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Mike Flinchum

**Mike Flinchum** is new to book narration but has worked in the audio industry since 2010. He is a lover of books and low budget cinema. His podcast, Cinema Toast Crunchcast, has been fortunate enough to guest and interview some of horror’s best writers and directors. Being a poor reader as a child, audiobooks opened up the world of books to him where otherwise there would be none. Now he is both an avid reader as well as a published author. His most recent publication is a short story titled, “My Dearest June” in the Zimbell House Publishing Anthology: Ghost Stories.

## Work on Escape Artists

PodCastle

* PC509 A Non-Hero's Guide to the Road of Monsters, by A.T. Greenblatt
Michael M. Rader

**Michael M. Rader** is an electrical engineer and busy father who writes horror and science fiction stories in the slivers of time found between those responsibilities. His other works can be found in Fiction Vortex magazine and World Weaver Press’ Corvidae anthology.

## Work on Escape Artists

Pseudopod

* PP524 Flash on the Borderlands XXXV - The Kids Are All Wrong: *MeetWorks Daycare,* read by Troy Volin
Lena Coakley

Lena Coakley’s YA fantasy, Witchlanders, was called “one stunning teen debut” by Kirkus Reviews and won an SCBWI Crystal Kite award. Her forthcoming novel, Worlds of Ink and Shadow, is a portal fantasy about the young Brontë siblings and the imaginary countries they wrote about in childhood. It will be out January 5th from Amulet Books in the US and Harper Collins Canada in Canada. She lives in Toronto and is the current Vice President of CANSCAIP, the Canadian Society of Children’s Authors, Illustrators and Performers. Follow her on twitter @lenacoakley
Megan Lee Beals

**Megan Lee Beals** works in a bookstore by day, and on her writing by night. In the hours that belong to neither category, she knits vintage color-work patterns into sweaters and hats. She’s hoping to find time in between all that to learn sword-making, particularly swords forged from the blood of dragons. Megan lives in Tacoma, Washington with her husband and a one-eyed cat. Her fiction has appeared in The Iowa Review, Intergalactic Medicine Show, and the Toasted Cake podcast.

## Work on Escape Artists

Cast of Wonders

* CW297 Artemis Rising 4 – Where You Get Your Ideas, read by Dani Daly
Michael A. Burstein

**Michael A. Burstein** was born in New York City, and grew up in Forest Hills in the borough of Queens. He attended Hunter College High School in Manhattan and went on to Harvard College where he was a member of the Harvard-Radcliffe Science Fiction Association. He graduated Harvard in 1991 with a degree in Physics; in 1993 he earned a Master's in Physics from Boston University. In 1994 Burstein attended the Clarion Workshop. In 1995 he studied comic book writing under Dennis O'Neil at the School of Visual Arts in Manhattan.

## Work on Escape Artists

Escape Pod

* EP053 Seventy-Five Years (2006 Hugo Award nominee), read by Deborah Green
Priya Sharma

**Priya Sharma** has appeared in Interzone, Black Static, Albedo One and on Tor.com. She’s been anthologized in several of Ellen Datlow’s Best Horror of the Year series, Paula Guran’s Year’s Best Dark Fantasy & Horror series, Jonathan Strahan’s The Best Science Fiction & Fantasy 2014, Steve Haynes’ Best British Fantasy 2014 and Johnny Main’s Best British Horror 2015. She’s also been on previous Locus’ Recommended Reading Lists (2010, 2012, 2013 & 2015). She is a Shirley Jackson Award Nominee and British Fantasy Award nominee for her story “Fabulous Beasts”, which appeared on Tor.com in 2015.

## Work on Escape Artists

Pseudopod

* PP514 The Show, read by Andrea Richardson
Phil Lunt

Hailing from the rain-sodden, North Western wastelands of England, **Phil Lunt** has dabbled in many an arcane vocation. From rock-star to conveyor-belt scraper at a bread factory, milkman to world’s worst waiter. He’s currently a freelance designer, actor and sometime writer/editor. For his sins he’s a supporter of Bolton Wanderers and Chair of the **British Fantasy Society**. He’s still considering becoming an astronaut when he grows up.

