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ABOUT THE AUTHOR:
Teresa Lamai was born in a
car crash on Sandy
Boulevard, Portland, Oregon,
in 2003.
The woman in the passenger seat had been a dancer and a refugee activist,
but a back injury from the crash left her laid up with far too much time on
her hands.
The world was turning just a little grey. Though she'd never written fiction
before,
somehow she found herself writing inappropriate stories, ones she couldn't
possibly put
her real name to. And so Teresa Lamai came to life.
Teresa Lamai’s erotic stories have appeared in anthologies ranging from Best
Women’s Erotica
to Zane’s Caramel Flava to Mammoth Book of Best New Erotica. Online, her
stories have won awards
at Clean Sheets.
Reviewers have called her work "breathless," "searing," "miraculous," and
"odd."
She finds her inspiration in other art forms such as painting and dance.
This anthology presents
the best of her stories over the years--and some new ones besides.
Nowadays Teresa's real-life self still works in a refugee agency, and has
begun writing novels
and radio plays which have brought her a tiny bit of recognition and a huge
amount of happiness.
When she's not writing she reads novels, studies human rights law, takes on
great quixotic projects
in her garden, and bakes fantastic quantities of cinnamon rolls. Occasional
dancing still occurs,
especially when she learns that someone has enjoyed reading what she wrote.
She's chosen the charity
Amnesty International, of which she's been a member since 1984,
for its uncompromising defense of human rights around the world. We all of
us have the right to live
free of exploitation and oppression, so that we can get on with doing the
marvelous
things we were born to do. |
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