Susie Bio & Links
Susie Bright, born March 25, 1958
* Memoir: Big Sex Little Death
*Local Color: Editor, Santa Cruz Noir
* In Bed With Susie Bright podcast and archive
* National best-sellers, including The Sexual State of the Union, Full Exposure, and The Best American Erotica
* Founding Editor: On Our Backs, The Best American Erotica, Herotica
* Audible Editor at Large, & Producer: The Bright List
Featuring works by: Malcolm X, Margaret Atwood, Frank O’Hara, Pablo Neruda, Martin Luther King, Che Guevara, Cornel West, Gary Snyder, Charles Bukowski, Noam Chomsky, Ron Kovic and Bruce Springsteen, Betty Medsger, Dorothy Allison, Dan Savage, Tony Hillerman, Joy Harjo, Octavia Butler, and Dave Hickey.
* Host of the first and longest-running podcast in history, In Bed with Susie Bright, 2000 - 2022.
* Screenwriter, talent, & consultant for the Wachowskis’ Bound, Lizzie Borden’s Erotique, Rob Epstein and Jeffrey Friedman’s Celluloid Closet, Criterion Collection's reissue of Belle de Jour, Kino Lorber/Juliet Bashore’s reissue of Kamikaze Hearts, Monika Treut’s The Virgin Machine; and in television, thanks to Joey Soloway: Six Feet Under’s last season, and Transparent’s first season.
* Contributing Editor &/or Columnist: New York Times Book Review, San Francisco Review of Books, Salon, Forum, BUST, Jezebel, Playboy, Penthouse Forum, Talking Points Memo
* Professor of first university course on erotic cinema,"The Politics of Sexual Representation.” (1986, 1995, 1996)
Producer/Writer/Host: “How to Read a Dirty Movie,” and “All-Girl Action: The History of Lesbian Erotica.”
* Donor, “Susie Bright and On Our Backs Archive," Rare Manuscript Collection at The Human Sexuality Archives, Cornell University
* Lambda Literary Award, Firecracker Award: “Nothing But the Girl: The Blatant Lesbian Image,” with Jill Posener
* 2017, Humanist Award
*1986, 1st woman member/critic of the XRCO, Fourth-Estate Division
* Editor, Arion Press: Limited fine art editions with authors and artists Peter Sagal, Chun Yu, Margaret Atwood, Audrey Niffenegger, Pablo Neruda, and Nicholas McGegan.
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