## Work on Escape Artists

### Pseudopod

* PP512 Boys, by Damien Laughlin
* PP618 Goblins & Little Orphant Annie: “Little Orphant Annie”, by James Whitcomb Riley
* PP626 Blue John by D.K. Wayrd

### Cast of Wonders

* CW175 Above Decks, by Terry Ibele
* CW222 The George Business, by Roger Zelazny, read by full cast: Wilson Fowlie, **Phil Lunt**, Cheyenne Wright
Michael G. Ryan

**Michael G. Ryan** considers himself a late bloomer as a published author–but not as a writer. He’s been writing for over 40 years, but is only now taking all those short stories and novels out of the digital bottom drawer and submitting them for consideration.

He’s planning a Kickstarter in early 2016 for his novel *None of This Has Happened Yet*, a fictional biography told in short stories presented in reverse order. He’s been an editor in the gaming industry for twenty years, working now as the director of publications for Privateer Press.

Michael's story, The Authorized Biography was serialized and read by Brian Rollins for Cast of Wonders episodes 197 and 198.
Rich Larson

**Rich Larson** was born in West Africa, has studied in Rhode Island and worked in Spain, and at 23 now writes from Edmonton, Alberta. His speculative fiction received the 2014 Dell Award and 2012 Rannu Prize for Writers of Speculative Fiction, and has been nominated for the Theodore Sturgeon Prize, while his literary short work has been nominated for both the Pushcart and Journey Prize. He was a semifinalist for the 2013 Norman Mailer Poetry Prize, and in 2011 his novel *Devolution*was a finalist for the Amazon Breakthrough Novel Award. Alongside writing, he enjoys soccer, basketball, foreign languages, travel, sketching, and pool.

Rich's story, M.F.ing Retroparty Freestyle, was read by Nathaniel Lee on Escape Pod episode 514.
Michael Byrne

**Michael Byrne** is a London based Writer/ Film Maker originally from Rochdale in Lancashire. He writes for his own blog, Static Culture and is currently seeking representation. He says he never truly sets out to write dark or subversive stories but for whatever reason they usually end up that way. His previous work, ‘Gast’, received wonderful reviews from readers of Scribble Magazine, coming second in their quarterly competition. ‘Gast’ can also be found at Static Culture. His film work people can be viewed at Cracked Films.

Michael's story Jenny (A Fairytale) was read by Donna Scott for Pseudopod episode 483.
Robert Silverberg

**Robert Silverberg** (born January 15, 1935) is an American author and editor, best known for writing science fiction. He is a multiple winner of both Hugo and Nebula Awards, a member of the Science Fiction and Fantasy Hall of Fame, and a Grand Master of SF. He is noted for having attended every Hugo Awards ceremony since the inaugural event in 1953.

## Work on Escape Artists

Escape Pod

* EP086 When We Went to See the End of the World, read by J.C. Hutchins
* EP093 {Now + n, Now - n}, read by Stephen Eley
* EP113 Ishmael in Love, read by Stephen Eley
* EP130 What We Learned From This Morning's Newspaper, read by Stephen Eley
* EP153 Schwartz Between the Galaxies, read by Stephen Eley
* EP346 Hawksbill Station, read by Paul Tevis
* EP369 Passengers, read by Michael Spence
Mary Wilkins-Freeman

**Mary Wilkins-Freeman** was born in Randolph, Massachusetts in 1852. Freeman’s parents were orthodox Congregationalists, causing her to have a very strict childhood. Religious constraints play a key role in some of her works. She passed the greater part of her life in Massachusetts and Vermont. Freeman began writing stories and verse for children while still a teenager to help support her family and was quickly successful. Her best known work was written in the 1880s and 1890s while she lived in Randolph. She produced more than two dozen volumes of published short stories and novels and is best known for two collections of stories, *A Humble Romance and Other Stories* (1887) and *A New England Nun and Other Stories* (1891). Her stories deal mostly with New England life and she wrote a small but noteworthy number of supernatural & weird stories. In April 1926, Freeman became the first recipient of the William Dean Howells Medal for Distinction in Fiction from the American Academy of Arts and Letters. She died in 1930.

## Work on Escape Artists

Pseudopod

* PP529 Luella Miller, read by Julie Hoverson
N. R. Lambert

**N. R. Lambert** grew up in New York City and learned early to avoid the empty subway car. Her writing has been published by Metaphorosis, Tor.com, TIME, LIFE, and Entertainment Weekly. In addition to her work as a pop culture author and copywriter, she volunteers with Read Ahead NYC, a reading-based mentoring program for elementary school students. She currently lives in Queens with her family and two saucy cats.

