where else to find jen’s writing

 

 

 

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• “coming home,” Erotix: Literary Journal of Somatics, June 1, 2018

• “Jen Cross on Sex Out Loud with Tristan Taormino,” May 2018

•  Talking Writing Magazine: Video Interview with Elizabeth McShane about writing to heal from sexual abuse—and to find joy (Also at Talking Writing: What Writing About Trauma Can Do, an excerpt from Chapter One of Writing Ourselves Whole)

• Writing As Erotic Practice: Podcast with Chris Rose of Pleasure Mechanics! We chatted about how writing can be a tool to unlock more erotic freedom and possibility, and how reading erotica help us discover what is possible for our own sex lives…

•  Jen Cross on healing trauma, dissociation, & the erotic: My conversation with Dawn Serra for the Sex Gets Real podcast

•  Jennifer Cross Interview: Writing Ourselves Whole: Conversation with Dr. Carol Queen  for the Good Vibrations blog

•  Writing Ourselves Whole: Transformation, Healing, & Queer Sex: An interview with Sinclair Sexsmith at the Sugarbutch Chronicles!

•   Jen Cross: An Interview with the Author of Writing Ourselves Whole. An interview with Laurie and Debbie at the Body Impolitic Blog

• Check out my conversation with Amy Butcher for the Pleasure Lab podcast (a Body Trust project), Season 2, #7, 11/12/17

• I got to chat with Melinda Adams, aka Lilycat, on Lilycat On Stuff on October 8, 2017 (FCC Free Radio!).

•  Jen in conversation with Kori Doty on the Drugs, Sex, and How We Roll! podcast!

• “Grad Student Jen Cross’ Book Helps Sex Abuse Survivors Heal through Writing” – SFSU Liberal and Creative Arts News, Jan 22, 2018

• “#metoo”, Golden Gate Xpress, Feb 21, 2018

• Guest post: Poems can blossom truth within our hearts: http://www.sexloveandallthefeels.com/blog/poems-can-blossom-truth-within-our-hearts-guest-post-by-jen-cross on Sex, Love, and all the Feels, with Colby Marie Z 

• Guest post: What are you willing to leave unfinished: http://laurensapala.com/willing-leave-unfinished/, Lauren Sapala, writer and writing coach

• “The Story of a Common Girl,” Under the Gum Tree, October 2017

• “Coming Home,” Matador Review, Fall 2017

• Writing Ourselves Whole: Using the Power of Your Own Creativity to Recover and Heal from Sexual Trauma (Mango Media, 2017)

• “Safe,” The Elephants, August 16, 2017

• “Night Hands (excerpt),” Fourteen Hills 22.2, Summer 2016. (Story nominated for a Pushcart Prize)

• “Hot Pants,” Me and My Boi, San Francisco: Cleis Press, 2016. (Book nominated for Lambda Award)

•  “curious” and “emergence” (poems), Sinister Wisdom 99, 2016.

• Sex Still Spoken Here: An Erotic Reading Circle Anthology, Carol Queen, Amy Butcher, and Jen Cross, eds. San Francisco, CA: CSC Press, 2014.

• “coagulations,” Wilde Magazine, Issue 4, Summer 2014.

• “Writing Our Survival: Transformative writing for survivors and those who love them,” Survivorship Journal, Volume 19, Issue 2, Summer 2014.

• “unhinged,” nin: a literary journal of erotic poetics, vol. 1, issue 2, February 2014.

• “Ordinary and Resilient,” New Yorker (Letters section), November 11 2013.

• Fierce Hunger: At the intersection of trauma and desire, a collection of writings by Writing Ourselves Whole participants. Produced for Writing Ourselves Whole’s tenth anniversary, March, 2013.

• notorious, a chapbook produced for Body Heat 2013.

• “Queen of Sheba,” Women in Lust, Rachel Kramer Bussel, ed, Cleis Press, 2011.

• “shame #1,” “pink and devastating,” and “home: again,” 2011 Seattle Erotic Art Festival Literary Art Anthology. Seattle Erotic Art Festival, 2011.

• what they didn’t teach us, chapbook produced for Body Heat 2011.

• “Sisters: A Deology,” The Healing Art of Writing 2010, Joan Baranow, Brian Dolan and David Watts, eds, Univ. of California Press, 2011.

• “Trixie,” Gotta Have It: 69 Stories of Sudden Sex, Rachel Kramer Bussel, ed, Cleis Press, 2011.

• “Sexual truth-telling for pleasure and liberation!” Guest blog post on Oh Get A Grip, June 19, 2010.

