Writer Prefers Erotica to Tradition

When Mary Anne Mohanraj's parents emigrated to the U.S. from Sri Lanka in the 1970s, they believed their daughter would get a stellar education (preferably in science or medicine), and then settle down to a proper arranged marriage with a Tamil Sri Lankan and procreate. Unfortunately for them, the Internet changed all that.
During the early days of the net, browsing news groups one night, the convent-educatied Mohanraj saw the alt.sex.stories newsgroup and decided to peek in. "The first erotic story she read was so badly written she decided she could do better," reports SFgate.com. She eventually became known as "the queen of alt.sex.stories" for her hot tales, which she wrote in between getting two degrees. Then she was tapped to edit to collections of erotica, Wet and Aqua Erotica (now in it's fifth printing).
Although her parents stopped speaking to her when they found out what she was writing online, they forgave her, but have given up all hope of an arranged marriage. This is good news, because Mohanraj is in a long-term open relationship.
Mohanraj's first collection of stories Bodies in Motion follows to families in Sri Lanka and the U.S. and is not erotic, but a multi-generational saga.
Read the fascinating interview/profile here.