Cecilia Tan is “simply one of the most important writers, editors, and innovators in contemporary American erotic literature” for her pioneering efforts to combine erotica with fantasy and science fiction, according to Susie Bright. RT Magazine awarded her Career Achievement in Erotica in 2015 and their prestigious Pioneer Award, and her works have racked up a number of other awards over the years as well. She is the founder of Circlet Press, Inc., publishers of erotic science fiction and fantasy, as well as the author of many books, including the ground-breaking erotic sf/fantasy short story collections Black Feathers (HarperCollins) and White Flames (Running Press), and the Magic University series (Riverdale Avenue Books). Her short stories have appeared in Ms. Magazine, Asimov’s Science Fiction, Absolute Magnitude, Strange Horizons, and tons of other places.

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."