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B.T. Joy

**B.T. Joy** has been writing horror for some years now and has had around two dozen works of fiction included in magazines, journals, anthologies and podcasts worldwide.

His intention is to produce tales set in a realistic environment in which the psychological preoccupations of the protagonist drive the narrative and any supernatural elements are left for the reader to infer; rather than being openly stated by the writer. Also a practicing poet, B.T. Joy’s verse has been nominated for the Pushcart Prize on three occasions and can be found in the pages and internet presences of over fifty markets. He is the holder of a BA from London Metropolitan University and a PGDE from Strathclyde. This year he was awarded an MLitt in Poetry from the University of St. Andrews and he relocated to Heilongjiang, in Northern China, where he writes and reads voraciously and teaches English at high school level. This year his first solo collection of poetry Teaching Neruda will be released through Popcorn Press. White Knuckle Press are also releasing a selection of his prose poetry in a chapbook due out in March.

B.T.'s story, The Angel in the Marble, was read by Simon Meddings on Pseudopod episode 468.
Bruce Holland Rogers

**Bruce Holland Rogers** is an American author of short fiction who also writes under the pseudonym Hanovi Braddock. His stories have won a Pushcart Prize, two Nebula Awards, the Bram Stoker Award, two World Fantasy Awards, the Micro Award, and have been nominated for the Edgar Allan Poe Award and Spain's Premio Ignotus.The 2001 short film *The Other Side*, directed by Mary Stuart Masterson, was based on his novelette, "Lifeboat on a Burning Sea."

He is a member of the Wordos writers' group and is a permanent member of the fiction faculty at the Whidbey Writers Workshop MFA program in creative writing of Northwest Institute of Literary Arts. He has taught fiction writing seminars in Denmark, Greece, Finland, and Portugal. In 2010 he taught at Eötvös Loránd University in Budapest on a Fulbright grant.

## Work on Escape Artists

Escape Pod

* EP022 Don Ysidro, read by Evo Terra
* EP040 Even Vadsø Thaws, read by Stephen Eley

PodCastle

* PCMini020 Okra, Sorghum, Yam, read by An Owomoyela
* PCMini037 Hall of Mirrors, read by Barry Deutsch
Amelia Gorman

**Amelia Gorman**'s story“Bring The Moon To Me” was first printed in 2015 in the anthology **SHE WALKS IN SHADOWS** (later renamed “CTHULHU’S DAUGHTERS”), edited by Silvia Moreno-Garcia and Paula R. Stile

## Work on Escape Artists

Pseudopod

* PP538 Flash on the Borderlands XXXVII: Higher Beings Command: *Bring The Moon To Me*, read by Laura Hobbs
Andrew K Hoe

**Andrew K Hoe** teaches and practices Choy Li Fut Kung Fu and Tai Chi in Southern California, where he also writes speculative YA fiction. He has been a high school English teacher, an Assistant Language Teacher in Japan, and a college professor. His academic work in children’s literature can be found in *The Looking Glass*. He has fiction at Cast of Wonders, *Spaceports and Spidersilk* , The Young Explorer's Adventure Guide Vol 6, *Highlights for Children*, Diabolical Plots, and other venues.

He is a former Assistant Editor, narrator, and host for Cast of Wonders and current Associate Editor for Podcastle.

## Work on Escape Artists

### Writing

#### Cast of Wonders

* CW272 Banned Books Week 2017 - The Forbidden Books of Da Lin Monastery, written and read by **Andrew K Hoe**

### Narration

#### Cast of Wonders

* CW272 Banned Books Week 2017 - The Forbidden Books of Da Lin Monastery, by **Andrew K Hoe**
* CW305 All Systems Go, by Gerri Leen
* CW321 The Penelope Qingdom, by Aidan Moher (also as CW339, a staff pick)
* CW406 The Hammer-Royal Ten Step Model for Making the Superhero A-List, by Jason Kimble
* CW438 This is How You Remember, by Phong Quan
* CW455 Little Wonders: Not So Alien After All: Toward the Sploff Zone, by Brenna Harvey
* CW472 AP Literary Theory Suggests This is a Quest, Or What Danny Did Over Spring Break, by Isabel Kim

#### Escape Pod

* EP763 No Spaceship Go, by Annie Bellet
* EP877 He Leaps for the Stars, He Leaps for the Stars, by Grace Chan
* EP884 Zhao and the Flightless Crane, by AJ Mo
* EP896 The AI That Looked at the Sun, by Filip Hajdar Drnovšek Zorko

#### Podcastle

* PC701 Flash Fiction Contest VI: Catch, by Ally Chua
* PC722 Said the Princess, by Dani Atkinson
* PC786 Scales, by M Stevenson

### Host

#### Cast of Wonders

* CW341 The Raptor Snatchers (Andrew's staff pick for 2018), by Rachael K. Jones , read by Kara Grace (originally appeared as CW330 )
* CW376 The Ways of Walls and Words (Banned Books Week 2019), by Sabrina Vourvoulias, read by Ezzy G Languzzi and Isabel Schechter
* CW380 Little Wonders: Taking the Nine to the Last Stop, by Craig Saunders, read by Katherine Inskip and The Ladybug, In Flight by Bogi Takacs, recorded live at Dublin 2019, an Irish Worldcon
* CW383 Dinovember 1 for 2019, Five Functions of Your Bionosaur ,by Rachael K Jones, read by AJ Fitzwater
* CW384 Dinovember 2 for 2019, Sphexa, Start Dinosaur, by Nibedita Sen, read by Tal Minear
* CW385 Dinovember 3 for 2019, Be a Thunder, Release a Roar, by Osahon Ize-Iyamu, read by Takudzwa Sharon Kirimi
* CW402 Gwisins of the New Moon's Eve by Russell Hemmell, read by Nanna Árnadóttir
* CW439 Dinovember 1 for 2020, From Asteroids to Dust, by Priya Chand, read by Tatiana Grey, guest-edited by **Andrew K Hoe**
* CW440 Dinovember 2 for 2020, Velocirapture, by Jennifer Lee Rossman, read by Tatiana Grey, guest-edited by **Andrew K Hoe**, guest-host Aidan Moher
* CW451 Unnamed, by Monte Lin, ready by S. Qiouyi Liu
* CW467 They Shall Find Home Once More (Banned Books Week 2021), by Chelsea Obodoechina, read by Hamdalah Lawal
* CW469 What If We Remembered, by Amadin Ogbewe, ready by Solomon Osadolo
D.K. Wayrd

**D.K. Wayrd** lives in a kudzu-infested corner of North Carolina with one spouse, various animals, and an alter-ego who writes science fiction and fantasy. She enjoys long road trips on twisting backroads, reading until her eyeballs burn, and searching for inter-dimensional portals.

