Alessia Brio is the sultry, erotica-writing alter ego of an Appalachian soccer mom. She is "sensual, succulent, and satisfying" even when her creator feels like a hairy warthog. Her debut book, a single-author anthology of erotica & poetry entitled fine flickering hungers, won the 2007 EPPIE Award for Best Erotica. She is primarily published electronically, and her work is available on FictionWise.
Alessia strives to bring a "print-level of respectability" to eBooks, to promote diversity, and to maintain an altruistic focus in all her efforts. To that end, she is the driving force behind the Coming Together anthologies, multi-author collections of erotica & poetry that benefit charity.
Ms. Brio lives in the mountains near Pittsburgh and is barefoot as much as life allows. She has an obsessive aversion to "to be" verbs in her prose and gets aroused by creative enjambment in her poetry. Her fetishes include SuDoku, rare steak, stainless steel, and office supplies.
Each friend represents a world in us, a world possibly not born until they arrive, and it is only by this meeting that a new world is born. • Anaïs Nin
