Sex is a Funny Word

About the Author

Raised by a children's librarian and a sex therapist, CORY SILVERBERG split the difference and grew up to be a sexuality educator and writer. With an academic background in education and counseling psychology, he has developed and facilitated workshops for hundreds of agencies across North America, working on a range of topics including sexuality and disability, sexual pleasure, and sexual communication. He is the coauthor of The Ultimate Guide to Sex and Disability, and since 2005 he has worked as the Sexuality Guide for About.com. In 2012, Silverberg developed a book project-What Makes a Baby?-that became the best-funded children's book on Kickstarter. He subsequently signed a three-book deal with Seven Stories Press to produce a series of inclusive children's books about gender and sexuality. Silverberg lives in New York City. FIONA SMYTHis a Toronto-based painter, illustrator, and cartoonist. Her first graphic novel,The Never Weres, was published by Annick Press in 2011. Fiona's comicCheezwas published inExclaim!magazine for almost ten years, and her comicFazoozwas inVicefor eight years. Fiona teaches illustration and comics at OCAD U in Toronto.