Hanne Blank (25 February, 1969) Born in Northampton, Massachusetts, Hanne Blank is a historian, writer, editor and public speaker. She has also edited and written erotica but is retired from that genre.See her blog entry about her retirement for more information.

She grew up in the greater Cleveland, Ohio area, became a classically-trained musician and then a formally educated historian.See her biography page from her official web site and The Naughty Professor article from the City Paper, February 12, 2003. As an independent scholar, her most recent post was as the 2004-2005 Scholar of the Institute For Teaching and Research on Women at Towson University, Maryland.See Library of Congress Contributor biographical information for Virgin: The Untouched History.

Ms. Blank is a former co-editor of Scarletletters.com See her artist in residence page and current right side-bar text.(online "publisher of sex-positive, original, visionary creative and artistic work of all kinds") and Scarleteen.comQuestion 11 of Interview with Hanne Blank, Advocates for Youth, June 26, 2001 refers to this work. ("delivering ... contemporary teen sex ed") with Heather Corinna.See her biography page from her official web site. She is a former associate editor of Sojourner: The Women's Forum, and has also written sex columns for the Boston Phoenix and Good Vibes Magazine.

As an instructor (prior to becoming a full-time writer/editor), she taught at the university level at Brandeis University, Tufts University and Whitworth College. As a musician, she was a Fellow of the Boston University Tanglewood Institute and was the 1991 recipient of the George Whitefield Chadwick medal for work as a proponent of contemporary art music.

Her most recent book, Virgin: The Untouched History, was published by Bloomsbury USA in March, 2007.