Mary Anne Mohanraj

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Mary Anne Mohanraj (born July 26, 1971) is an American writer, editor, and academic. She was born in Sri Lanka but moved to the United States at the age of two and grew up in New Britain, Connecticut. She attended the University of Chicago and graduated with a degree in English Literature in 1993. She also holds an MFA from Mills College and a PhD of English Literature from the University of Utah. She also attended the Clarion West Writing Workshop in 1997. She is currently an assistant professor at Roosevelt University, where she teaches in the MFA program.

She was the editor-in-chief for Clean Sheets, an online magazine of erotica, from 1998 to 2000. In 2000 she helped found Strange Horizons, where she was the editor-in-chief until 2003. In 2004 she founded the Speculative Literature Foundation, which she still directs, and is a founding member and Executive Director of Desilit, an organization designed to support South Asian and diaspora writers.

In addition to her writing, she is also something of a sexuality activist. She founded and moderates the Internet Erotica Writers' Workshop, and was a former moderator for soc.sexuality.general.

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[edit] Bibliography

[edit] Novels

Kathryn in the City: A Choose-Your-Own-Erotic-Adventure (Melcher Media, 2003) (ISBN 1-59240-030-2)
The Classics Professor: A Choose-Your-Own-Erotic-Adventure (Melcher Media, 2003) (ISBN 1-59240-031-0)
The Arrangement, A Novel (HarperCollins, forthcoming, 2007) (ISBN 0-06-078120-3)

[edit] Collections

Torn Shapes of Desire (IAM, 1997) (ISBN 1-885876-03-3)
Silence and the Word (Lethe Press, 2004) (ISBN 1-59021-014-X)
Bodies in Motion: Stories (HarperCollins, 2005) (ISBN 0-06-078118-1)

[edit] Edited Works

Aqua Erotica (Three Rivers Press, 2000) (ISBN 0-609-80656-4)
Wet: More Aqua Erotica (Three Rivers Press, 2002) (ISBN 0-609-80897-4)
The Best of Strange Horizons: Year One (Lethe Press, 2003) (ISBN 1-59021-036-0)