Rachel Kramer Bussel

Rachel Kramer Bussel (born 1975) is an American author, columnist, and editor, specializing in erotica. She previously studied at the New York University School of Law and earned her bachelor’s degree in political science and women’s studies from the University of California, Berkeley.

Career

Bussel has been a Senior Editor at Penthouse Variations, a Contributing Editor to Penthouse, and a blogger for The Huffington Post. In addition, she is a rotating interviewer for the Gothamist and a columnist for SexIs Magazine. She has written for the Village Voice.

She has authored many erotic short stories and has collected her own works, as well as others’, in dozens of published collections, including specialized volumes on BDSM (two volumes of Naughty Spanking Stories from A to Z and the He’s On Top & She’s On Top collections) and lesbian erotica (Glamour Girls & First-Timers). She has also co-edited a number of collections with other editors and writers, including Alison Tyler, Stacy Bias, Wendy Caster, Julie May, and Christopher Pierce.

From 2005 to 2010, she was the curator for a monthly erotic reading series, In the Flesh, in New York City.

Personal life

She identifies as bisexual, saying in 2006, “I think ideally I’d like to have a male lover and a female lover, either a triad situation or one on one.”

Kramer has been a resident of Teaneck, New Jersey.

Awards

She received a 2009 Independent Publisher Book Award for the Tasting Him and Tasting Her anthologies. She received the National Leather Association International’s Samois Anthology Award for 2012 for Surrender: Erotic Tales of Female Pleasure and Submission, for 2016 for Dirty Dates: Erotic Fantasies For Couples, and for 2019 for The Big Book Of Submission Volume 2.

Bibliography

As author

As editor

References

External links

Official website

Rachel Kramer Bussel at Elle magazine

Rachel Kramer Bussel at the Internet Adult Film Database

“An Erotica Writer on Why So Many Women Are Into Kink”

“Erotica author is boring in the bedroom – and she likes it that way”