Cantara Christopher is a literary essayist and publisher, born 7 January 1955 in Minneapolis, Minnesota to Filipino parents. Her small press Cantarabooks is home to authors Michael Matheny, Stephen Gyllenhaal and others, while her PDF-exclusive literary journal Cantaraville publishes short fiction, nonfiction, scripts and poetry from all over the world.

She has served as amaneunsis to classic film director Rouben Mamoulian and has worked on original productions of playwrights Sam Shepard, Michael McClure, Joseph Chaikin and groundbreaking gay playwright Robert Chesley. Her work as an actress in the 70s during the waning days of the "Golden Age of Porn" includes the feature movies of Gerard Damiano and several shorts in the Swedish Erotica series. She claims as her publishing mentor Barney Rosset, legendary founder of the notorious erotic imprint Blue Moon Books as well as groundbreaking publisher of Grove Press and the politically-charged quarterly Evergreen Review.

Cantarabooks is a member of the Council for Literary Magazines and Presses (CLMP) and the New York Center for Independent Publishing (NYCIP). Additionally, with a 20-year background working freelance for major New York houses (Macmillan, Simon & Schuster, Avon, Doubleday, Ballantine/Fawcett), Cantara is a knowledgable and regular panelist at the Round Table Writers' Conference held every spring in New York City. Find her bio at Wikipedia, her listing at the University of Pennsylvania's Celebration of Women Writers, her connections at LinkedIn, her network at Facebook, and her movie stats at IMDb. With her partner, editor-author Michael Matheny, she makes the rounds of New York, Los Angeles, San Francisco, Boulder and Paris.