Hello, book loving babes! Today is all about those vampish masters of the page who bravely offered up their creations for the 2025 Seattle Erotic Art Festival Literary Anthology. We would love for you to take some time and become familiar with the 2025 Literary Artists.
From across the US to across the pond, these writers shared with us their visions of eroticism, sexuality, and a gamut of emotions. It is our great honor to present the literary artists who heeded our call to answer the question, “What is erotic?”
7
7 loves writing, editing, singing, impact play, oxford commas, & sexy humans. Sometimes ve does 2 or more of these simultaneously. Ve is a fan of neopronouns and deep conversations. 7 has declared verself the 7th worst guitarist in the world, and welcomes challenges to vis title. Rumors that 7 ate 9 are somewhat exaggerated — it was just a hickey.
Andrew Engelson
Andrew Engelson is a Seattle-base writer and freelance journalist. He’s been published in two previous SEAF literary anthologies and likes to write filthy poetry for fun. He’s a switchy rope top who’s been learning Shibari and suspension for several years now. He has no opinions about Neflix shows but does enjoy hiking when he’s not reading, writing, or fucking. Someone once told him he has a reputation for being “very bisexual” and takes that as the highest of compliments.
August
August is transgender, bisexual, and very kinky, as well as a writer, who enjoys long walks. Water was his first love, and so far nothing else has come close.
B
B (she/her) is your friendly neighborhood perv from Chicago.
Ben Robertson
Ben Robertson is a poet, historian, and educator based in the Piedmont Region of North Carolina. He has published poems in a number of journals under various pseudonyms and in 2024 received a Pushcart Prize nomination.
Bill Wolak
Bill Wolak is a poet, collage artist, and photographer who has published his eighteenth book of poetry entitled All the Wind’s Unfinished Kisses with Ekstasis Editions. His collages and photographs have appeared recently in the 2025 Dirty Show in Detroit, the 2024 Rochester Erotic Arts Festival, the 2020 International Festival of Erotic Arts (Chile), the 2020 Seattle Erotic Art Festival, the 2018 Montreal Erotic Art Festival, and Naked in New Hope 2018. He was a featured artist in the book Best of Erotic Art (London, 2022).
BlackLight
BlackLight can be described as a volcanic, artistic force of Nature’s creation bursting with perpetual enthusiasm. A multi-media, multi-dimensional artist, he delights in detonating spirits by embodying safe spaces, & leaving intentionally empowering experiences to litter his wake like a spirit boat on the lake of existence.
Bodhi Holt-Welhouse
Bodhi is an artist & writer whose work channels the unspoken complexities of human emotion and experience. With a foundation in psychology & a deep connection to spirituality, Bodhi’s creations explore themes of resilience, transformation, & the beauty of imperfection. Through pottery, painting, & storytelling, they invite audiences into raw, authentic spaces, evoking powerful emotional responses. Inspired by the quiet strength of nature & the sacred cycles of life and death, Bodhi’s art seeks to spark conversations, foster connection, & offer a mirror for self-reflection & growth.
Brianna Malotke
Brianna Malotke is a writer with a love for pole dancing. During fall of 2023 she was a “Writer in Residence” at the Chateau d’Orquevaux in France. She’s both an active member of the Horror Writers Association and the co-chair of the Seattle Chapter. While most of Malotke’s work is within the realms of horror and nightmares, she enjoys writing much more spicy and romantic stories as well. You can find her completed romance novella series, Sugar & Steam, published with Last Chapter Press under the pen name “Tori Fields.” Her next series, Ink & Love, gets even hotter!
Chelsea Malia Brown
Chelsea is a disabled artist, writer and photographer, who creates work about chronic/mental health. She studies balance through light and color, using her work to process physical/emotional pain, celebrate the body, and reclaim lost power. She’s motivated by existing in a system that only understands healing in a linear context and disregards invisible pain. She has a BA and minor in poetry from the UW and her artwork, writing, and photography have been published and exhibited worldwide, which she hopes will help de-stigmatize chronic and mental health and spread awareness for the reality of living with both.
