stella fosse

I spent a quarter century writing submissions to the FDA for new medical products. In my late 50s, I read a well-meaning article in the New York Times Book Review by an older erotic writer, urging her sisters to create characters in their 20s, if they wanted to be published. Shades of the Bronte Sisters, writing as the Bell Brothers! The thought of older women writers closeting ourselves was so repugnant that I decided to start writing erotica.

Meanwhile, my second marriage had ended and my sex life was ramping up. Around that time, my friend Lynx Canon started a monthly event called Dirty Old Women, where women over 50 read their erotica to welcoming crowds at a local bookstore. All at once I had the method, motive, and opportunity to launch a different kind of writing career.

Stella Fosse is an erotica writer, the author of Aphrodite’s Pen: The Power of Writing Erotica after Midlife, and a late bloomer whose erotic life blossomed in her late 50s. In 2016, Fosse co-founded a group for women 50+ called Elderotica Writers, with monthly meetings to share story writing and friendship. Fosse’s story “Terraforming,” about the friendship between a bookish woman in her 60s and a well-endowed cowboy, appeared in the 2017 anthology, Dirty Old Women, and she has read at the quarterly Dirty Old Women literary event in Oakland, California. Stella’s collaborative project, The Palace of Wisdom, is based on an imaginary erotic spa in Big Sur for women over 50 and includes floor-plans, activities and rules, which she shares in workshops and online. Fosse advocates writing erotica as a great way for older women to push back on ageism and sexism. She is retired from a career in biotechnology and lives with her partner in North Carolina.

Why You and I Should Both Write Erotica by Stella Fosse (@stellafosse) #erotica

Author Profile: Stella Fosse

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