Bio
An award-winning fiction writer and screenwriter who self-published her first book of short stories at the age of nine, Cynthia W. Gentry is author of The Bedside Orgasm Book: 365 Days of Sexual Ecstasy (Fair Winds Press), reissued in paperback as Mind-Blowing Orgasms Every Day: 365 Wild and Wicked Ways to Revitalize Your Sex Life (Quiver). She is the co-author, with her husband Nima Badiey, of What Men Really Want in Bed: The Surprising Facts Men Wish Women Knew About Sex. She is also the co-author of Red Hot Tantra: Erotic Secrets of Red Tantra for Intimate, Soul-to-Soul Sex and Ecstatic, Enlightened Orgasms (Fair Winds Press), for which she wrote the erotica.
Gentry’s work has appeared in Area i, The Montserrat Review and Reed Magazine, as well as magazines such as budget savvy. She has also covered film festivals for indiWIRE.com and has written for the Literary Arts section of SFStation.com. Her film reviews for the Web site Dailygossip.com garnered her a loyal and avid following.
Gentry has a master’s degree in journalism from the University of California at Berkeley, where she was the recipient of the Edna Kinard Prize, the Alfred & Ruth Thompson Perassolo Scholarship and a Regent’s Fellowship. She graduated with departmental honors from Stanford University with a Bachelor of Arts degree in English. An M.A. candidate in San Francisco State University’s graduate creative writing program, Gentry is currently at work on a novel and several screenplays.