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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 McShaneabout 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 Serrafor the Sex Gets Real podcast
Jennifer Cross Interview: Writing Ourselves Whole: Conversation with Dr. Carol Queen for the Good Vibrationsblog
Writing Ourselves Whole: Transformation, Healing, & Queer Sex:An interview with Sinclair Sexsmithat the Sugarbutch Chronicles!
Jen Cross: An Interview with the Author of Writing Ourselves Whole. An interview with Laurie and Debbieat 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 tochat withMelinda 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 SurvivorshipJournal
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).