Who We Are
Mara Cordova
Mara Cordova grew up in historic Park Slope, Brooklyn - spending her formative years in parochial school, wearing the kind of girl's school uniform that still drives men wild. With applied dedication, she trained daily with a Buddhist monk in Astoria, Queens, until (much to her own regret) she had mastered the art of unresolved sexual tension. She volunteered, washed behind her ears and really was a good girl - until 1995, when her household was connected to the Internet, and she received a random spam e-mail from a certain Dalmatian Coast parolee. Her mistake was responding.
She spent the next four years - right up until her eighteenth birthday - pretending to be nineteen-years-old, drawing naked people, e-communicating for money with incarcerated pen pals and reading The Sentinel slash fan-fiction while her teachers (i.e. the nuns) weren't looking. (Admittedly, on occasion, she made sure the nuns were looking, so that she would have the privilege of suffering whatever exquisite punishment Sister Immaculata might devise.)
Matriculating to the NYC Fashion Institute of Technology, Mara majored in fashion illustration and minored in numerous subsets of BDSM culture - though after the incident with the sawhorse, she no longer practices. In 2000, after a semester and a half of higher learning and lowered orgasmic expectations, Mara burned out on academia and left New York to pursue other things - mostly men. Throughout this period, she was pursued - some would say stalked - by her former e-pimp, who eventually convinced her to illustrate Last Tengu In Paris. Despite her misgivings at some of the perversions of the writer - not to mention his insistence that she reclaim her role as the penal system's top e-tease, Mara has happily gone back to what she loves doing most - namely, drawing naked people (and other species) in the midst of carnal acts.
Mara lives in San Antonio, Texas, with her beloved mate Aaron and many cats. Our fearless leader periodically monitors their sex lives via webcam to make sure Aaron, Mara, the cats and two hundred thousand paying criminal offenders remain satisfied. Her parochial school uniform is still much in demand.