Did You Know? Jamie Joy's primary specialty lies in writing short fiction and short shorts, which touch on the erotic as well as the tragic, and often the horrific. She also loves to create psychological work, creating characters on the brink of emotional breakthrough. She considers her writing important because it includes sex as a part of the true human experience-- whether or not her scenes are "erotic" to all readers is irrelevant to her. Jamie Joy is available to make personal appearances, to teach adult sexuality interactive workshops, for erotica writing courses, book signings, readings and more. She is a dynamic and captivating performer, with silky-smooth vocal delivery when performing her writing as spoken word.

Email Jamie Joy if you are interested in hiring her as an editor, a writer, a performer, an instructor or to make other personal appearances. Jamie Joy also does Web site design and Webmaster upkeep for sites, also at a discounted rate for writers. Please email for details.

• Interview of Gatto by Alexander Renault
• Interview of Gatto at suspect thoughts
• Interview of Gatto at Pursed Lips
• Interview of Gatto at Sliptongue

Jamie Joy Gatto co-originated Mind Caviar, "dedicated to sensual pleasures of all types for intelligent and discriminating readers." She continues to edit, create, code and write for this popular adult webzine about "Food, Sex, Literature and Art."

Her love of the tragic combined with the sensual  inspired Jamie Joy to create Ophelia's Muse, a tiny annual webzine of erotic tragedies, beautifully designed with classical quotes and Pre-Raphaelite art.

Once Jamie Joy's simple home page, her cry to meet other bisexuals has turned to true activism. She now hosts this "Free Bi-Friendly Resource Center" on-line as well as a 500+ member international bisexual newsgroup.

Jamie Joy is a staff as well as a featured "celebrity" author at Custom Erotica Source where you may commission her to turn your fantasies into professional erotic prose as a gift for yourself or for a loved one. The stories are then artfully bound into a lovely keepsake chapbook.

She also writes and records custom kinky audio regarding BDSM and other taboo fetishes for Yes Mistress Audio. Please visit to learn more about how she can turn your fetishes into a memorable audio CD.

Not sure these resources have what you need? Jamie Joy can custom write work for you. She has written custom erotica stories for many personal clients as well as for several companies. She's written everything from adult ad copy to dialogue for Penthouse DVDs to carefully crafted erotic love letters. Email Jamie Joy with your ideas!

Her essays and columns have been collected and published at Sexuality.org. The following columns appear quarterly or monthly both in hard copy and on-line:

Champagne Rouge appears quarterly in the webzine Mind Caviar addressing reader's questions with well-researched and compassionate sex advice.

Power Principles is a look at the sexual, spiritual and practical side of BDSM. Power Principles appears regularly in the nationally distributed  BDSM magazine from T.E.S. (The Eulenspeigel Society) called Prometheus.

Twisted Urges: Where Society and the Sexual Meet is a sociological exploration of how American society views and treats all things sexual. It appears quarterly in the webzine suspect thoughts: a journal of subversive writing.

Ask Jamie Joy is a column for bisexuals and couples-- a sexual question and answer forum which runs at Three Pillows, a paysite designed especially for bisexual or bi-curious men and women.

National Writers Union
Member 1998, 1999, 2000, 2001

New Orleans Writer's Workshop
Fall 1996, Spring 1997, Fall 1997

People Exchanging Power
Nancy Ava Miller's Professional BDSM Organization, Professional Phone Counselor and Dominant, 1999

Eroticon 2002

M. Christian Ian Philips Jamie Joy Gatto Greg Wharton Sage Vivant Lady Mia Jennings  Stacy Reed Isabelle Carruthers BD/SM Peformance Art Transgender MC & Performance Art Costume Contest Burlesque by Bonnie Dunn of NYC Sensual Music & Dance Performances and more...

The Saints & Sinners Literary Festival 2003

"Saints and Sinners" is a literary festival for the GLBT community that took place May 9-11, 2003 in New Orleans. The literary weekend included workshops, panel discussions, and a series of readings that appealed to both readers and writers alike. There were special events and book signings throughout the weekend. Featured writers were Dorothy Alison, Poppy Z. Brite and many others.

Jamie Joy performed her spoken word at Gennifer Flower's Keltso Club,  along with several authors such as Ian Philips, Greg Wharton and M. Christian. Jamie Joy also participated on a panel titled "Sometimes a Cigar is Just a Cigar" where erotica authors/editors discussed the difference between erotica & pornography.

The BiNet Anual Conference 2001, Houston Texas
Jamie Joy taught "Getting in Touch with Your Erotic Self" workshops and offered her "Guided Erotic Meditation" to conventioneers.

Bi Camp 2000, Texas
Jamie Joy taught her "Getting in Touch With Your Erotic Self" workshop at Rainbow Ranch.

Exoticon Sci-Fi Convention, New Orleans
Jamie Joy taught "S/M for Beginners" workshop two years in a row at this popular sci-fi convention.