When Jolie du Pre won a contest in 1998 for one of her young adult
fiction stories, she knew she wanted to be a writer. However, it
wasn't until 2001 when she entered the world of literary erotica
that she found her groove.
Jolie's stories have appeared in a variety of webzines including
the Galleries of the Erotica Readers and Writers Association,
Scarlet Letters, Word Riot, Peacock Blue, Sensual Venus, Litbits,
Scattered Things, and more. In addition, she has been published in
e-book.
Jolie's erotica appears in many print anthologies including Hot
& Bothered 4 - Short Short Fiction on Lesbian Desire edited by
Karen X. Tulchinsky, Down & Dirty Volume 2 edited by Alison
Tyler, Best Bondage Erotica 2 edited by Alison Tyler, The Heart of
Our Community edited by Sachel Peters, Luscious edited by Alison
Tyler, Cream: The Best of ERWA edited by Lisabet Sarai, Got A
Minute? edited by Alison Tyler, Coming Together: For the Cure
edited by Alessia Brio, Best Lesbian Erotica 2007 edited by Tristan
Taormino, and in the upcoming anthologies Best Erotica 2007
published by Arnoldo Mondadori Editore and Purple Panties, edited
by Zane.
Jolie is the editor of Iridescence: Sensuous Shades of Lesbian
Erotica, published by Alyson Books. She is the founder of GLBT
Promo, a promotional group for GLBT erotica and erotic romance. She
is the news blog moderator for the Erotic Authors Association. She
is a blogger at The Blushing Ladies Journal. She is also an article
writer and a ghostwriter.
Jolie du Pre is a bisexual married woman, the mother of two
children, and she lives in Chicago. At the end of 2007 she
accomplished her dream of quitting her day job to write full-time.