## Work on Escape Artists

Pseudopod

* PP587 Artemis Rising 4: When the Slipling Comes to Call, read by tM. K. Hobson  and Tina Connolly
Maria Deira

**Maria Deira** grew up in the high desert of Eastern Oregon but now lives in the cozy gloom of the Willamette Valley. Her fiction has been published in *A cappella Zoo*, *Fiction Southeast*, *Word Riot*, *GigaNotoSaurus*, and *Strange Horizons*. She’s currently working on a novel.

## Work on Escape Artists

Pseudopod

* PP015 Regis St. George, read by Mur Lafferty

PodCastle

* PC161 The Giant of Malheur Park, read by Anna Schwind
Pete Milan

**Pete Milan** is a writer and voice actor. Pete can be heard in the horror audio drama **PHANTOM CANYON** from Pendant Audio, available wherever audiobooks are sold. Visit **Pete Milan: Cosmopolitan Jackadandy** for more from him.

## Work on Escape Artists

Cast of Wonders

* CW264 Little Wonders 14 - Lyrical Beauty: *The Weald Maiden's Will*, by Nicholas Ian Hawkins
Thomas Ligotti

**Thomas Ligotti** is one of the foremost contemporary authors of supernatural horror literature. His works been honored with several awards, including the Horror Writers Association’s Bram Stoker award for the collection **THE NIGHTMARE FACTORY** (1996) and the novella **MY WORK IS NOT YET DONE** (2002).

Revised, definitive editions of his first three story collections — **SONGS OF A DEAD DREAMER**, **GRIMSCRIBE**, and **NOCTUARY** — were published in 2010, 2011, and 2012, respectively. Revised editions of his collections **THE AGONIZING RESURRECTION OF VICTOR FRANKENSTEIN AND OTHER GOTHIC TALES** and **DEATH POEMS** were issued in 2013.

Ligotti has also published **THE CONSPIRACY AGAINST THE HUMAN RACE** (2010), a nonfiction work that explores the intersection of the darker byways of literature, philosophy, and psychology. Forthcoming titles by Ligotti include a collection of interviews and a chapbook consisting of two newly written stories and a Penguin edition for both **SONGS OF A DEAD DREAMER** and **GRIMSCRIBE** this fall. The web site **Thomas Ligotti Online** was founded as a forum for discussions of and media related to Ligotti’s writings as well as those of wide range of authors, artists, and musicians whose work is associated with the horror genre, among other areas of interest to devotees of unconventional art and thought.

Ligotti's story, Drink to Me Only With Labyrinthine Eyes, appeared on Pseudopod episode 434, read by Rish Outfield.
Leeman Kessler

**Leeman Kessler** is a Nigerian-born American actor who, since 2010, has been performing as HP Lovecraft on stage, film, and in his popular web-series advice show, *Ask Lovecraft*.

He can be heard regularly on his horror podcast *Miskatonic Musings*.

## Work on Escape Artists

### Pseudopod

* PP618 Goblins & Little Orphant Annie: "Goblins" by Orrin Grey

### PodCastle

* PCMini92 Chatter the Teeth, by Kurt Hunt
Megan Leigh

**Megan Leigh** is editor of pop culture blog Pop Verse and co-host of feminist speculative fiction podcast Breaking the Glass Slipper. Her writing has appeared on SFWA, SFF World, Pornokitsch, and Writers’ Workshop.

## Work on Escape Artists

Escape Pod

* EP606 Home Sick, by M. Darusha Wehm

Cast of Wonders

* CW243 The Tentacles Never Lie, by J. W. Alden
Richard Kellum

**Richard Kellum** is a fantasy and horror author, daydreamer, and a fellow podcaster. He hosts **Early Draft** along with Chris Brosnahan (whose own serial you should totally be reading too).