• edited the May 2010 issue of the Survivorship Journal

• pink and devastating, a chapbook produced for Body Heat 2010.

• “Piggy,” Fishnet: a journal of erotica, 2-24-2010

• “Femme the sex of me,” Visible: A Femmethology (vol. 1), Homofactus Press, 2009.

• “Waiting,” Frenzy, Alison Tyler, ed. Cleis Press, 2008.

• “Business,” Ignavia, vol. 2.2. (was www.ignaviapress.com)

• “Communities of scars” (review of Live Through This, Essence and Artifice, and Scars Tell Stories). make/shift: feminisms in motion, issue 4, Fall/Winter 2008.

• “Queen of Sheba,” Tasting Her: Oral Sex Stories, Rachel Kramer Bussel, ed. Cleis Press, 2008.

• unconsummated, chapbook produced for Body Heat 2008 (self-compiled and self-published)

• “Review of Female to Femme,” make/shift: feminisms in motion, issue 3, Spring/Summer 2008.

• “Interview with Jen Cross on gender roles, butch/femme, sexual abuse and writing” Rachel Kramer Bussel’s Best Sex Writing 2008 Blog, 1/9/2008

• “Why Erotic Writing?” Open Exchange, Oct/Nov/Dec 2007

• “Surface Tensions,” Best Sex Writing 2008, Rachel Kramer Bussel, ed. Cleis Press.

• “The Anniversary Gift,” More Five Minute Erotica, Carol Queen, ed. Running Press, 2007.

• “Piggy,” Eros Zine, 10-2-07, http://eros-zine.com/articles/2007-10-02/piggy100207/ (No longer available here!)

• “Bedrock” (monthly column) in Chill Mag (was at chillmag.com/)

• “The Temp,” Fantasy: Untrue stories of lesbian passion, Karin Kallmaker and Radclyffe (eds), Bella After Dark, 2007.

• “Transformations,” Got a minute? Sixty-second erotica, Cleis Press.

• “This flesh has changed meaning, Best Women’s Erotica 2007, Cleis Press, 2006.

• “Surface Tensions,” Nobody Passes: Rejecting the rules of gender and conformity, Seal Press, 2006.

• “This is not safe sex,” Clean Sheets, Dec 2006.

• “Wages of Pride,” Naughty Spanking Stories from A to Z 2, Pretty Things Press, 2006.

• “Feast,” Blood Sisters: Lesbian Vampire Tales, Alyson Press, 2006.

• “The G-String,” Glamour Girls: femme-on-femme erotica, Haworth Press, 2006.

• “Landfill” (poem) Lake, ed. Chris DeLorenzo, Laguna Writers, 2006.

• “The Organic Orgasm,” First Timers: True stories of lesbian awakening, Alyson Press, 2006.
  

(The following were published under the name Jen Collins:)

• “Metaphors, the Erotic & Survival or How I Learned to Use a Tool of Repressive Normalization as an Instrument of Eroto-sexual Revolution” The Erotic: Approaches to a cultural contextualization. K. De Temmerman, ed. The Inter-Disciplinary Press, 2005. ISBN: 1-904710-04-2

• “An Old-School Femme,” Back to Basics: a butch-femme anthology, Bella After Dark, 2004.

• “Office Hours,” Best Fetish Erotica, Cleis Press, 2002.

• “Agnostic Dyke Seeks Goddess,” Bare Your Soul: The Thinking Girl’s Guide to Enlightenment, Seal Press, 2002.

• “Bedrock,” Tough Girls: Down & dirty dyke erotica, Black Books, 2002.

• “Go,” Best Bisexual Women’s Erotica, Cleis Press, 2001.

• “Something to believe in,” Young Wives’ Tales: New Adventures In Love and Partnership, Seal Press, 2001.

• “Home is where the heart’s safe,” Maine Times, vol. 33 no. 34 (Jan 4 – Jan 10, 2001).

• “Bedrock,” Set In Stone: Butch-on-butch erotica, Alyson Press, 2000.

• “Open Call for Participation,” BiWomen: Vol. 18, No. 3 (Jun/Jul 2000). pp. 1,8.

• “An Advocate’s Role,” Article for Family Crisis Services newsletter, 1999.

• “About Same-Sex Battering,” Family Crisis Services volunteer newsletter, 1998.

• “Why Women Stay and Why They Leave,” Family Crisis Services informational handout, 1998.

• “Isolated Memories,” BiWomen (Newsletter for the Boston Bisexual Women’s Network): 1995.

• “Defining Lesbian Space,” Spare Rib: Vol. 5, No. 1 (Winter, 1995).

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