Her work has appeared in *Shock Totem*, *Analog*, *Daily Science Fiction*, and elsewhere.
Dagny Paul

**Dagny Paul** is a lapsed English teacher, failed artist, and sometimes writer who lives in New Orleans, Louisiana. She has an unhealthy (but entertaining) obsession with comic books and horror movies, which she consumes whenever her five-year-old son will let her (which isn't often). Dagny is Assistant Editor of PseudoPod.

## Work on Escape Artists

### Writing

#### Pseudopod

* PP504 There Is No Road through the Woods, read by Tatiana Gomberg
* PP532 Artemis Rising 3 - Flash on the Borderlands XXXVI: *Standard Procedure*, read by Laurice White

### Narrator

#### PodCastle

* PC447 It's A Wonderful Carol, by Heather Shaw & Tim Pratt
* PC474 Asymmetry, by Kendra Fortmeyer
* PCMini100 Seven Things That Oughn't Cut Me, by Jessi Cole Jackson
* PC528 Properties of Obligate Pearls, by L. S. Johnson
* PC537 To the Moon by Ken Liu (read by a full cast)

#### Pseudopod

* PP534 Artemis Rising 3 - In the Country, by Christi Nogle
* PP542 That Only a Mother, by Judith Merril
* PP543 Be Still, My Dear, And Listen, by J. T. Glover
* PP547 Escape to Thin Mountain, by Jon Padgett
* PP551 Alison, by Seras Nikita
* PP562 A Howling Dog, by Nick Mamatas; read by a full cast

#### Cast of Wonders

* CW267 Banned Books Week: For, by Sandra M. Odell
* CW292 Little Wonders 17 - True Selves: *Silver Things*read by Alexis Goble
Angela Slatter

**Angela Slatter** is the author of eight short story collections, including *The Girl with No Hands and Other Tales*, *Sourdough and Other Stories*, *The Bitterwood Bible and Other Recountings*, *Winter Children and Other Chilling Tales* and *A Feast of Sorrows: Stories*. Her work has been adapted for the screen and translated into Japanese, Russian, and Bulgarian. Angela has won a World Fantasy Award, a British Fantasy Award, one Ditmar Award, and five Aurealis Awards.

Angela’s debut novel, *Vigil*, was released by Jo Fletcher Books in 2016, and the sequels *Corpselight* and *Restoration* will follow in 2017 and 2018 respectively.

## Work on Escape Artists

Pseudopod

* PP565 Cuckoo, read by Victoria Winnick
Eleiece Kraweic

**Eleiece Krawiec** has been involved in voice-acting and narration since 2007. Since her initial foray into audio drama, beginning with Star Trek: Excelsior, she has voiced roles for a variety of audio dramas: Misfits Audio (Strange Stories, 5 Minute Classics, Good Sam), 19 Nocturne Boulevard, Darker Projects and, several Star Trek audio dramas, including Star Trek: Outpost, in which she plays the (ongoing) role of Dr. Rachel Winston. She has also done narration for Well Told Tales, Drabble Cast, The Dunesteef Audio Fiction Magazine, and Escape Pod. Eleiece lives in the New Orleans, Louisiana metropolitan area and is, in her day job, a legal secretary.

## Work on Escape Artists

Narration

PodCastle

* PC388 The One They Took Before, by Kelly Sandoval
C. M. Kornbluth

**Cyril M. Kornbluth** (July 2, 1923[1] – March 21, 1958) was an American science fiction author and a member of the Futurians. He used a variety of pen-names, including Cecil Corwin, S. D. Gottesman, Edward J. Bellin, Kenneth Falconer, Walter C. Davies, Simon Eisner, Jordan Park, Arthur Cooke, Paul Dennis Lavond and Scott Mariner. The "M" in Kornbluth's name may have been in tribute to his wife, Mary Byers; Kornbluth's colleague and collaborator Frederik Pohl confirmed Kornbluth's lack of any actual middle name in at least one interview.

## Work on Escape Artists

Escape Pod

* EP429 The Little Black Bag, read by Mat Weller
Claire Humphrey

**Claire Humphrey's** short fiction has appeared in *Strange Horizons*, *Beneath Ceaseless Skies*, *Apex*, *Crossed Genres*, *Fantasy Magazine*, and *PodCastle*. Her short story *Bleaker Collegiate Presents an All-Female Production of Waiting for Godot* appeared in the Lambda Award-nominated collection Beyond Binary, and her short story "The Witch Of Tarup" was published in the critically acclaimed anthology Long Hidden. Spells of Blood and Kin is her first novel. She is represented by Connor Goldsmith of Fuse Literary.

## Work on Escape Artists

Writing

PodCastle

* PC340 Your Figure Will Assume Beautiful Outlines, read by Sue Brophy
* PC326 Haunts, read by Julia Rios
* PC271 Nightfall in the Scent Garden, read by Kara Grace
Chris Williams

**Chris Williams** a professional voice actor of just about every variety you can name. He works with private agencies, New Zealand TV and NZME, radio and a variety of international brand companies, drawing on experience in theater and documentary broadcasting dating back to 1981. He is in demand as a lead singer and MC for hire, working with big bands and variety shows since 2001. Contemporary songwriting is an exciting part of Chris’s passion for expression as he often reflects sociopolitical trends. He also composes music and songs designed to stimulate memory recall to help Alzheimer’s sufferers reconnect with family and friends using the power of music vibration backed by a knowledge of therapeutic harmonics. Chris’s hobbies include, cooking, scuba diving, energy therapy and stress release counselling and vocal coaching.

