Tristan Taormino is the editor of Hot Lesbian Erotica and theBest Lesbian Erotica series, now celebrating its 10th anniversary, and she is the author ofTristan Taormino's True Lust and Down and Dirty Sex Secrets. She is a columnist for theVillage Voice, Taboo, andVelvet Park, and her writing has also appeared inVibe, Spectator, The Advocate, and more than 15 anthologies. Tristan has been named to several media lists, includingOut magazine's 100 Gay Success Stories of the Year and The Advocate's Best & Brightest Gay and Lesbian People Under 30. She has been featured in more than 200 publications, including theNew York Times, Redbook, Cosmopolitan, Glamour, Entertainment Weekly, Details, New York magazine, Men's Health, andPlayboy. Tristan has also appeared on CNN, HBO'sReal Sex, NBC'sThe Other Half, MSBNC'sScarborough Country, The Howard Stern Show, Ricki Lake, MTV, Oxygen, the Discovery Channel, and over 50 radio shows. She lectures at top colleges and universities including Yale, Brown, Columbia, Smith, Vassar, and NYU, where she speaks on gay and lesbian issues, sexuality and gender, and feminism. She lives in New York City.
