Marilyn Jaye Lewis has been openly in the LGBTQ+ and BDSM communities throughout her 35+ year writing career. She's been writing and editing literary erotic fiction since the mid-1980s, and has had a continuous online presence since 1998, when her first erotic multi-media project as head-writer on the DADAhouse adult CD Rom game, won an AVN Award, and was showcased on HBO.Lewis is the author of 6 published novels and 60+ published short stories, as well as many erotic essays, flash-memoirs, and novellas.Over the decades, Lewis has won numerous awards, both in the US and Europe, for her fiction writing, screenwriting, and multi-media production, including inclusion in Playboy's first Online Hall of Fame for her trailblazing literary erotic fiction website, Other-Rooms.com.Lewis is the founder of the Erotic Authors Association, the first American organization to honor excellence in the writing and publishing of literary erotica, and was its Executive Director until 2006.Her erotic novellas and short stories have been translated into French, Spanish, German, Japanese and Italian. While writing erotica remains her first love, she is also co-producer of Abstract Absurdity Productions, a micro-short film production company based in West Hollywood.

As a playwright, two of her musical theatrical projects are currently in pre-production in New York City and Toronto.