Clea Salar
Clea Salar is a bi femme writer and specialist in all things fantastic. It seemed a natural progression from a childhood steeped in daydreams and make believe, which led to geekery and an obscene amount of role-playing in later years. She currently lurks in the shadow of a mountain, where she spins tails of a decidedly saucy nature. She likes chai, macarons, and the Oxford comma.
Drea Moothu
Drea is an artist, performer, poet and community organizer living on Turtle Island. In her bodies of work, she reclaims her narrative by using lustful imagery, highlighting desire and independence as a source of femme empowerment. Drea’s main focus is community work and cultivating a diverse art culture in her small town. You can find her running multiple events such as Queergasm, a 2SLGBTQ+ erotic storytelling event. Drea believes that storytelling isn’t only a vehicle for tragedy; it is to transform reality into what we dream it to be.
Edward Butcher
Edward was conceived in the Redwoods, then born in Berkeley during a full solar eclipse. He’s one of those sober, radical faerie, self-annoyed burner types who believes sex is sacred, yet has enjoyed scraping the mundane to unearth new graces within social, psychological and spiritual frameworks. He teaches, travels and sews, is a devoted friend, and defines his queerness as anti-capitalist. He is a monogamist and believes the world needs more estuaries and fewer containers.
Elizabeth Lewis
Elizabeth Lewis plays the harp, is charmed by London, mangles French phrases, loves amateur dramatics, and longs to be ensorcelled.
ferventfilth
ferventfilth (Kristine) has been living kink as a lifestyle for the past decade, and finds passion in BDSM, connection and community. Her experiences and reflections of submission, degradation, and the authenticity found in “playing” on the edge and the dynamic and trust that involves are strongly influential in her writings.
Gigi F.
Gigi F. grew up surrounded by the creativity and diversity of the Bay Area and now finds inspiration from the unapologetically deviant pleasures of Sin City. A Scorpio with a passion for the written word and eroticism, Gigi’s work focuses her freedom of expression on the complex topic of desire, often blending playful and surprising elements. Her creative journey continues to be shaped and fueled by her urge to titillate, seduce and arouse others through her sometimes raw, sometimes refined, provocative pieces on the too often unspoken or repressed erotic genre.
Greg Rubin
Greg Rubin was raised by a storyteller and he has been performing in public since he was a teenager. He believes that narrative is how humanity makes sense of the world we live in and that reality is often more the story we tell ourselves than any objective truth. He hopes that his stories cause us to look at the world in a different way and maybe feel seen. In addition to literature, Greg has been involved in SEAF since 2006 as a volunteer, performer, and other staff.
Isis Zystrid
Isis Zystrid is a poet who lives in Shoreline with her husband and cat Ferbert Pythagoras. She won the 2024 Editor’s Choice for poetry at the Seattle Erotic Art Festival. When she’s not writing or doing mutual aid work, she also enjoys getting caught in the rain.
Jacqueline
Jacqueline Gordon is a Seattle-based poet. She has an English degree from the University of California, Davis, and currently works as a content designer. She has been featured in Open Ceilings Magazine and she regularly publishes work on her website.
Jason Haaf
Jason Haaf is a writer and visual artist living in Brooklyn, New York. He believes in unruly perspectives and strong beginnings on both paper and film. His debut novel, Harsh Cravings, was published by Polari Press in 2022.
jen matko
jen matko is a late blooming librarian, writer, and photographer, living along the Columbia River with her cat.
Jodi Frisina’s journey into romance began early, sneaking steamy paperbacks from their grandmother’s hidden stash. Catholic school tried (and failed spectacularly) to smother that spark, but it only fueled a wilder imagination. Inspired by friends who double as muses, Jodi loves bringing fantasies to life and making them shimmer on the page. Their greatest joy? Reading these stories aloud to the very people who inspired them. Whether it’s a whispered story that lingers in the dark or a fantasy world brimming with heat and magic, Jodi wants readers to feel transported.
