Susie Bright

AUTHOR, EDITOR, PUBLISHER

Editor, Santa Cruz Noir, Akashic Press, 2017

Co-Author with Aretha Bright, Mother/Daughter Sex Advice, Bright Stuff, 2012

Author, The Erotic Screen: Volume 1, Bright Stuff, 2011

Author, Big Sex Little Death, Seal Press, 2011

Author, Love and Lust: A Sex Journal, Chronicle Books, 2010

Editor, Bitten, Chronicle Books, 2009

Editor, X: The Erotic Treasury, Chronicle Books, 2008

Series Editor, Best American Erotica, Simon and Schuster, 1993 - 2008

Editor, Three Kinds of Asking For It, Eric Albert, Greta Christina, and Jill Soloway, edited by Susie Bright, Simon and Schuster, 2005

Editor, Three the Hard Way, by William Harrison, Greg Boyd, and Tsaurah Litzky, edited by Susie Bright, Simon and Schuster, 2004

Mommy's Little Girl: Susie Bright on Sex, Motherhood, Pornography, and Cherry Pie, Thunders Mouth, 2004

How To Write a Dirty Story: Reading, Writing, and Publishing Erotica, Simon and Schuster, 2002

Full Exposure: Opening Up to Sex and Creativity, HarperSanFrancisco, 1999



The Sexual State of the Union, Simon & Schuster, 1997, 1998

Author and Co-Editor, Nothing But the Girl: the Blatant Lesbian Image, Cassell, 1996

SexWise, Cleis Press, 1995

Susie Bright's Sexual Reality: A Virtual Sex Reader, Cleis Press , 1992

Editor, Herotica III, Penguin USA, 1994

Editor, Herotica II, Penguin USA, 1992

Susie Sexpert's Lesbian Sex World, Cleis Press, 1990

Editor, Herotica, Down There Press, 1988

Susie Bright LLC, 1986 - present

ARCHIVE

Susie Bright Papers & On Our Backs Records, 1978-2013, Cornell University Library, Rare and Manuscript Collections

BLOG

Susie Bright's Journal, 2004 - present

AUDIO

Editor-at-Large and Executive Producer, The Bright List, Audible, Inc., 2011 - present

Audie Award Winner-Executive Producer, 2014; Audie Award Nominee-Executive Producer, 2013-2015

Executive Producer and Host, In Bed with Susie Bright, on Audible.com, 2000-present

Author and Director, Full Exposure, Produced by HarperAudio, 1999

Contributing Author and Perfomer, Food, Sex and Relationships, with Harriet Lerner and Mollie Katzen, produced by Worley Management and Sounds True, 1997

Contributing Author and Perfomer, Cyborgasm, produced by Lisa Palac and Ron Gommpertz, Heydey/Time Warner, 1994.

Contributing Author and Perfomer, The Edge of the Bed, produced by Lisa Palac, Heydey/Time Warner,1995.

Editor and Performer, Herotica, produced by Passion Press, 1995

Editor, Herotica 2, produced by Passion Press, 1995

Editor, Herotica 3, produced by Passion Press, 1997

TELEVISION, VIDEO, AND FILM

Producer/Director, Transparent: Behind The Scenes on Audible, Season 1, Amazon Studios, 2014

Special Feature Guest, Writer, Consultant, Reissue of "Belle de Jour," (Luis Buñuel) produced by Issa Massu, Criterion Collection, 2011

Featured Guest, Writer, Consultant, 1969, produced by Rob Epstein, broadcast on The History Channel, 2009

Featured Guest, Six Feet Under, produced by HBO, broadcast on HBO, 2006

Featured Guest, Writer, Consultant, Retrosexual: The 80s, produced by VH1, 2004

Featured Guest, Writer, Consultant, Sex in the 20th Century, narrated by Peter Coyote, produced by MPH Entertainment, broadcast on History Channel, April 2001

Featured Guest, Writer, Consultant A Return to Modesty, produced by Lifetime Television, August 1999

Subject and Script Consultant, Documentary feature, Susie Bright, Sex Pest, produced by Mike Bluett, directed by Cheryl Farthing, for Channel 4, London, England, November 1998

Script Consultant, Writer, Consultant, and Featured Cameo, Bound, produced by Dino DeLaurentis, and directed by Larry and Andy Wachowski, 1996.

Script Consultant, Writer, and Co-star, The Celluloid Closet, produced by Telling Pictures and directed by Rob Epstein and Jeffrey Friedman, 1995.

Screenwriter, Let's Talk About Sex, produced by Brandon Chase, and directed by Lizzie Borden, 1994

Feature Subject, Writer, Consultant, Documentary Feature, Reel Sex #8, HBO, Produced by Patty Kaplan, March 1994

Producer and Narrator, All-Girl Action, 1990

Producer and Narrator, How To Read a Dirty Movie, 1990.

