Cecilia Tan is the most recent recipient of the Pantheon of Leather President’s Award and has previously been given the Lifetime Achievement Award by NLA: International. She has been a leather community activist since 1991 and has presented for dozens of organizations and conferences including Black Rose, TES, NELA, Conversio Virium, the Society for Human Sexuality, the Learning Connection, Good Vibrations, Brown University, the Harvard-Radcliffe Science Fiction Society, and many more.

Known primarily for her fiction and publishing exploits, she is the author of several books, including The Velderet, Telepaths Don’t Need Safewords, Black Feathers, and White Flames, and editor of many more, including Fetish Fantastic, Color of Pain, Sex In The System, and Women of the Bite. She is also the founder and Editorial Director of Circlet Press. Recently she has written several erotic romances for Ravenous Romance, including Mind Games, The Hot Streak, and Magic University.