About Laura Antoniou

Laura Antoniou is the author of the well known Marketplace series of erotic novels, She has also edited the groundbreaking “Leatherwomen” anthologies, and several other collections of fiction and non-fiction. Her work has been translated into Spanish, German, Hebrew, Japanese and Korean. Many examples of her short fiction, articles, essays and rants can be found in the collection titled The Catalyst and Other Tales.

She is personally featured in Writing Below the Belt: Conversations with Erotic Authors by Michael Rowe and The Burning Pen: Sex Writers on Sex Writing, by M.Christian. Laura was also acolumnist for Girlfriends magazine from 1995-1997, the submissions editor for Badboy and Bi-Curious magazines from 1995-96, and a regular contributor to The SandMUtopia Guardian from1993-2000.

The Marketplace series describes "an elite and secretive world organization,dedicated to the auctioning and overseeing of the world's finest lifestyle slaves... a world so vivid in sequel after sequel, it takes on a reality of its own, one that's visually hard to let go of once the reader has put down the book." (Libido Magazine).  Laura plans several more novels in the series and is currently working The Inheritor.

As a presenter, panelist, and keynote speaker, Laura has appeared at dozens of conferences over more than twenty years, both entertaining and delivering an occasional verbal indictment. She has also appeared at colleges and universities, including NYU, Columbia an d the University of Washington.

"As a producer of events focusing on Master/slave and Dominant/submissive relationships, Laura Antoniou is one of the first people I think of as a presenter. Ms. Antoniou understands the dynamics of such relationships, and always offers a well-prepared and thought-provoking presentation. As slave marsha also can testify, Ms. Antoniou speaks from the heart about the reality of Master/slave relationships."
 -- Master Jim and slave marsha, International Master and slave 2001

"Laura Antoniou is a regularly featured guest at Playhouse. Her readings, presentations, and great sense of humor are welcomed by one and all, and add a note of fun to any event!" -- Playhouse Studios

Laura lives in Queens with her wife Karen, and happily serves as boy to Kim Attica. Friends have called her all sorts of names.  Current favorites being "Renaissance Perv" by Fetish Diva Midori,  "Good Boy!" by Kim and of course, "best thing that ever happened to me" by Karen.