Lori Bryant-Woolridge is an Emmy award-winning writer. After spending 15 years in the broadcast television industry, she wrote three Essence bestselling novels, Read Between the Lies, Hitts & Mrs., and Weapons of Mass Seduction. She is editor of Cleis Press’s Can't Help the Way That I Feel: Sultry Stories of African American Love, Lust and Fantasy and has a story in the collection. Bryant-Woolridge is uniquely qualified to be Dean of Stiletto U; a lifelong sensualist, she met and became engaged to her longtime husband in six days.