MEET YOUR TEAM
Knotty in New York would be nothing without the amazing people in the reader, author, kink, and sex-positive communities. This event is dedicated to you. May you bask in all your smutty, savory glory.
The team at KiNY hope to do you justice in 2027 and many more times to come.
WHO ARE WE?
BRIGITTE BLAKE is a life-long New York City resident with nearly 20 years of experience in the kink, sex-positive, and immersive event scenes.
After managing hundreds of local events and attending multiple romance conventions in recent years, she’s excited to bring this unique kind of experience to her own backyard.
BECCA FOGG is an independent author with eleven published titles over the last five years. An attorney by day, the Boston-based transplant is best known for her scandalous plot twists and pant-worthy spice.
When she isn’t giggling maniacally and tapping reader-traumatizing ideas into her phone, she enjoys escape rooms, reality competition shows, and immersive theater.
B&B have been inseparable since 2017, when they happened across each other in a Facebook group and never looked back.
Soulmates > fated mates. It’s on the internet, so you know it’s true. Don’t like it? Can you fight? Exactly. That’s what we thought.
Yes, the picture is a little blurry. BF loves it, so here we are.
MIA MICHELE has been publishing fiction, in particular mafia romance, for nearly a decade and has fifteen individual titles. Her nonfiction work has also been featured worldwide in magazines and professional journals.
As a seasoned educator, Mia has a catalog of over a dozen writing, publishing, and BSDM-education workshops. She also makes up one-half of the author 'Peter Mia', which publishes self-help for couples in the BDSM lifestyle.
Mia is handling education/panel management and assisting with general operations.
Ask about the racoon smut she and BF are writing. We dare you.
ASHLEY MICHELE writes queer Southern Gothic stories about mixed, plus-size femmes. Her sweet little babies have blood between their teeth and an insatiable desire for their lovers’ devotion to be… questionable at best.
A librarian by day and unapologetic smut peddler by night, Ashley is an experienced event runner who embraces roles that bridge the gap between spicy authors, readers, and real-world kink and BDSM spaces. She is the founder of AMG Publishing, which offers developmental editing, systems management, and sensitivity reading grounded in own-voice and intersectional lived experience.
Ashley is handling social media/marketing.
OK, BUT WHO MADE *GESTURES AROUND*?
All art was created in-house by KiNY. A handful of stock images/video are from Canva or Adobe and are properly licensed for commercial use. Venue photos were supplied by the venue and are displayed with permission.
All work is human-made. No generative AI was used to create any art, designs, text, or other content for this site or event.
QUESTIONS? CONCERNS?
Drop us a message at info@knottyinnewyork.com.