## Work on Escape Artists

Cast of Wonders

* CW274 Won’t You Please Give One of These Species-Planets a Second Chance?, by Nathan Hillstrom
Dale Bailey

**DALE BAILEY** lives in North Carolina with his family, and has published three novels, **The Fallen**, **House of Bones**, and **Sleeping Policemen** (with Jack Slay, Jr.). His short fiction, collected in **The Resurrection Man’s Legacy and Other Stories**, has been a three-time finalist for the **International Horror Guild Award**, a two-time finalist for the **Nebula Award**, and a finalist for the **Shirley Jackson Award** and the **Bram Stoker Award**. His **International Horror Guild** Award-winning novelette “**Death and Suffrage**” was adapted by director Joe Dante as part of Showtime Television’s anthology series, **Masters of Horror**. His collection, **The End of the End of Everything: Stories**, will be out next March, with a novel, **The Subterranean Season**, to follow

## Work on Escape Artists

Pseudopod

* PP422 Necrosis, read by Simon Meddings
Andrea Phillips

**Andrea Phillips** is an award-winning transmedia writer, game designer and author. Her book, A Creator’s Guide to Transmedia Storytelling, is published by McGraw-Hill and is used to teach courses at USC, Columbia, McGill, and many other universities.

Her transmedia work includes a variety of educational and commercial projects, including Floating City with Thomas Dolby, The Maester’s Path for HBO’s Game of Thrones with Campfire Media, America 2049 with human rights nonprofit Breakthrough, Diesel Reboot with Moving Image & Content, and the independent commercial ARG Perplex City. These projects have variously won the Prix Jeunesse Interactivity Prize, a Broadband Digital award, a Canadian Screen Award, a BIMA, the Origins Vanguard Innovation Award, and others.

Her independent work includes the Kickstarted ongoing serial transmedia project The Daring Adventures of Captain Lucy Smokeheart.

Andrea has spoken at TEDx Transmedia, Future of Storytelling, SXSW, MIT Storytelling 3.0, the Power to the Pixel/IFP Cross-Media Forum, and Nordic Games Conference, and many more events.

Andrea cheats at solitaire (a victimless crime) and Words With Friends (which is less forgivable). Consider yourself warned.

## Work on Escape Artists

Escape Pod

* EP476 In Loco Parentiswas, read by Mur Lafferty
* EP582 Unit Two Does Her Makeup, by Laura Duerr
Aidan Moher

**Aidan Moher** is the Hugo Award-winning founder of the *A Dribble of Ink*, author of “On the Phone with Goblins” and “The Dinosaur Graveyard,” and a regular contributor to Tor.com and the Barnes & Noble SF&F Blog.

He lives on Vancouver Island with his wife and kids, but you can most easily find him on Twitter (@adribbleofink) or his website.

## Work on Escape Artists

### Cast of Wonders

* CW321 The Penelope Qingdom, read by Andrew K Hoe (also as CW339, a Staff Pick)
Bud Sparhawk

**John C. "Bud" Sparhawk** (born August 11, 1937) is an American science fiction writer. He is known for the strong scientific basis of his work and for his humorous science fiction, in particular the Sam Boone series of short fiction.

## Work on Escape Artists

Escape Pod

* EP136 Bright Red Star, read by Paul Haring
* EP378 Scout, read by Corson Bremer
Benjamin C. Kinney

**Benjamin C. Kinney** is an itinerant neuroscientist with a frozen New England heart, though nowadays he lives in St. Louis with two cats and his Martian wife. He no longer creates cyborg monkeys, after too many nights delivering them Prozac. His fiction has appeared in Strange Horizons, PodCastle, Flash Fiction Online, and more. You can find him online at benjaminckinney.com or follow him on twitter @BenCKinney.

He swears this is all true, even the monkeys and the Martians.

Benjamin C. Kinney has been the Assistant Editor of Escape Pod since May 2017.

## Work on Escape Artists

Escape Pod

* EP562 Meltwater, read by Rajan Khanna
* Listener feedback segments since May 2017

PodCastle

* PC426 Sweeter Than Lead, read by Jen R. Albert
David Brin

**David Brin** is a scientist, best-selling author and tech-futurist. His novels include Earth, The Postman (filmed in 1997) and Hugo Award winners *Startide Rising* and *The Uplift War*. A leading commentator and speaker on modern trends, his nonfiction book *The Transparent Society* won the Freedom of Speech Award of the American Library Association. Brin’s newest novel EXISTENCE explores the ultimate question: billions of planets are ripe for life. So where is Everybody? David’s main thread: how will we shape the days and years ahead — and how will tomorrow shape us?

## Work on Escape Artists

Escape Pod

* EP112 The Giving Plague, read by Dr. Jonathon Sullivan
* EP165 Those Eyes, read by Stephen Eley, Anna Eley
* EP495 Aficionado, read by Joe Scalora
Ben Kohanski

**Ben Kohanski** initially became interested in voice work thanks to Pseudopod. He has been an avid listener since all the way back in 2006, and having developed a love of audio fiction, decided to pursue narration. He has since professionally recorded and produced one audiobook, as well as a previous story for Pseudopod, and is available for contract on ACX (hint hint). Though he hails from the grim primordial forests of northwestern Connecticut, he currently lives in Niigata, Japan where he teaches English.

## Work on Escape Artists

Pseudopod

* PP462 Flash On The Borderlands XXIX - Monsters: *Monster,* by Mike Allen
* PP488 A Thing of Terrible Beauty, by Roger Zelazny
Cory Doctorow

**Cory Efram Doctorow** is a Canadian-British blogger, journalist, and science fiction author who serves as co-editor of the blog Boing Boing. He is an activist in favour of liberalising copyright laws and a proponent of the Creative Commons organization, using some of their licenses for his books. Some common themes of his work include digital rights management, file sharing, and post-scarcity economics.

## Work on Escape Artists

Escape Pod

* EP037 Craphound, read by Jesse Thorn
* EP133 Other People's Money, read by Amanda Fitzwater
* EP291 Shannon's Law, read by Mur Lafferty
* EP315 Clockwork Fagin, read by Grant Baciocco
Aliette de Bodard

**Aliette de Bodard** is a writer of fantasy and science fiction (and the very occasional horror piece). Aliette has won two Nebula Awards, a Locus Award, three BSFA (British Science Fiction Association) Awards, as well as Writers of the Future. In 2016, she became the first writer to win two BSFA awards in the same year for Best Novel and Best Short Fiction (see *The Guardian*‘s coverage here). She has also been a finalist for the Hugo, Sturgeon, and Tiptree  Awards.