Richard has been featured in two Flash on the Borderlands collections on Pseudopod:

* PP410 Flash On The Borderlands XXII: Britshock: "Party at the Witch House" read by Rikki LaCoste
* PP461 Flash On The Borderlands XXVIII - Britshock II: "My Daily Vampire," read by Graeme Dunlop
Mary Robinette Kowal

**Mary Robinette Kowal** is the author of historical fantasy novels: *The Glamourist* Histories series and *Ghost Talkers*. She has received the Campbell Award for Best New Writer, three Hugo awards, the RT Reviews award for Best Fantasy Novel, and has been nominated for the Hugo, Nebula and Locus awards. Her stories appear in Asimov’s, Clarkesworld, and several Year’s Best anthologies. Mary, a professional puppeteer, also performs as a voice actor (SAG/AFTRA), recording fiction for authors including Seanan McGuire, Cory Doctorow, and John Scalzi. She lives in Chicago with her husband Rob and over a dozen manual typewriters.

## Work on Escape Artists

Author:

Escape Pod

* EP186 Chrysalis, read by Cunning Minx
* EP196 Evil Robot Monkey (2009 Hugo Award nominee), read by Stephen Eley
* EP285 Jaiden's Weaver, read by Kij Johnson
* EP296 For Want of a Nail (2011 Hugo Award Winner), read by Mur Lafferty
* EP390 Cerbo un Vitra ujo, read by Veronica Giguere

Narrator:

Escape Pod

* EP175 Reparations, by Merrie Haskell

PodCastle

* PC004 Goosegirl, by Margaret Ronald
Michelle E. Goldsmith

**Michelle Goldsmith** is a Melbourne-based author whose writing often inhabits the shady borderlands between genres.

She has a BSc (majoring in Zoology/Evolutionary Biology) and a Masters degree in Publishing and Communications, with a thesis exploring the author-reader relationship within the contemporary speculative fiction field.

Her life science background and particular fondness for the stranger aspects of the natural world often inform her fiction. Her short fiction has appeared in various publications both within Australia and overseas, and been short-listed for both the Aurealis Award and the Ditmar Award. She has also had works translated.

## Work on Escape Artists

PodCastle

* PC440 The Jellyfish Collector (Aurealis Month), read by Dawn Meredith
Louise Ratcliffe

**Louise Ratcliffe** is a scientist, artist and stay-home Mum. She lives in New Zealand having moved there from England 12 years ago when her Maori husband brought her home. They have 3 children, 3 cats, 9 chickens, 8 ducks and a goat called Steve. She spends her time creating Art Yarn, and knitting body parts and blankets. Her work can be seen on Facebook at her Top o’ the Meadow fibre art page, or you can find her on Ravelry as Giggigoofer.

## Work on Escape Artists

Pseudopod

* PP511 Flash on the Borderlands XXXIII: Corpus *Hand Off*, by S. Siporin
* PP515 The Magician's Apprentice, by Tamsyn Muir

PodCastle

* PC427 Squalor and Sympathy, by Matt Dovey
Liz Colter

**Liz Colter** lives in rural Colorado and spends her time off with her husband, dogs, horses and writing. She is a winner of the Writers of the Future contest and has also had stories published by Galaxy’s Edge Magazine, Urban Fantasy Magazine, and a previous story in Pseudopod (Penance, May 9, 2014) among others. In longer works she has three completed fantasy novels. A full list of her publications and news of her writing can be found at her website.

## Work on Escape Artists

Pseudopod

* PP385 Flash on the Borderlands XX: Community: *Penance*, read by Ant Bacon
* PP485 Softly Into the Morning, read by Devin McLaughlin
Laird Barron

**Laird Barron**, an ex-pat Alaskan, is the author of several books, including *The Imago Sequence and Other Stories*; *Swift to Chase*; and *Blood Standard*. Currently, Barron lives in the Rondout Valley of New York State and is at work on tales about the evil that men do.

## Work on Escape Artists

Pseudopod

* PP594 Mysterium Tremendum - Part 1, read by Jon Padgett
	+ PP595 Mysterium Tremendum - Part 2
	+ PP596 Mysterium Tremendum - Part 3
Naru Sundar

**Naru Dames Sundar** writes speculative fiction and poetry. His fiction has appeared in Lightspeed, Strange Horizons & Nature Magazine. He is a recipient of the 2016 Prix Aurora award for best poem. He lives in Northern California amid redwoods, moss and the occasional turkey.

## Work on Escape Artists

Escape Pod

* EP605 Straight Lines, read by Summer Brooks

PodCastle

* PC478 A Ghost Among the Mangroves, read by Arun Jiwa
Ron Jon

**RON JON** has written and published children’s books; scripts and screenplays for animation and live action; musical lyrics and libretti. He is a student of strange phenomena/parapsychology, horror and children’s literature.

