Lauren Sanders is a novelist and journalist who lives in New York City. Her highly acclaimed debut novel, Kamikaze Lust (Akashic, 2000) won a 2001 Lambda Literary Award. Sanders's writing has appeared in publications including the American Book Review, Poets & Writers, and Time Out New York. She is coeditor of the anthology Too Darn Hot: Writing About Sex Since Kinsey, published by Persea Books in 1998. She is a graduate of Columbia University's school of journalism and has an MA in Creative Writing from City College in New York.