Rachel Kramer Bussel (born 1975) is an American author, columnist, and editor, specializing in erotica.

[3] In addition, she is a rotating interviewer for the Gothamist and a columnist for SexIs Magazine.

[citation needed] She has also co-edited a number of collections with other editors and writers, including Alison Tyler, Stacy Bias, Wendy Caster, Julie May, and Christopher Pierce.

[citation needed] From 2005 to 2010, she was the curator for a monthly erotic reading series, In the Flesh, in New York City.

[9] She received the National Leather Association International's Samois Anthology Award for 2012 for Surrender: Erotic Tales of Female Pleasure and Submission, for 2016 for Dirty Dates: Erotic Fantasies For Couples, and for 2019 for The Big Book Of Submission Volume 2.