Hello, sexy written word enthusiasts! Today it is our very great privilege to introduce you to those wily writers who bravely offered up their creations for the 2026 Seattle Erotic Art Festival Literary Anthology. Please, dear reader, take some time and become familiar with the 2026 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’s too soon to share the anthology with you, but you can at least get to know the creative minds behind it.
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 at 9 are somewhat exaggerated — it was just a hickey.
Marissa Bea
Marissa is a Seattle-based editor, writer, box office manager, trivia host, and art model. In addition to working for SEAF each year, she volunteers for many wonderful organizations, including the Redmond Historical Society, the International Buster Keaton Society, Scarecrow Video, Shut Up and Write, and the Center for Sex Positive Culture. Somehow she also finds time for soccer and yoga, as well as spending time cuddling her sweetie in front of the fireplace.
V. Black
V. Black is a poet and embodied leadership coach exploring power, intuition, and the wild edges of becoming. Her work blends spirituality, somatics, and a playful reverence for the erotic.
Alice Cameron
Alice Cameron is an experienced writer, new to kink and reveling in the exploration of BDSM as an active participant and author.
Gene Clements
Gene retired from his architecture practice in 2011 and soon began writing and illustrating short stories as a way to stay out of trouble. It didn’t work – he took up the habit of writing and illustrating funny erotica, mostly about old people. Since then, Gene has published 120 short stories, 6 short story collections, 2 coloring books and 4 novels, including “The Great American Tilly and Elmer Novel” and “Coming of Age in South Branch”. These can be found online and in 8 recent editions of the “Literary Art Anthology”, published each year in conjunction with the Seattle Erotic Art Festival.
Kerry Cox
Kerry Cox is a Pacific Northwest poet whose work explores intimacy, embodiment, and the psychological landscapes of desire. Her writing blends lyrical precision with emotional depth, drawing influence from myth, nature, and the complexities of human connection. She creates work that examines vulnerability, longing, and resilience through a vivid, immersive poetic voice.
L Bishop Eames
L lives in the PNW. He thinks too hard, loves too hard, pines too hard, grabs too hard. He has written in service of creativity, but now seeks writing as a way of being and a way of surviving and a way of attuning to himself and to the people around him.
Fiasco!
Living in Seattle for almost three years. Leather bear, pup that is big into BDSM especially shibari. Be my next macramé project?
Alicia E. Goranson
Alicia E. Goranson is a Seattle-based author, playwright, and audio dramatist. Her debut novel “Supervillainz” is a Lambda Literary finalist. Her first audio drama “The Mask of Inanna” won the 2012 Parsec Award for Best Speculative Fiction Audio Drama (Long Form). Her erotic writing has been in anthologies such as Tristan Taormino’s “Take Me There: Trans and Genderqueer Erotica.” Her current project is another audio drama; a romantic tragedy called “Vampire: The Masquerade: Blood Doll.”
Shana Graham
Shana Graham is a Seattle-based writer, producer, and sex and relationship coach. Her work has appeared or is forthcoming in Cimarron Review, Witness, The Los Angeles Review, CRAFT, Rust + Moth, and others. Shana also teaches somatic writing at Seattle’s Hugo House and creates living stories in the form of events filled with music, artistry, and mayhem.
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, is published by Polari Press.
Peter Huisenga
Peter Huisenga creates the kind of art and stories your parents warned you about: lush, clever, and dangerous enough to make you blush in public. His work is sharp-witted, kink-friendly, sensuous, rich in detail and has the underlying idea that desire is an art form. His work celebrates authentic emotions, pleasure for the sake of pleasure, hungry bodies, and the occasional well-timed smirk.
Megan Landon
Megan Landon is an award winning, Austin-based writer of sci-fi, fantasy, and paranormal romance and erotica. Her stories weave nature, science, language, multi-ethnic roots, and magic to explore the shades of nuance between light and dark, magic and reality, and truth and fiction. Megan’s work has appeared in Bust Magazine, and her short stories and novellas have been recognized by SEAF 2025 Foundation, All the Filthy Details podcast 2024, the Passionate Plume 2024 and 2025, the Prism Contest 2025, and the Golden Pigtails.
Marie Laurent
I am a multi-faceted person with several identities, all with one thing in common: passion. For years, I was a researcher and adjunct professor. Motherhood also defined me—in the most favorable manner—and raising my daughter is my highest achievement. I own a research consultancy with a handful of dedicated employees; it is work I love. A hopeless romantic, I adore art, music, nature, sensuality or experiences that transcend me to the deepest levels of intimacy and meaning in life. Now, with an exploratory spirit, I am breaking free from constraints to express my uncharted passions.
Melissa Lee
Melissa is an erotica author and personal essayist. Her work features the depth of emotions inside sexual encounters. She reads her short stories and talks about writing on her podcast, Bedtime Stories. Her personal essays have been published at Rebelle Society and Refinery29. She lives in Seattle.
Elizabeth Lewis
Elizabeth Lewis is a moderately accomplished creature of some amusement. She incited a small town to perform amateur theatrics, flirted with a man who was to be engaged, and often went about town with skirts above the ankle.
