Audacia Ray is a sex-worker rights advocate, alternative model, safer sex educator, professional Internet porn watcher, curator, porn director, and executive editor of $pread, a magazine by and for sex workers. Ray’s writing has appeared in Everything You Know About Sex is Wrong, First-Timers: True Stories of Lesbian Awakening, and Sexiest Soles: Erotic Stories About Feet and Shoes. She teaches workshops and speaks about sexuality at universities and does safer sex workshops all over New York City. She is completing her MA in American Studies at Columbia University and lives in Brooklyn.