Climbing Her Tower

Biographie de Elizabeth Black

Elizabeth Black writes erotica, erotic romance, speculative fiction, fantasy, and horror. She also enjoys writing retellings of classic fairy tales. Born and bred in Baltimore, she grew up under the influence of Edgar Allan Poe. Her erotic fiction has been published by Xcite Books (U. K.), Circlet Press, Cleis Press, Scarlet Magazine (U. K.), and other publishers. Her horror fiction has appeared in "Wicked Tales: The Journal Of The New England Horror Writers Vol.
3", "Zippered Flesh 2: More Tales Of Body Enhancements Gone Bad", "Teeming Terrors", "Stupefying Stories", "Mirages: Tales From Authors Of The Macabre" and other publications. An accomplished essayist, she was the sex columnist for the pop culture e-zine nuts4chic (also U. K.) until it folded in 2008. Her articles about sex, erotica, and relationships have appeared in Good Vibrations Magazine, Alternet, CarnalNation, the Ms.
Magazine Blog, Sexis Magazine, On The Issues, Sexy Mama Magazine, and Circlet blog. She also writes sex toys reviews for several sex toys companies. In addition to writing, she has also worked as a gaffer (lighting), scenic artist, and make-up artist (including prosthetics) for movies, television, stage, and concerts. She worked as a gaffer for "Die Hard With A Vengeance" and "12 Monkeys". She did make-up, including prosthetics, for "Homicide: Life On The Street".
She is especially proud of the gunshot wound to the head she had created with makeup for that particular episode. She also worked as a prosthetic makeup artist specializing in cyanotic blue, bruises, and buckets of blood for a test of Maryland's fire departments at the Baltimore/Washington International Airport plane crash simulation test. Yes, her jobs are fun. ;)She lives in Lovecraft country on the Massachusetts coast with her husband, son, and three cats.
The ocean calls her every day, and she always listens. She has yet to run into Cthulhu.