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
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
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
