Cecilia Tan ("ctan") is the author of The Velderet: A Cybersex S/M Serial, a novel-length pulp adventure in which perverts fight to save their world (Circlet Press, 2001), and the erotic sf/f short fiction collections Telepaths Don't Need Safewords (Circlet Press, 1992), Black Feathers: Erotic Dreams (HarperCollins, 1998), and White Flames: Erotic Dreams (Running Press, 2008). Her short stories have appeared in dozens of magazines and anthologies, most recently Periphery: Erotic Lesbian Futures (ed. Lynne Jamneck, Lethe Press, 2008) and Aqua Erotica 2 (Melcher Media, 2006). Her most recent inclusion in Best American Erotica (Touchstone, 2006) is for the short-short stories "The Magician's Assistant" and "Seduction," originally published in Five Minute Erotica (ed. Carol Queen, Running Press, 2005). "Thought So" was reprinted in Best Women's Erotica 2003 (ed. Marcy Sheiner, Cleis Press). "In Silver A" was awarded an Honorable Mention in the Best of Soft SF contest. "Pearl Diver" was included in Best American Erotica 1996 (ed. Susie Bright, Touchstone, 1996). Other short fiction with sf/fantasy or magical realist content appears in the following anthologies: By Her Subdued, (Rosebud Books, 1995), No Other Tribute (Masquerade Books, 1995), Dark Angels (Cleis Press, 1995), Herotica 5 (Plume, 1997), Eros Ex Machina (Masquerade, May 1998), To Be Continued (Firebrand, November 1998), To Be Continued, Take Two (Firebrand, May 1999). As publisher and editor of Circlet Press, she has edited many anthologies of erotic science fiction and fantasy including Best Fantastic Erotica (2008), Erotic Fantastic: The Best of Circlet Press (2002), Mind & Body (2001), Sextopia: Stories of Sex and Society (2000), Sexcrime (2000), Stars Inside Her: Lesbian Erotic Fantasy (1999), Fetish Fantastic (1999), Cherished Blood (1997), Wired Hard 2 (1997) SexMagick 2 (1997), Tales from the Erotic Edge (1996), Erotica Vampirica (1996), Genderflex (1996), The New Worlds of Women (1996), S/M Futures (1995), S/M Pasts (1995), Selling Venus (1995), Of Princes and Beauties (1995), TechnoSex (1994), The Beast Within (1994), Blood Kiss (1994), Forged Bonds (1993), SexMagick (1993), and Worlds of Women (1993), all from Circlet. In 2005 she edited an anthology of erotic science fiction for Thunder's Mouth Press entitled Sex In The System that included such notables as Joe Haldeman, Shariann Lewitt, and Scott Westerfeld. SM Visions: The Best of Circlet Press came from Masquerade Books in 1994, and she also wrote the introduction to a new edition of John Norman's Tarnsman of Gor for that publisher. Tan received her master's degree in professional writing and publishing from Emerson College in 1994. She teaches erotic writing workshops and is a member of dormant BASFFWG (Boston Area Science Fiction Fantasy Writers Group). Tan also edits the annual preseason look at the New York Yankees, Bombers Broadside (Maple Street Press, annually), is a Senior Writer at Gotham Baseball Magazine, and still maintains an online baseball magazine, Why I Like Baseball (www.whyilikebaseball.com). More biographical info, political essays, and updates can be found at www.ceciliatan.com.