John Nedwill
An Irishman living abroad. Getting older and greyer, but still alive and still feeling the urges to write and tell stories – especially stories that make the spine (and other parts) tingle. Fully admits to being a dilettante and doing this for the sheer fun of it all. But that’s the best attitude to have, isn’t it? Loves tea, good Irish whiskey and grinning at strangers on the train. The calm exterior hides the passions within.
Kimberly Rei
Kimberly Rei loves chai lattes, storms, and fuzzy blankets. When she’s not arguing with Life, she’s lining up words and whipping them into twisted tales. In Kimberly’s dream-filled opinion, the world needs more wonder, more shivers, and more sensual adventures.
Leo Sparx
Leo Sparx is the award-winning author of The Fall of the House of Otter and The Murders in the Dude Morgue series. A recipient of the Foundation Award for Short Works from the Seattle Erotic Arts Festival (SEAF), Sparx has also contributed to several anthologies. Combining a deep fascination with the history of queer sex and a passion for literary metaphor, he crafts compelling stories that push boundaries and ignite the imagination. Inspired by classic literature, his work seamlessly blends steamy sensations with provocative themes.
Lyssandra Norton
A general PNW creator of things, this MFA hopes you enjoy her work.
Megan Landon
Megan Landon is an Austin-based writer of erotic fantasy and sci-fi romance. She writes intelligent heroines, supportive heroes, dark romance, and slightly off-center worlds. Her erotic flash fiction has appeared in Bust Magazine, and she is a regular collaborator with the Erotica Consortium.
Melissa Lee
Melissa is an intuitive, over-caffeinated, rainbow disco ball of a human who is obsessed with writing erotica as a sexual healing modality. When she’s not writing, she’s at the library, in a coffee shop, on her yoga mat, or sending podcast-length voice notes to her friends. She lives in Seattle.
oneagainst
oneagainst is a wide-ranging author of erotic stories. He writes stories of romance, heartbreak, transformation. Publishing regularly over the last few years, he has released sixteen books and numerous novellas and short stories on themes as broad as BDSM, femdom, forniphilia, transformation, tease and denial, edgeplay, adultery, political repression, and neurodivergence. Collectively, these stories have been viewed over four million times. He writes to highlight that the strength of a culture comes not from its conformity but its diversity. He believes that what matters most is what we say in the dark.
Ophir Reader
Ophir Reader is an erotic writer based in the Seattle area. Ophir is a fierce believer in the power of written and spoken erotica to excite, heal, connect, and open doors in minds and hearts. He has been an avid participant at SEAF over the last seven years. He welcomes feedback on his writing.
Pearly Sweetcake
I’m Pearly Sweetcake, a Somatica trained sex and relationship coach and wanna be erotica writer. I started sharing my stories on Instagram a few years ago. That kind of morphed into blogging about sex and relationships. I have a small following and have as much fun there as Insta will allow. I am Polyamorous and live in South Florida with my husband and two cats.
Polly Superstar
Polly Superstar is the author of Polly: Sex Culture Revolutionary, a vulnerable memoir that chronicles their journey in founding and stewarding two of San Francisco’s iconic sex culture institutions: Kinky Salon and Mission Control. They have been a latex fashion designer, artist, author, performer, spokesperson for sex culture, zine-maker, emcee, mentor, mentee, teacher, and student of life. Any pronouns work for them, as gender is a construct they don’t feel connected to.
Quantum Tease, PhD
Born from the collision of science and sexy, Quantum Tease, PhD, does too many things. They are a writer, performer, comedian, poet, and scientist; and are always trying to find a way to combine “all of the above.” You’ll never know if the glove is on or off until you dare to look.
