Laura Antoniou is the author of the acclaimed Marketplace series of erotic novels and the editor of the groundbreaking "Leatherwomen" anthologies, as well as several other fiction and non-fiction collections. Her work has been translated into Spanish, German, Hebrew, Japanese, and Korean. Her short fiction, articles, essays, and rants are collected in The Catalyst and Other Tales. Antoniou's Marketplace series depicts a vivid and secretive world, with Libido Magazine describing it as "a world so vivid in sequel after sequel, it takes on a reality of its own, one that's visually hard to let go of once the reader has put down the book."