Cecilia Tan is the 2014 recipient of the Career Achievement Award and the Pioneer Award from RT Magazine, and has been writing professionally since she was Daron's age in the 1980s. She sold her first fiction in the early '90s, and her short stories have appeared in Nerve, Ms. Magazine, Strange Horizons, and Best American Erotica. She is the author of many books, including some award-winning romances (like Slow Surrender), some with gay themes (like The Prince's Boy), as well as the erotic short story collections Black Feathers, White Flames, and Telepaths Don't Need Safewords. In 2010 she was inducted into the Saints and Sinners LGBT Writers Hall of Fame. Find out more at https: //ceciliatan.com.