Her novel, *The House of Shattered Wings*, won the BSFA Award for Best Novel. It is out now from Gollancz (UK/Commonwealth, trade paperback and ebook) and Roc (US, hardback). Turn of the century Paris in the shadow of the Great Houses’ War: quasi-feudal Houses vying for dominion over a ruined city, addictive magic, fallen angels–and entirely too many dead bodies!

Her Aztec mystery-fantasies, *Servant of the Underworld*, *Harbinger of the Storm*, and *Master of the House of Darts*, was published by Angry Robot. They’re currently being released as ebooks by the JABberwocky agency ebook programme.

She is the author of the ongoing Xuya universe series, a group of loosely connected stories in which Chinese and Vietnamese cultures have reached the stars and develop their own mindships, artificial intelligences borne in human wombs and raised in mixed families: a complete list of these stories and some additional background information can be found here. Two short novels are set in this universe: *On a Red Station, Drifting* (a finalist for the Hugo, Locus and Nebula Award), and *The Citadel of Weeping Pearls*, in *Asimov’s* (Oct/Nov 2015 issue). The short story "**Three Cups of Grief, by Starlight**" is a finalist for the inaugural Eugie Foster Memorial Award for Short Fiction.

She lives in Paris, France, in a flat with more computers than she really needs, and uses her spare time to indulge in her love of mythology and history–as well as her love of cooking (the recipe page can be found here).

As a Franco-Vietnamese, Aliette has a strong interest in Ancient Vietnam and Ancient China, and will gladly use any excuse to shoehorn those into her short or long fiction. Visit her homepage for a more extensive bio and directions to find more of her work.

## Work on Escape Artists

Escape Pod

* EP408 Immersion (2012 Hugo Award nominee), read by Amy Robinson
	+ EP408a Immersion (reposted to recognize nominee for first Eugie Foster Award)
Adam Corbin Fusco

**Adam Corbin Fusco** is a writer whose fiction has appeared in ***Realms of Fantasy,******Beneath Ceaseless Skies,******Weird Tales,******The Year’s Best Fantasy and Horror***, and other publications. His website is at **The Tantisper Tower**

## Work on Escape Artists

Pseudopod

* PP456 Flash on the Borderlands XXVI - Official Reports: *N0072-JK1: Study of Synaptic Response of the Organism to Spontaneous Stimulation of Vulnerability Zones. Photographic Analysis,* read by Erik Luke
Bill Ruhsam

**Bill Ruhsam** lives in Atlanta, Georgia with his wife, son and two cats. Follow him on his blog at The Evil Eyebrow.

## Work on Escape Artists

### Pseudopod

* PP298 The Long Road To The Sea, by James L. Sutter
* PP358 Apathetic Flesh, by Darren O. Godfrey
* PP508 Defects, by Colin Wolcott
* PP623 Greener Pastures, by Michael Wehunt

### PodCastle

* PC024 It Takes a Town, by Stephen V. Ramey
* PC042 De La Tierra, by Emma Bull
Dantzel Cherry

**Dantzel Cherry** teaches pilates and raises her daughter, and by night/naptime she writes. Her baking hours follow no rhyme or reason. She is prone to dance as the need arises, and it often does. Her stories have appeared in Fireside, Galaxy’s Edge, InterGalactic Medicine Show, and other magazines and anthologies. She lives in Fort Worth, Texas with her husband, daughter, and requisite cat.

## Work on Escape Artists

Cast of Wonders

* CW201 Miss Darcy’s First Intergalactic Ballet Class, read by M.K. Hobson
	+ CW228 Staff Pick 2016 - Miss Darcy’s First Intergalactic Ballet Class
* CW277 Little Wonders 15: Monster Mayhem - *Brothers in Stitches,* read by Dave Thompson
D. S. McNab

**D. S. McNab**, who previously worked in the creatively challenged world of finance, is a lover of all writing genres. However, sci-fi and fantasy hold a special place in her heart. When she’s not writing about magic and aliens, she’s working as a freelance editor or cuddling with her husband and two dogs in sunny Florida. Her work has appeared in Youth Imagination Magazine.

## Work on Escape Artists

Escape Pod

* EP574 Yosemite, read by Erik Luke
Best of PodCastle

PodCastle celebrated their 10th Anniversary in 2018 with a special re-airing of the five episodes selected by PodCastle listeners as their favorites.

Voting took place in February, and the top 5 all-time fan favorites aired daily from April 2-6 2018.

10th Anniversary Best of Week:

* PC516e #1: The Paper Menagerie, by Ken Liu, read by Rajan Khanna
* PC516d #2: Makeisha In Time, by Rachael K. Jones, read by K. Tempest Bradford
* PC516c #3: Sinners, Saints, Dragons, and Haints, in the City Beneath the Still Waters, by N.K. Jemisin, read by Laurice White
* PC516b #4: In the Stacks, by Scott Lynch, read by a full cast: Norm Sherman, Peter Wood, Dave Thompson, Wilson Fowlie, M.K. Hobson, Graeme Dunlop, Anna Schwind, Ann Leckie, Alasdair Stuart, Rachel Swirsky and Marshal Latham
* PC516a #5: Without Faith, Without Law, Without Joy, by Saladin Ahmed, read by Steve Anderson
Benjamin Blattberg

**Ben Blattberg** is a software developer, improviser, and writer currently living in Austin, TX, as long as there are no follow­up questions on any of those facts. His stories have appeared in Tina Connolly’s Toasted Cake, Crossed Genres, and Pornokitsch.

## Work on Escape Artists

Pseudopod

* PP538 Flash on the Borderlands XXXVII: Higher Beings Command:*The Hole At The Top of the World*, read by John Chu

PodCastle

* PC417 Archibald Defeats the Churlish Shark-Gods, read by Norm Sherman
Anton Stark

**Anton Stark** is the pseudonym of a Portuguese professional editor and translator, amateur historian and hoplologist, and neophyte historical reenactor. He was born in 1991, a few short months before the dissolution of the Soviet Union. Coincidence? Almost certainly. Or was it?

His recent works include the first Portuguese cyberpunk anthology, *Proxy* (as editor), and the short story “Videri Quam Esse” in the *Steampunk International Anthology* (published by New Con Press in the UK, Editorial Divergência in Portugal, and Osuuskumma in Finland).

## Work on Escape Artists

### Cast of Wonders

* CW337 Silkstrand, A Minute Of, read by Curtis C. Chen
Austin Malone

**Austin Malone** is a short-fiction author who lives in New Orleans, and is the coordinator of the Crescent City Critters writer’s group.

