Bio
Cynthia W. Gentry is the author (with Roxanne Colville) of Secret Seductions: 62 Naughty Nights, Lusty Liaisons and Sexy Surprises (Quiver) and 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 wrote What Men Really Want in Bed: The Surprising Facts Men Wish Women Knew About Sex (Quiver) with her husband, Nima Badiey. She is also the co-author, with David Ramsdale, 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.
Cynthia’s erotic short story “Just Friends” was published on RavenousRomance.com and recently included in the Ravenous Romance e-book Threesomes: An Anthology. Gentry is frequently interviewed by magazines like Glamour and Cosmopolitan for articles on sex and relationships and has also appeared on radio shows such as Sex with Emily and Playboy Radio’s Night Calls. Her next book, What Women Really Want in Bed (co-authored with Dana Fredsti) will be published by Quiver in April 2010.
Gentry’s fiction and journalism 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 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.