Brianna Malotke
Brianna Malotke is a writer with a love for pole dancing. She’s been a “Writer in Residence” at the Chateau d’Orquevaux in France and an Artist in Residence at Atelier Ireland. She has over 90 publications in various anthologies, including SEAF’s 2025 Literary Anthology. Most recently, she won the Azerate Poetry Prize 2025. While most of Malotke’s work is within the realms of horror and nightmares, she enjoys writing about love, mental health, and relationships. She has 5 standalone poetry collections. Under the pen name Tori Fields, she has 11 books published with Last Chapter Press.
Desiree McCullough
Desiree McCullough is a creative nonfiction writer who delves into the delicious ways women, especially middle-aged moms, embrace sensuality and sexuality post-purity culture. Her work has appeared in multiple literary journals and publications including Huffington Post with an upcoming piece in MOAN Zine’s 2026 print edition. She shares her provocative writing and burlesque journey as Desi Hornez on her Substack “My Clavicle Romance.”
Medusa
Medusa is a Seattle based artist photographer and professional model, who prefers to collaborate on projects that provoke inspiration and summon emotional responses.
John Nedwill
An Irishman living abroad. Do not be fooled by the tired eyes and the grey hair. They are merely a front. Behind them lie a passionate heart, an eager soul and a sharp mind. Enjoys writing stories, telling tales and playing games. Lives an analogue life, perfecting skills in calligraphy, bookbinding and paper making. Perhaps will turn professional one day, but for now is content to write without pressure and with a glass of fine Irish whiskey by his side. Life is not just for the young – it’s for everyone.
Chamber O.
Chamber O. lives in the secret third place, where she is neither joking nor serious. A place of perpetual ambiguities and agnosticism and absurdism. A place to be or not to be.
Tár Odinsen
Tár Odinsen writes for business by day and for pleasure by night. Selected non-erotic works appear under their given name in the Queer Poetry Anthology (a project of the Washington State poet laureate), and in the literary translation journal Metamorphoses.
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.
Ben Robertson
Ben Robertson lives and sometimes sleeps near Charlotte, NC. His work appears in various journals, under various names. He is of the widely varied sort.
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.
Sir Panda
Sir Panda (He/Him) is a polyamorous Dominant living in Seattle. He originated the Passport Program at the CSPC in 2011, teaching BDSM basics to new members. He founded the View From the Top discussion group, now online on fourth Tuesdays. Sir Panda has served as an event creator and host for the CSPC and Arborea Falls, and Program Lead for KinkFest 2023. He has been a presenter for the CSPC, Pragmatic Kink, Wicked Grounds, the Kink Center, and Leather Reign. He started his writing career with his high school literary magazine, and has been published in comic books and short story anthologies.
Jessica Sokol
Jessica has been called daughter, friend, sister, artist, musician, girlfriend, Christian, lover, wife, assistant, witch, dancer, student, female, soldier, bitch, warrior, widow, slut, colleague, mother, queen, seer, white, counselor, chief. She is all and none of these. Her work moves through memory, desire, and the body, tracing erotic energy, reclaiming sensation, and celebrating the fire of being fully present. She lives in the Pacific Northwest.
Sumu Tasib
Sumu (Su) Tasib is an author and scientist living in Seattle, Washington, and was a 2023 Jack Straw Fellow. A Boy Named Su is their first book, a collection of non-fiction stories and essays about their journey with genderqueerness. They are currently working on a collection of short stories, the first of which, “Through the Walls,” was selected for inclusion in the 2022 Seattle Erotic Arts Festival (SEAF). Su’s poetry has also been published in the SEAF Literary Art Anthology 2023, and received the 2023 Literary Editor’s Choice Award. Su was also invited to be a featured writer for SEAF 2024.
Teeebone
Teeebone is a writer who has been featured in the Seattle Erotic Literary Art Anthology in 2024 and 2025 with 3 short stories published in total so far. Inspired by Chuck Tingle, he began writing humorous erotica in the spring of 2022.
Luigi Thicket
Luigi studied creative writing at a small college in Northern California. He now lives in the Pacific Northwest and spends most of his time writing and thinking about human behavior. Neither a pessimist not optimist, he strives for magical realism. Luigi was delighted to have one of his stories selected by SEAF in 2023 and to share an excerpt from the stage with all you wonderful people!
June Wilder
June was the one you called when the world was on fire.
Sometimes literally.
She showed up. Held it down. Kept the sky from falling. Then a car crash in 2025 rewired her brain, and the poems came anyway.
She didn’t set out to be a writer.
The words just started happening.
These poems arrived like breath after drowning:
sweet, sharp, sacred, and necessary.
They live in the space between surrender and survival, sugar and ache, softness and steel.
They are what the body said
when it finally got a turn to speak.
Bill Wolak
Bill Wolak is a poet, collage artist, and photographer who has published his nineteenth book of poetry entitled What Love Calms Only With Nakedness with Expeditions International Publishing House. His collages and photographs have appeared recently in the 2026 Dirty Show in Detroit, the 2025 Rochester Erotic Arts Festival, the 2025 Amorous Art in Indianapolis, 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).
Please join us this May 1st, 2nd, and 3rd at the Seattle Center Exhibition Hall for literary readings, signing opportunities, and all the other extraordinary activities that make SEAF what it is!