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Biography
Hanne Blank is a writer, editor, public speaker, and historian whose work has appeared to great acclaim in many print and online publications, anthologies and collections, as well as in book form. A classically-trained musician who has also been formally educated as an historian, she has been writing full-time since 2000.
She is the author/editor of the following books:
- Virgin: The Untouched History (March 2007, Bloomsbury USA)
- Unruly Appetites (2003, Seal Press)
- Shameless: Women’s Intimate Erotica (2002,Seal Press)
- Best Transgender Erotica (with Raven Kaldera, 2002, Circlet Press)
- Zaftig: Well Rounded Erotica (2001, Cleis Press)
- Big Big Love: A Sourcebook on Sex for People of Size and Those Who Love Them (2000, Greenery Press)
Periodicals which have featured her work include Penthouse, Southwest Art, Lilith, Bitch: Feminist Response to Pop Culture, the Baltimore CityPaper, the Boston Phoenix, Peko Peko, PRIDE Magazine, Santa Fean Magazine, and numerous others. Her short fiction and essays are frequently anthologized.
Ms. Blank and her work have been featured and reviewed in The Village Voice, OUT Magazine, First for Women Magazine, Libido, MODE, and many other periodicals, and she has been widely interviewed on radio and television in the US, UK, and Canada, including being featured on National Public Radio, BBC 4, and on the acclaimed Canadian program SexTV. As a public speaker and educator, Ms. Blank has appeared on the campuses of many universities and colleges, including Johns Hopkins University, Tufts University, SUNY Binghamton, the University of Washington, and the University of Minnesota as well as at national and regional conferences of various types and centers for adult learning. She has been the Scholar of the Institute at the Institute for Teaching and Research on Women, Towson University, Maryland.
Ms. Blank is former co-editor of Scarletletters.com and Scarleteen.com, former associate editor of Sojourner: The Women’s Forum, and has been a sex columnist for the Boston Phoenix and for Good Vibes Magazine. Prior to becoming a full-time writer, she taught at the university level at institutions including Brandeis University, Tufts University, and Whitworth College. As a musician, she has been a Fellow of the Tanglewood Institute, and was the 1991 recipient of the George Whitfield Chadwick medal.
Although Ms. Blank is a dyed-in-the-wool Midwesterner, she currently lives (through no fault of her own) and works in Baltimore, Maryland, where she shares a purple, hundred-year-old house with her spouse, three cats, and the world’s cutest Japanese Akita.
Photos by Hanne. Site by Jhames