A PART OF THE HEART CAN’T BE EATEN

September 288 pages, 45 illustrations cloth, 978-1-4780-2022-6 $29.95tr/£25.99

Tristan Taormino is a writer, speaker, sex educator, and host of the podcast Sex Out Loud. A former syndicated columnist for The Village Voice, she is the author of numerous books, including Opening Up: A Guide to Creating and Sustaining Open Relationships, Down and Dirty Sex Secrets, and The Ultimate Guide to Anal Sex for Women She is the founding editor of the annual Best Lesbian Erotica anthologies, editor of The Ultimate Guide to Kink: BDSM, Role Play, and the Erotic Edge, and coeditor of The Feminist Porn Book: The Politics of Producing Pleasure Taormino has won four Lambda Literary Awards and eight Feminist Porn Awards, among other awards. She lives in Los Angeles.

September 240 pages, 17 illustrations paper, 978-1-4780-2492-7 $19.95tr/£16.99 cloth, 978-1-4780-2020-2 $84.95/£76.00

Kawika Guillermo is the author of Stamped: an antitravel novel and All Flowers Bloom. Kawika Guillermo is the pseudonym for Christopher B. Patterson, who is Associate Professor in the Social Justice Institute at the University of British Columbia and the author of Open World Empire: Race, Erotics, and the Global Rise of Video Games and Transitive Cultures: Anglophone Literature of the Transpacific