Those who are curious about his work and would like to use their personal summoning-circle to conjure his presence for further discourse are urged to use vanilla-scented black candles and only top-shelf rum. Seriously. If you even think about using Bacardi he’ll rip your soul out through your nostrils. Just don’t.

For those who would prefer to enjoy his words at a safe distance, he invites you to visit sippinghemlocktea.com/.

## Work on Escape Artists

### Pseudopod

* PP576 Flash on the Borderlands XLI: Flash Fiction Contest 5 Winners - First Place: “Two Step”, by Drew Czernik
* PP616 Flash on the Borderlands XLIV: Objectification - “I Am Your Dog”, by Jen C.A. Morris

### PodCastle

* PC483 Thirteen Bullets, by Laurence Raphael Brothers
Brian Griggs

**Brian Griggs** has been an educator for twelve years and has been encouraged to write fiction and poetry by his students and co-workers. He hopes his stories inspire curiosity and wonder in students of all ages.

## Work on Escape Artists

Cast of Wonders

* CW022 Rust, read by Graeme Dunlop
* CW093 - Little Wonders II - An Alchemist’s Limit, read by Graeme Dunlop
Aeryn Rudel

**Aeryn Rudel** is a freelance writer and editor from Seattle, Washington. He is currently writing a series of novels set in the steampunk world of the Iron Kingdoms for Privateer Press. He is a notorious dinosaur nerd, an obscure polearms expert, a baseball connoisseur, and he has mastered the art of fighting with sword-shaped objects (but not actual swords). Aeryn runs a blog called Rejectomancy, which is a blunt and honest look at professional writing and the rejection that goes along with it. The tag line is: Writing, rejection, and taking it like a pro.

## Work on Escape Artists

Pseudopod

* PP509 Night Games, read by Rish Outfield
Adam Pracht

**Adam Pracht** lives in Kansas, but asks that you not hold that against him. He works full-time as the public relations coordinator at McPherson College, where he also received his master’s in higher education administration in spring 2016. He’s excited to get his life back. He was the 2002 college recipient of the Robert F. Kennedy award for writing about the disadvantaged and has published a disappointingly slim volume of short stories called “Frame Story: Seven Stories of Sci-Fi & Fantasy, Horror & Humor” which is available from Amazon as an e-Book or in paperback. He’s been working on his second volume – “Schrödinger’s Zombie: Seven Weird and Wonderful Tales of the Undead” – since 2012 and successfully finished the first story. He hopes to complete it before he’s cremated and takes up permanent residence in an urn.

## Work on Escape Artists

Escape Pod

* EP533 2016 Flash Fiction Contest Winners: *Disc Stutter*, by Brian Trent
* EP540 The Right Answer, by James Miller
* EP563 Two Steps Forward, by Holly Schofield
* EP579 Texts From the Ghost War, by Alex Yuschik; read by Trendane Sparks and **Adam Pracht**
* EP601 Wet Fur, by Jeremiah Tolbert
* EP629 An Advanced Reader’s Picture Book of Comparative Cognition, by Ken Liu
Caitlin Marceau

**Caitlin Marceau** is an author and professional editor living and working in Montreal. She prefers to focus her time on journalism and works of horror, but has also been published for poetry as well as creative nonfiction. When she’s not covered in ink or wading through stacks of paper, you can find her ranting about issues in pop culture or nerding out over a good book. She has a play coming out at the end of the year called SHADOW PUPPETS.

Her work can also be found at at Sanitarium Magazine, Shadows at the Door, and Morpheus Tales. Look for her to be featured in “The Women in Horror Annual” issued by the Horror Writers Association.

## Work on Escape Artists

Pseudopod

* PP469 Hunger, read by Brian Rollins
Andrew Leman

**Andrew Leman** is one of the founders and proprietors of the H. P. Lovecraft Historical Society, and has produced and appeared in films, radio dramas, games, music and audiobook projects based on or inspired by Lovecraft’s work, most notably the motion picture of “The Call of Cthulhu” and the Dark Adventure Radio Theatre series.

## Work on Escape Artists

### Pseudopod

* PP569 The Black Stone, by Robert E. Howard
* PP584 Artemis Rising 4: The Drowned Man's Kiss, by Christine Lucas
* PP625 The Golgotha Dancers and These Doth The Lord Hate: “The Golgotha Dancers”, by Manly Wade Wellman
Andrea Subissati

**Andrea Subissati** is the co-host of the Faculty of Horror podcast, a monthly show examining the academic side of horror movies. The Faculty of Horror can be found on Facebook and Twitter.

Andrea read "Darwinism" by Rachel Verkade, featured in Flash on the Borderlands XXVII: What's the Matter With Kids Today? on Pseudopod episode 459.

She and Alexandra West also sat in as special Artemis Rising guest hosts for episode 477, Bug House, by Lisa Tuttle (read by Heather Welliver), and offered a sample of the work they do on Faculty of Horror.
Charity Tahmaseb

**Charity Tahmaseb** has slung corn on the cob for Green Giant and jumped out of airplanes (but not at the same time). She’s worn both Girl Scout and Army green. These days, she writes fiction (short and long) and works as a technical writer. Her short speculative work has appeared in Flash Fiction Online, Deep Magic, and Cicada.

## Work on Escape Artists

Escape Pod

* EP556 In a Manner of Speaking, read by Amy H. Sturgis
Alfred Noyes

**Alfred Noyes** (1880-1958) is primarily remembered as a poet, especially for his ballads “The Highwayman” and “The Barrel-Organ”. Aside from his poetry he wrote a large number of short stories intended to boost the national morale and small number of uncanny stories including this, “The Lusitania Waits” and “The Log of the Evening Star”. He published many novels including the post-apocalyptic **THE LAST MAN** (1940) and his famed trilogy **THE TORCH BEARERS** (1922-1930).

## Work on Escape Artists

Pseudopod

* PP374 Flash on the Borderlands XIX: Blood On The Tracks – Departure, Transit, Arrival; *Midnight Express*, read by Paul Jenkins
Jeremy Carter

Jeremy has produced audio for the *Dunesteef* Audio Fiction magazine, *Far Fetched Fables*, the *Journey Into* podcast and *StarshipSofa* in addition to Cast of Wonders. By day, he teaches physics and maths in the beautiful Peak District. He is a husband, father, photographer, cook and very occasional runner.

