I grew up in Southern California, where I rode horses, skipped class, and majored in surfers. When I decided to get serious about being a writer -- little did I know what that would entail! -- and got married to my amazing husband and frequent creative collaborator, Ray Sawhill (with me in the photo above), I moved to New York City.

I’ve written humor pieces, plays, fiction, movie reviews, celebrity profiles, and food and music journalism. My writing has been published in all kinds of places, from blogs you’ve never heard of to national publications like The New Yorker, The New York Times and The Atlantic. Most recently my humor piece "Theater Gifts" was published in Scene4 Magazine. Four of my humor pieces have been included in New Yorker “Best Of” anthologies.

My naughty collection of sci-fi and horror erotica stories, “Deep Inside,“ was published by Tor in 2007. It was listed as one of the top ten erotic books by the erotica maven and extraordinary writer/editor, Rachel Kramer Bussel. It was praised by the legendary adult star Ron Jeremy, and it was picked by the great Maxim Jakubowski for inclusion in his “Mammoth Book of Best New Erotica.”

Although many of my relatives pretend I never wrote the book, I’m pleased to say that I’ve received lots of emails from fans. Several readers informed me that, while they loved my writing, I was in need of a spanking. One reader even offered to pay me $500 to don high heels and walk all over him. I turned him down, but not without reluctance. After all, $500 is more than I usually make from writing.

I also create live theater and new media. With my husband Ray Sawhill and the film director Matt Lambert, I co-wrote and co-produced a webseries entitled “The Fold.” We were enormously pleased when the wonderful film critic David Chute compared "The Fold" to early Almodovar.

Ray and I co-wrote and co-produced an 11 hour long audiobook, a raunchy Hollywood satire entitled “Sex Scenes.” We're very proud of it. It's nothing if not ambitious: 30 actors recorded the voices of more than 50 characters! We’re selling “Sex Scenes” as a CD and as a download. It can probably be obtained free via BitTorrent, grrrrr. But Ray and I really hope everyone will show a little class and buy it off our website instead.

Our most recent collaboration was the one act comedy "The Last Artist in New York City," which was performed at PS 122 in May 2009 in a production directed by Jason Jacobs of Theatre Askew. It was acted by two of our favorite performers, Karen Grenke and Jake Thomas.