Tsaurah Litzky is a multi-faceted writer who writes poetry, fiction, erotic fiction, creative nonfiction, plays and art criticism.

Her erotic novella, The Motion Of The Ocean was published by Simon & Schuster in 2004 as part of Three the Hard Way, a series of erotic novellas edited by Susie Bright.

Baby On The Water-New and Selected Poems (1990-2002), was published by Long Shot Press in 2003. She has also published eight poetry chapbooks including Peach Garden (Snapdragon Press 2005), Good Bye Beautiful Mother (Low Tech Press 2001). Snapdragon Press published another chapbook of Tsaurah’s, Blake Haunts Me in 2005 and most recently (2007) they published Crazy Lust, her tenth chapbook.

Tsaurah’s writing has appeared in over ninety publications including Best American Erotica (8 times), Penthouse, Paramour, The Blacklisted Journalist, Clean Sheets, Politically Inspired, Pink Pages, Outlaw Bible Of American Poetry, Rattapallax, Long Shot, Booglit, Allspice, Downtown Poets, Café Review, Williamsburg Observer, Artspeak, Rant Naughty Spanking Stories, Tales from the Infirmary, Crimes Of The Beats, Clara Venus, Down Is Down But So Is Up and Mammoth Book of Best New Erotica 6.

A long time presence on the New York poetry and performance scenes, Tsaurah has performed her work in many venues including the Bowery Poetry Club, Barbes, National Arts Club, Theater for the New City, St. Marks Church, Pink Pony, Nuyurican Poets Café, Gathering of the Tribes, Knitting Factory, Stevens Institute, and the Howl Festival. In 2004 she was a featured reader at the thirty-fifth Burning Tongues poetry festival in Ruigoord Netherlands.

She was a columnist for the former arts weekly, Downtown, where she wrote a weekly Eros and Existence column.

She is a member of the faculty of the Creative Writing department at the New School. where she teaches an ongoing class, Silk Sheets-Writing Erotica.

Tsaurah lives in an apartment on the Brooklyn Waterfront where she can see the Statue of Liberty out her kitchen window. She continues to believe that it is a blessing to be a poet and that this is the promised land.