## Work on Escape Artists

Cast of Wonders

* CW163 Speaking to Skull Kings, by Emily B. Cataneo; read by Katherine Inskip & **Jeremy Carter**
* CW264 Little Wonders 14 - Lyrical Beauty: *The Best Busker in the World*, by R. K. Duncan
Anatoly Belilovsky

**Anatoly Belilovsky** is a Russian-American author and translator of speculative fiction. He was born in a city that went through six or seven owners in the last century, all of whom used it to do a lot more than drive to church on Sundays; he is old enough to remember tanks rolling through it on their way to Czechoslovakia in 1968. After being traded to the US for a shipload of grain and a defector to be named later (see Wikipedia, Jackson-Vanik amendment), he learned English from Star Trek reruns and went on to become a paediatrician in an area of New York where English is only the fourth most commonly used language. His original work appeared or will appear in the Unidentified Funny Objects anthology, Ideomancer, Nature Futures, Stupefying Stories, Immersion Book of Steampunk, Daily SF, Mammoth Book of Dieselpunk, and Genius Loci anthology, and has been podcast by Cast of Wonders, Tales of Old, and Toasted Cake; his translations from Russian have sold to F&SF, Year’s Best SF #32 (edited by Gardner Dozois,) Grimdark, and Kasma.

## Work on Escape Artists

PodCastle

* PC406 The Little Dog Ohori, read by Tatiana Gomberg
* PC428 Madame Félidé Elopes, by K. A. Teryna translated by **Anatoly Belilovsky;** read by Tina Connolly

Cast of Wonders

* CW24 Kulturkampf , read by Hans Fenstermacher
	+ CW112 Kulturkampf - 2013 Staff pick
* CW30 Karlsson, read by Eric Wagoner
August Marion

**August Marion** is a native of Detroit who now lives in the Pacific Northwest, and works in the tech industry. When he isn’t designing and programming very small computers, he writes stories, and wanders aimlessly (usually not at the same time).

## Work on Escape Artists

Escape Pod

* EP559 Vegetablemen in Peanut Town, read by Trendane Sparks
Justine Eyre

**Justine Eyre** is a classically trained actress who has narrated over three hundred audiobooks. With a prestigious Audie Award and four AudioFile Earphones Awards under her belt, Justine is multilingual and is known for her great facility with accents. She has appeared on stage in leading roles in *King Lear* and *The Crucible* and has starring roles in four films on the indie circuit. Her recent television credits include *Two and a Half Men* and *Mad Men*.

## Work on Escape Artists

Pseudopod

* PP558 Toward the Banner of the King, by T.R. North
Brendan Detzner

**Brendan Detzner** lives, works, and writes in Chicago. His work is sometimes funny, sometimes scary, and usually very strange. His work has appeared in Pseudopod, Bizarrocast, Tales to Terrify, and other places.

Check out his short story collection “Beasts”. He also runs a monthly reading series in Chicago called Bad Grammar Theater.

## Work on Escape Artists

### Pseudopod

* PP120 Iowa Highway, read by Ralph Walters
* PP185 Charlie Harmer Looks Back, read by Eric Luke
* PP335 Charlie Harmer’s Day Off, read by Eric Luke

### PodCastle

* PC396 Giant Episode: Spirits Of The Wind, read by Wilson Fowlie
Donald Jacob Uitvlugt

**Donald Jacob Uitvlugt** lives on neither coast of the United States, but mostly in a haunted memory palace of his own design. His short fiction has appeared in numerous print and online venues, such as Necrotic Tissue and the Wily Writers podcast, as well as the anthology Techno-Goth Cthulhu. He regularly serves as a judge at the weekly one-on-one writing competition at The Writers Arena. He strives to write what he calls “haiku fiction,” stories that are small in scale but big in impact.

## Work on Escape Artists

Cast of Wonders

* CW168 The Tale of the White Tiger, read by Tracey Yuen
	+ CW195 2015 Staff Pick The Tale of the White Tiger
James Tiptree, Jr.

**James Tiptree Jr.** was the pseudonym of **Alice B. Sheldon** (1915-1987). She was a photo-intelligence officer in WWII as well as a CIA agent, which formed the bulk of her career before academia. This experience was influential on her stories, including her in-depth understanding of national and international responses to crises. After her career with the CIA, she achieved a doctorate at **George Washington University** in Experimental Psychology in 1967, and her doctoral dissertation was on the responses of animals to novel stimuli in differing environments. You can see this reflected in her work and in this story. It was at this time that she started writing science fiction stories under a pseudonym to protect her new academic career, and chose a male name to fit in better at the magazines. In addition to James Tiptree, she published under the pseudonym **Raccoona Sheldon**. Tiptree also won two more **Nebulas**, two **Hugos**, and a **World Fantasy Award**. She was inducted into the **Science Fiction Hall of Fame** in 2012. In 1991, the **James Tiptree, Jr. Award** was named in her honor, and recognizes speculative fiction that expands or explores our understanding of gender. This story was later collected in **Her Smoke Rose Up Forever**. If you only pick up one Tiptree collection, and you should, this is a great place to start.

The James Tiptree, Jr. Literary Award is an award encouraging the exploration & expansion of gender.

## Work on Escape Artists

Pseudopod

* PP400 The Screwfly Solution, read by a full cast: Matt Franklin, Tina Connolly, Anna Schwind, Mat Weller, Rish Outfield, Eric Luke, George Hrab, Jarus Durnett
* PP603 Beyond the Dead Reef, read by Amy H. Sturgis
A. T. Greenblatt

**A. (Aliza) T. Greenblatt** is a mechanical engineer by day and a writer by night. She lives in Philadelphia where she’s well acquainted with all four seasons and is known to frequently subject her friends to various cooking and home brewing experiments. She is also a movie watcher, button mashing gamer, traveler, and gym rat. She likes to build things, solve problems and write things down.

A.T. says, "Why don’t I use my full name as my byline? Because when I first Googled myself this Aliza Greenblatt came up. It’s okay though, she beat me to it fair and square."

Aliza has been an editorial assistant at *Every Day Fiction* and a volunteer interviewer at *Flash Fiction Chronicles* where she pestered EDF’s top author of the month with questions.

