Rachel Kramer Bussel

Rachel Kramer Bussel is an American author, columnist, and editor, specializing in erotica. She previously studied at the New York University School of Law.

Career Bussel has been a Senior Editor at Penthouse Variations, a Contributing Editor to Penthouse, and a blogger for The Huffington Post. In addition, she is a rotating interviewer for the Gothamist and a columnist for SexIs Magazine. She has written for the Village Voice.

From 2005 to 2010, she was the curator for a monthly erotic reading series, In the Flesh, in New York City.

Personal life Bussel is bisexual, saying in 2006, "I think ideally I'd like to have a male lover and a female lover, either a triad situation or one on one."

Bussel has been a resident of Teaneck, New Jersey.

Awards Bussel received a 2009 Independent Publisher Book Award for the Tasting Him and Tasting Her anthologies. She received the National Leather Association International's Samois Anthology Award for 2012 for Surrender: Erotic Tales of Female Pleasure and Submission, for 2016 for Dirty Dates: Erotic Fantasies For Couples, and for 2019 for The Big Book Of Submission Volume 2.