I'd like to have a male lover and a female lover, either a triad situation or one on one."[7]

Kramer has been a resident of Teaneck, New Jersey.[8]

Awards

She received a 2009 Independent Publisher Book Award for the Tasting Him and Tasting Her anthologies.[9] She received the National Leather Association International's Samois Anthology Award for 2012 for Surrender: Erotic Tales of Female Pleasure and Submission, for 2016 for Dirty Dates: Erotic Fantasies For Couples, and for 2019 for The Big Book Of Submission Volume 2.[10]

Bibliography

As author

As editor

References

  1. ^ Bussel, Rachel Kramer. "Living Single". TechnoDyke.com. TechnoDyke.com. Retrieved 21 March 2007. [self-published source]
  2. ^ Bussel, Rachel Kramer. "Jewish smut-writer available". 614: HBI eZINE. Waltham, Massachusetts: Brandeis University. Retrieved 28 December 2016. [self-published source]
  3. ^ "Rachel Kramer Bussel (profile)". The Huffington Post. 16 December 2011. Retrieved 28 December 2016.
  4. ^ "Contributor | Award Winning Author of Erotica Rachel Kramer Bussel (profile)". edenfantasys.com. Web Merchants Inc. Retrieved 28 December 2016. [self-published source]
  5. ^ "Rachel Kramer Bussel". Village Voice. Retrieved 12 June 2022.
  6. ^ "In the Flesh". Retrieved 12 June 2022.
  7. ^ Bussel, Rachel Kramer. "Rachel Kramer Bussel". Eros Zine (Interview). Interviewed by Abby Ehmmann. New York: Darkside Productions, Inc. Archived from the original on 13 April 2006. Retrieved 28 December 2016.[self-published source]
  8. ^ Sullivan, Al. "A hot night at the bookstoreWriters of women's erotica to talk about craft and passion", The Hudson Reporter, February 5, 2017. Accessed November 3, 2017. "One of the things that former Jersey City resident Rachel Kramer Bussel learned as she edited her latest book on women's erotica is that exploring personal passion can be very liberating.... Currently a resident of Teaneck, she lived briefly in Jersey City."
  9. ^ "Announcing 2009 IPPY Awards National and Regional Results". Retrieved 12 June 2022.
  10. ^ 🖉"List of winners - Living In Leather".
  11. ^ "Rachel Kramer Bussel". Cleis Press. Retrieved 12 June 2022.
  12. ^ "Rachel Kramer Bussel". Seal Press. 27 June 2017. Retrieved 12 June 2022.

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