Co-Writer and Co-star, The Virgin Machine, directed by Monica Treut, W. Germany/US, 1988

THEATER

Director and Producer, Actor, Girls Gone Bad, 1983

Director and Producer, Actor, Knife Paper Scissors, 1984

GAMES

Creator and Author, I Dare You Cards, Chronicle Books, 2010

PERIODICALS & WEB

Editor, Susie Bright's Journal, 2004 - present

Golden Dukes Annual Judge, Talking Points Memo, 2007 - present

Syndicated Columnist, Jezebel, 2009

Syndicated Columnist, Alternet, 2007

Syndicated Columnist, Huffington Post, 2006

Columnist, CRAFT, 2006-2009

Columnist, Bust, 2002-2005

Columnist, Playboy, 1999-2000

Columnist, Libida, 2000-2001

Contributing Editor, Salon, 1997-2000

Founding Editorial Board, Out magazine, 1992-1993

Contributing Editor, San Francisco Review of Books, 1992-1994

Editor, On Our Backs, 1984-1991

Contributing Editor, Penthouse Forum, 1987-1989

Frequent Contributor: Esquire, New York Times, Elle, Dwell, Playboy, MS., The Realist, UTNE Reader, San Francisco Chronicle, San Jose Mercury News, Hungry Minds Review, Village Voice, & The Stranger.

LEGAL

• Co-Plaintiff, ACLU v. Gonzales (C.O.P.A. case), Supreme Court, 2003-2006

--Judgement in favor of Plaintiff

• Consultant, Little Sisters Book and Art Emporium v. Commissioner of Customs and Revenue and Minister of National Revenue - S.C.B.C. Action No. L020443, Queens Court, Canada, 2003-2004

--Judgement in favor of Plaintiff

• Plaintiff, Bright v. Los Angeles Unified Sch. Dist. , 18 Cal.3d 450, 1974-1976

--Judgement in favor of Plaintiff



PERFORMANCE/CLASSES/PUBLIC LECTURES

Sexual State of the Union Address

92nd Street Y, New York

Alfred U., New York

Antioch University, Ohio

University of California at Berkeley

University of Colorado, Boulder

Bryn Mawr College

Carnegie Mellon

California State University at Chico

Cornell University

Florida State University

Gay and Lesbian Community Center, New York

Harvey Milk Democratic Club, San Francisco

Haverford College, Philadelphia

Hobart and William Smith Colleges

Humboldt State Univesity

Hunter College, NYC

University of Indiana, Bloomington

University of Wisconsin at Madison

McGill University

University of Michigan at Ann Arbor

MIT

Murfreesboro State University, TN

Ohio State

University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill

Northwestern University

University of Pennsylvania

Smith College

Society for the Scientific Study of Sex

Solo Mio Performance Festival, Boston

University of Toronto

Tucson Public Library

Tulane University

Vassar College

Washington State University, Bellingham

Wayne State University

Wellesley College, Massachusetts

Wesleyan Univerisity

Williams College

Sex Education in the Doctor's Office

University of California, San Francisco

University of California, Berkeley

The Politics of Sexual Representation

University of California at Santa Cruz

The Case of Pornography, Keynote speaker

UCSB conference on Pornography and Censorship, Santa Barbara

Reading, Writing and Rethinking Erotica

Esalen Institute

Omega Institute

New College of California

How To Read a Dirty Movie, film show and lecture

HBO Broadcast

Virginia Tech

Hamburg Gay Film Festival

Berlin Gay Film Festival

Castro Theater, San Francisco

University of California at Santa Cruz

Pacific Film Archive, University of California at Berkeley

Nuart Theater, Los Angeles

Massachusetts Institute of Technology

Collective for Living Cinema

Dobie Theater, Austin

Roxie Theater, San Francisco

San Francisco State University

Stanford University

Cal Arts Valencia

The Victoria Theater

All Girl Action, The History of Lesbian Eroticism in Hollywood, film show & lecture

Castro Theater, San Francisco

University of Washington, Seattle

British Film Institute

Amsterdam Gay & Lesbian Film Festival, Holland

Nuart Theater, Los Angeles

University of Minnesota, Minneapolis

Hallwalls, Buffalo

Chatham College, Pittsburgh

Gay Film Festival, Music Box Theater, Chicago

Lesbian and Gay Film Festival, Castro Theater, San Francisco

Sex In Public: Erotic Expression, Censorship, and Sexual Repression, a lecture

American Library Association, San Francisco

Modern Language Association , San Francisco

University of Indiana, Bloomington

Slim's Spoken Word Series, San Francisco

Yale University

University of Arkansas

Cornell University

Wesleyan University

Amherst College,

Harvard University

Brown University

State University of New York, Binghamton

Hunter College, New York

Sex Educators and Erotica, a lecture

Society for the Scientific Study of Sex

Institute for the Study of Human Sexuality

Keynote Speaker

BlogHer

San Francisco Public Library

Crown Gallery

University of Kansas at Lawrence

Sacred Elixirs

University of Ohio at Columbus

L.A. Times Book Festival

Romantic Times

Seattle Public Library

U.C. Irvine

AWARDS & BESTSELLERS

Audie Award Winner, Carrie's Story, Executive Producer, 2014

Audie Award Nominee, The Invisible Heart, Executive Producer, 2014

Audie Award Nominee, Naked At Any Age, Executive Producer, 2013

Gail Rich Award, Santa Cruz, 2002

Lambda Literary Award, Nothing But the Girl, 1997

Firecracker Award, Nothing But the Girl, 1997

Utne Reader Visionary, 1995

Full Exposure, National Bestseller

Best American Erotica, National Bestseller

Sexual State of the Union, National Bestseller