Laura Antoniou
Laura Antoniou is the author of the well-known Marketplace series of erotic novels, and is featured in Writing Below the Belt: Conversations with Erotic Authors by Michael Rowe and The Burning Pen: Sex Writers on Sex Writing, by M. Christian. Laura was also a columnist for Girlfriends magazine from 1995-1997, the submissions editor for Badboy and Bi-Curious magazines from 1995-96, a regular contributor to The SandMUtopia Guardian from 1993-2000 and a columnist for Alt.com in 2008. Many examples of her short fiction, articles, essays and rants can be found in the collection titled The Catalyst and Other Tales, and she has appeared in too many anthologies to remember. She edited the three groundbreaking Leatherwomen anthologies and many other collections of fiction and non-fiction, and her work has been translated into Spanish, German, Hebrew, Japanese and Korean.
As a presenter, panelist, contest judge, emcee and keynote speaker, Laura has appeared at dozens of conferences over more than twenty years, both entertaining and delivering an occasional verbal indictment. Some of these include: Living in Leather, International Ms. Leather, Southeast Leatherfest, the Leather Leadership Conference, and Black BEAT. She has appeared at many SM/leather groups in the US, Canada and England, and at colleges and universities, including NYU, Columbia and the University of Washington. Having coined the phrase at South Plains Leatherfest in 2005, Laura is a proud member of the ‘Middle-Aged Guard.’
Laura lives in Queens, NY with her wife Karen, and happily serves as boy to Kim Attica. Friends have called her all sorts of names. Current favorites being "Renaissance Perv" by Fetish Diva Midori, "Good Boy!" by Kim and of course, "best thing that ever happened to me" by Karen.