She is a graduate of Viable Paradise XVI and Clarion West 2017 and her work is forthcoming or has appeared in *Uncanny*, *Strange Horizons*, and *Beneath Ceaseless Skies*, as well as other fine places.

## Work on Escape Artists

### Escape Pod

* EP493 Beyond the Trenches We Lie, read by Andrew Clarke

### PodCastle

* PC509 A Non-Hero's Guide to the Road of Monsters, read by Mike Flinchum
* PC558 A Place to Grow, read by Tatiana Grey

### Cast of Wonders

* CW145 Tell Them Of The Sky, read by Peter Newman
Eric Schwitzgebel

**Eric Schwitzgebel** is a professor of philosophy at the University of California, Riverside, and a cooperating faculty member in UCR’s program for Speculative Fiction and Cultures of Science. (Yes, you can get a PhD in Speculative Fiction at UC Riverside.) His short fiction has appeared in F&SF, Clarkesworld, Nature, The Dark, and elsewhere. He has published bunches of academic articles and op-eds on what it means to believe something; on people’s failure to understand their own character and experiences; on robot rights, group minds, and A.I. consciousness; on ancient Chinese philosophy; on whether we might all be living in a giant computer simulation; and on the mediocre moral behavior of professional ethicists. He blogs about all this stuff and more at The Splintered Mind.

## Work on Escape Artists

PodCastle

* PC475 The Dauphin's Metaphysics, read by Tatiana Grey
A. Merc Rustad

**A. Merc Rustad** is a queer non-binary writer and filmmaker who likes dinosaurs, robots, monsters, and cookies. Merc's fiction has appeared in nifty places like Scigentasy, Daily Science Fiction, and Flash Fiction Online.

## Work on Escape Artists

Escape Pod

* EP480 To the Knife-Cold Stars, read by Mat Weller (featured during Artemis Rising)
* EP529 Of Blessed Servitude, read by Trendane Sparks
* EP561 The Android’s Prehistoric Menagerie, read by Setsu Uzume
* EP615 Lonely Robot on a Rocket Ship in Space, read by Christopher Cornell

PodCastle

* PC385 Where Monsters Dance, read by Tina Connolly
* PC451 Or Be Forever Fallen, read by Curtis C. Chen
* PC481 What the Fires Burn, read by Brian Murphy
* PC518 Iron Aria, read by Kate Baker
Cast of Wonders

Logo by Scott Pond

**Cast of Wonders** is the Parsec Award-winning speculative fiction podcast for Young Adults. In addition to weekly short stories, the podcast has featured Little Wonders flash episodes and a serialized novel, Camp Myth.

Founded in 2011 by Barry J. Northern and Graeme Dunlop, and hosted by editor Marguerite Kenner since 2013, Cast of Wonders joins Escape Artists, Inc. in 2016, and anticipates becoming the first pro-rate paying young adult short fiction audio market.

## Links

New listener? Here are some handy links to get you started:

* List of Staff Picks and Award Winners
* List of Cast of Wonders episodes (full list!)
* Cast of Wonders episode discussions (on our forums!)
Elizabeth Green

**Elizabeth Green** as been reading stories for Podcastle through each of her different life changes: including teaching history of science at a liberal arts college, designing knitting patterns, doing freelance graphic design, and now working as the graphic designer for Girl Scouts of Central Texas. On weekends you can find her and her son playing samurai in the Legend of the Five Rings RPG. She lives in Austin, Texas.

Elizabeth read Beth Cato's story Beat Softly, My Wings of Steel for PodCastle episode 405 during the 2016 Artemis Rising event.

## Work on Escape Artists

Escape Pod

* EP371 A Querulous Flute of Bone, by Cat Rambo

Pseudopod

* PP244 Bruise For Bruise, by Robert Davies

PodCastle

* PC048 “I’ll Gnaw Your Bones,” the Manticore Said, by Cat Rambo
* PCMini031 Down In The Flood, by Nisi Shawl
* PC062 The Fiddler of Bayou Teche, by Delia Sherman
* PC112 The Somnambulist, by David J. Schwartz
* PC115 Monstrous Embrace, by Rachel Swirsky
* PC143 Hurt Me, by M.L.N. Hanover
* PC167 Portage, by An Owomoyela
* PC251 Throwing Stones, by Mishell Baker
* PC292 Giant Episode: Scry, by Anne Ivy
* PC349 This Sullied Earth, Our Home, by Monidipa Mondal
* PC357 The Specialist's Hat, by Kelly Link
* PC405 Beat Softly, My Wings of Steel, by Beth Cato (Artemis Rising 2016)
Kristin Janz

**Kristin Janz** is a Canadian speculative fiction writer who has lived in the Boston area since 1998. Her fiction has appeared in Daily Science Fiction, On Spec, and Crowded Magazine, and she is a graduate of the Clarion West Writers Workshop.

Kristin and her husband, Donald S. Crankshaw, have edited and are independently publishing an anthology of speculative fiction stories that engage with Christianity in some way–Christian characters, themes, or cosmology. *Mysterion: Rediscovering the Mysteries of the Christian Faith* will be available in both paperback and ebook in August of 2016, and includes stories by Nebula-nominated authors Beth Cato and Kenneth Schneyer.

## Work on Escape Artists

Escape Pod

* EP541 As Travelers In Sky Boats, read by Ibba Armancas
Donna Scott

**Donna Scott** is a Comedian, editor, poet, blogger and has Chaired the **British Science Fiction Association**. Check out her website for details of upcoming publications and appearances.

## Work on Escape Artists

Escape Pod

* EP451 The Aliens Made of Glass, by Helena Bell

Pseudopod

* PP314 What Happens When You Wake Up In The Night, by Michael Marshall Smith
* PP367 Flash on the Borderlands XVIII: Flash Fiction Contest III: The Violin Family, by James Douglas (2nd place)
* PP483 Jenny (A Fairytale), by Michael Byrne
Andrew Reid

**Andrew Reid** is a teacher and author currently living in Sweden. He writes fantasy and alt-history, and harbours an unhealthy obsession with coffee. Not to mention being a damn fine Destiny team mate, if you’re looking for one. His first fantasy novel, Kingdom’s Fall, is currently available on Amazon.

Cook, climber, teacher, writer. Fiercely articulate and creative. He and Lou and Alasdair, survived redshirting **World FantasyCon** together in 2014. That may mean at some point they are obligated to open a bar.

