For nearly two decades, Ian Philips (Virginia: copy, line, and content editing, proofreading, critique and guidance, cover and promotional copy) was the managing editor for the Damron Company’s best-selling LGBTIQ travel guide series. In the mid-90s, he began to write. His fiction and poetry have appeared widely in print and online—from modern words to The Lambda Book Report, from asspants to suspect thoughts: a journal of subversive writing, from The Mammoth Book of Best New Erotica 2 to The Best of the Best Meat Erotica. Between 1999 and 2005, he was a regular contributor to the Best Gay Erotica series. In 2001, he co-founded AttaGirl Press with Gina Gatta and published his first collection, See Dick Deconstruct: Literotica for the Satirically Bent. It was a finalist for an Erotic Authors Association Award, a Spectrum Award, an Erotic Award 2002, and the winner of the Lambda Literary Award in the category of Erotica. The fall of 2003, he published his second collection, Satyriasis: Literotica 2. Today, he has semi-retired from erotica to edit anthologies with his husband, the author and publisher extraordinaire Greg Wharton,  and to work on his own For Big Sinners series of illustrated humor books. He is currently Editor-in-Chief of Suspect Thoughts Press (where he has edited over forty titles) and Virginia of Leonard & Virginia Editorial and sits on the Advisory Board of the Saints & Sinners literary festival in New Orleans. He and Greg tend their garden in the fruithills of Oakland.