R.E. York
I am a casual writer of poetry, inspired by lovers both past and present.
RK Cavil
RK Cavil lives in a constant state of superposition between wholesome and problematic, grotesque and saccharine, horror and wonder. Also, he lives in the PWN.
Shana Graham
Shana Graham is a Seattle-based writer, producer, and sex and relationship coach. Her work has appeared or is forthcoming in publications including Cimarron Review, Witness, The Los Angeles Review, CRAFT, and West Trade Review. She’s been anthologized in the Seattle Erotic Art Festival Literary Anthology and was the recipient of the SEAF Literary Foundation Award in Short Works. She also creates living stories in the form of large-scale events filled with music, madness, artistry, and general mayhem. You can find her at www.supershana.com.
Shane Guthrie
Shane currently lives in the beautiful Snoqualmie Valley in the town of Duvall, WA. He’s been writing poetry since 1993, erotic poetry makes up 0.01% of his work. His other hobbies include hiking, painting, gardening and climbing.
Sophia Choto
Sophia is an artist-writer residing in the Pacific Northwest. She is originally from Los Angeles. Sophia writes (and creates) for emotional clarity; therapy. She hopes understanding herself would help her understand other people better. She is most known for being a pianist and poet. She believes freestyling regular-and-compositional writing is an effective tool for self-remedy. Her favorite music genres are folk-punk, harsh noise, warm drone, and 5th Wave emo. She also loves horror films.
Stephanie
Stephanie is a writer in the Seattle-area who explores the intersections of eroticism, feminity, and food.
Sumu Tasib
Sumu (Su) Tasib is an author and scientist living in Seattle, Washington, and was selected as a 2023 Jack Straw Writer. A Boy Named Su is their first book, a collection of non-fiction stories and essays about their journey with genderqueerness. Their stories and poems have appeared in the 2022, 2023, and 2024 Seattle Erotic Arts Festivals (SEAF). Su received the 2023 Literary Editor’s Choice Award, and was invited to be a featured writer for SEAF 2024.
Teeebone
Teeebone is a returning writer with 2 short stories published in the Seattle Erotic Literary Art Anthology 2024. Inspired by Chuck Tingle, he began writing humorous erotica in the spring of 2022.
Tha Horny Housewife
Crystal Lynea Colbert Brown is an artist, academic, and athlete who intentionally writes poetry to make you feel good. She can be found keeping four humans under the age of 17 alive on a daily basis, and b/c there are only 24 hours in a day and she thinks a lot- the short poems are guaranteed to put a smile or smirk on your face. She has been published in the Seattle Erotic Arts Literary Anthology twice, as well as an anthology for, by, and about Black Women titled My Vulva and Me, Vol3. Another writing credit brought together visual and word artists, an annual effort titled, Ekphrasis.
The Dowager of Bees
The Dowager of Bees keeps asking if there’s really a difference between primal sex and sacred connection.
The Indelible Ms. C
The Indelible Ms. C’s life is a genuine representation of her authentic self: wild, weird, sexy, and unafraid. She finds joy in the creative expressions of art and music, the delight of culinary experiences, thrilling travel adventures, and the wonders of the natural world. Sex, to her, is liberating and fun and should be celebrated.
Viridiana
Viridiana is an avid reader, writer and sharer of information. They’ve always been drawn to the power of poetry and the communities that are built through art. They’re a Queer Chicana raised in Southern California. They’ve lived in the PNW for the last twelve years.
The Seattle Erotic Art Festival Literary Art Anthology 2025 will be available for sale in the SEAF Festival Store onsite during the 2025 Seattle Erotic Art Festival. The Anthology will also be available after the event at online retailers in both paperback and eBook formats.
Please join us this May 2nd, 3rd, and 4th at the Seattle Center Exhibition Hall for literary readings, signing opportunities, and all the other extraordinary activities that make SEAF what it is!