## Work on Escape Artists

Writing

Pseudopod

* PP410 Flash On The Borderlands XXII: Britshock: "Kraken Rising, " read by Dave Robison
* PP461 Flash On The Borderlands XXVIII - Britshock II: "Run Forever," read by Joe Scalora

Narration

Pseudopod

* PP549 Flash on the Borderlands XXXVIII - Letting Go: *Good Boy*, by Ruth EJ Booth

Cast of Wonders

* CW202 Henkie’s Fiddle, by Vonnie Winslow Crist
Kristi DeMeester

**Kristi DeMeester** is the author of *Beneath*, a novel published by Word Horde, and *Everything That’s Underneath*, a short fiction collection forthcoming this year from Apex Publications. Her short fiction has appeared in Ellen Datlow’s *The Year’s Best Horror Volume 9*, *Year’s Best Weird Fiction Volumes 1 and 3,* in addition to publications such as Pseudopod, The Dark, and several others.

In her spare time, she alternates between telling people how to pronounce her last name and how to spell her first.

## Work on Escape Artists

### Pseudopod

* PP568 The Room in the Other House, read by Jacquie Duckworth
* PP629 Slipping Petals from Their Skins, read by Nika Harper
Kevin J. Anderson

**Kevin J. Anderson** has published more than 140 books, 56 of which have been national or international bestsellers.  He has written numerous novels in the Star Wars, X-Files, and Dune universes, as well as unique steampunk fantasy novels *Clockwork Angels* and *Clockwork Lives*, written with legendary rock drummer Neil Peart, based on the concept album by the band Rush. His original works include the Saga of Seven Suns series, the Terra Incognita fantasy trilogy, the Saga of Shadows trilogy, and his humorous horror series featuring Dan Shamble, Zombie PI. He has edited numerous anthologies, written comics and games, and the lyrics to two rock CDs. Anderson and his wife Rebecca Moesta are the publishers of WordFire Press.

## Work on Escape Artists

Escape Pod

* EP074 Paradox & Greenblatt, Attorneys at Law, read by J.C. Hutchins
* EP096 Job Qualifications, read by Steve Anderson

Pseudopod

* PP013 Redmond’s Private Screening, read by Scott Sigler
Hans Fenstermacher

**Hans Fenstermacher** was born in front of the Iron Curtain in Munich, Germany. He grew up in the crosshairs of the Cold War in Berlin. With that kind of provenance, what else could he do but study Russian? Despite the tutelage (read: learning swearwords) from his T.A., Anatoly, and after a stint really deep behind the Iron Curtain in Leningrad, Hans managed to graduate with a degree in Russian. He went on to a lengthy career in localization (if you have to ask what it is, you don’t need it) and language-related exploits.

## Work on Escape Artists

Cast of Wonders

* CW024 Kulturkampf, by Anatoly Belilovsky
	+ CW112 Kulturkampf, by Anatoly Belilovsky (Staff Picks 2013)
Halima Salah

**Halima Salah** is Somali-Canadian civil engineer and artist currently based in the US. She also co-curates an online zine—.BYTE—a zine for aliens and humans.

Her work has been exhibited in Germany and the UK. Her zine-making and illustration work explore alienation and technology.

## Work on Escape Artists

### Escape Pod

* EP662 Another Day in the Desert, by Mame Bougouma Diene
Barbara A. Barnett

Barbara A. Barnett is a writer, musician, orchestra librarian, Odyssey Writing Workshop graduate, coffee addict, wine lover, and all-around geek.

Her short fiction has appeared in publications such as *Beneath Ceaseless Skies*, *Lady Churchill's Rosebud Wristlet*, *Orson Scott Card's Intergalactic Medicine Show*, *Daily Science Fiction*, and *Flash Fiction Online*. Barbara lurks about the Philadelphia area, where she lives with her husband and a pantsless stuffed monkey named Super Great.

## Work on Escape Artists

### Cast of Wonders

* CW259 Seer's Salad, read by Jen R. Albert
* CW327 Memories of Mirrored Worlds, read by S.B. Divya
J.J. Campanella

**J.J. Campanella** is a scientist, teacher, and writer who lives in beautiful Northern New Jersey with his family and collection of singing potatoes. He has been a well-known story narrator and scientific voice-of-reason on the StarShipSofa Podcast for the last eight years. He has his own story website as well — Uvula Audio– where he narrates different books in the public domain, as well as tales from his own specially touched brain-pan.

## Work on Escape Artists

Escape Pod

* EP549 The Battaile of the Mudde, by Anthony Tardiff
Chris Lewis Carter

**Chris Lewis Carter** has been featured in over a dozen publications – both online and print – including **Murky Depths**, **Niteblade**, **Word Riot**, **Nelson Literacy** 8, and **Pseudopod 252: The Cord**. He is currently working on his first novel, and is the lead writer for **Rival Threads: Last Class Heroes**, a video game scheduled to be released for iOS, Windows, and Mac in 2012.

## Work on Escape Artists

Pseudopod

* PP252 The Cord, read by David Michel
* PP285 Kill Screen, read by Josh Roseman

Cast of Wonders

* CW092 Snakes and Campers, read by Graeme Dunlop
* Camp Myth serialization:
	+ CM01 Camp Myth:Phoenix Watching – Chapter 1
	+ CM02 Camp Myth:Phoenix Watching – Chapter 2
	+ CM03 Camp Myth:Phoenix Watching – Chapter 3
	+ CM04 Camp Myth:Phoenix Watching – Chapter 4
	+ CM05 Camp Myth:Phoenix Watching – Chapter 5
	+ CM06 Camp Myth:Phoenix Watching – Chapter 6
	+ CM07 Camp Myth:Phoenix Watching – Chapter 7
	+ CM08 Camp Myth:Phoenix Watching – Chapter 8
	+ CM09 Camp Myth:Phoenix Watching – Chapter 9
	+ CM10 Camp Myth:Phoenix Watching – Chapter 10
	+ CM11 Camp Myth:Phoenix Watching – Chapter 11
	+ CM12 Camp Myth:Phoenix Watching – Chapter 12
	+ CM13 Camp Myth:Phoenix Watching – Chapter 13
	+ CM14 Camp Myth:Phoenix Watching – Chapter 14
	+ CM15 Camp Myth:Phoenix Watching – Chapter 15