I am a writer, workshop facilitator and performer. My writing appears in more than thirty anthologies and periodicals, including Make/Shift, Nobody Passes, Visible: A Femmethology (Vol. 1), Best Sex Writing 2008, Best Women's Erotica 2007, and many more. I toured with the Body Heat Femme Porn Tour, for which she’s produced two chapbooks: unconsummated and pink and devastating. I've featured at such Bay Area literary events as Femina Potens’ Sizzle, Writers With Drinks, the National Queer Arts Festival, Perverts Put Out, the Queer Open Mic, and LitQuake’s LitCrawl. I have facilitated sexuality and survivors writing workshops since 2002, and lead workshops at Writing Ourselves Whole in San Francisco and at colleges and organizations across the country. My writing deals primarily with queer sexuality and trauma.

* “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
* pink and devastating, a chapbook produced for Body Heat 2010 (self-compiled and self-published)
* “Piggy,” Fishnet: a journal of erotica, 2-24-2010
* “Femme the sex of me,” Visible: A Femmethology (vol. 1), Homofactus Press.
* “Waiting,” Frenzy, Alison Tyler, ed. Cleis Press.
* “Business,” Ignavia, vol. 2.2 (www.ignaviapress.com)
* “Queen of Sheba,” Tasting Her, 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,” Five Minute Erotica, Carol Queen, Ed.
* “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 (http://chillmag.com/, now defunct — archives available soon.
* “The Temp,” Fantasy: Untrue stories of lesbian passion, Bella After Dark.
* “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).

I offer generative writing workshops (general topic and special topic) in the SF Bay Area and around the country