You can hear more of his work at **The Spectre Collector Blog** and **The Spectre Collector Page**. Also, be sure to check out the Killer Blood Shroom Cult hymns at **The Fruits Of Madness**.

## Work on Escape Artists

### Pseudopod

* PP340 Neighbourhood Watch, by Greg Egan
* PP377 Showcase: The Dark Audio Tone Poems of The Spectre Collector, by **Ron Jon**; read by **Ron Jon**
* PP393 West Gate, by Mitchell Edgeworth
* PP429 Flash on the Borderlands XXIV: Femmes Fatales - *The Lady With the Lantern*, by Charlotte Nash
* PP546 Monsters Exist, by Ian McHugh
* PP624 Flash on the Borderlands XLV: Personal Narratives - “Egg”, by Rachel Cassidy
Rebecca J. Allred

**Rebecca J. Allred** is a practicing pathologist living in the Pacific Northwest with her husband and the world’s most spoiled cat. She enjoys horror movies, video games, comic books, and homemade pasta. She is also technically the member of a circus. Her work has appeared in LampLight Magazine; Horror Library, Volume 6; Nightscript II; and the Bram Stoker Award® winning anthology Borderlands 6; among others. When she isn’t busy rendering diagnoses or writing, Rebecca enjoys reading, drawing, and laughing at RiffTrax.

## Work on Escape Artists

Pseudopod

* PP577 From the Fertile Dark, read by Dani Daly
R.K. Kombrinck

**R.K. Kombrinck** is a writer and artist who lives in Cincinnati, Ohio with his wife and two sons. He is a founding cast-member of the popular horror podcast “Night of the Living Podcast.” He enjoys iced-tea (unsweet) and genuinely believes in Sasquatch. His collection, **THESE LONELY PLACES** is available from many fine booksellers.
Sandy Parsons

**Sandy Parsons** has been published in Luna Station Quarterly, Nth Degree, Escape Pod, Amazing Journeys, the anthology *Unparalleled Journeys*, Tabard Inn, State of Imagination, The World of Myth, and Everyday Fiction. She has degrees in physics, molecular biophysics and medical science and works as anesthetist.

## Work at Escape Artists

Escape Pod

* EP534 Joolie & Irdl, read by Nicola Seaton-Clark
Rowena Cory Daniells

**Rowena Cory Daniells** is a fan of the genre who has been going to Conventions since she was eighteen. Over the years she has been involved in Indy Press, run a bookshop, then a graphic art studio. She reared a family of six kids, served on numerous arts committees at a state and national level and went back to study where she did a Masters then taught at University. In her spare time she studied Tae Kwon Do, Aikido and Iaido, the art of the Samurai Sword.

And she’s written a pile of books. Rowena Cory Daniells’s series King Rolen’s Kin has just been released (with stunning new covers) in the US by Solaris Classics.

## Work on Escape Artists

PodCastle

* PC444 The Giant's Lady (Aurealis Month), read by Barry Haworth
S.L. Gilbow

**S.L. Gilbow** is a 2011 graduate of Clarion West Writers Workshop, whose short stories have appeared in The Magazine of Fantasy & Science Fiction, Lightspeed, The Dark Magazine, Betwixt and many other publications. Gilbow is a retired lieutenant colonel and navigator with twenty-six years of Air Force service and over 2000 flying hours in the B-52. He currently teaches English at Thomas Nelson Community College in Hampton, Virginia.

His story Mr. Hill's Death was read by Mat Weller for Pseudopod episode 474.
Paul Di Filippo

**Paul Di Filippo** is an American science fiction writer. He is a regular reviewer for print magazines Asimov's Science Fiction, The Magazine of Fantasy and Science Fiction, Science Fiction Eye, The New York Review of Science Fiction, Interzone, and Nova Express, as well as online at Science Fiction Weekly. He is a member of the Turkey City Writer's Workshop. Along with Michael Bishop, Di Filippo has published a series of novels under the pseudonym Philip Lawson.

## Work on Escape Artists

Escape Pod

* EP043 Little Worker, read by Jonathon Sullivan
* EP058 Shadowboxer, read by Scott Fletcher
Rachel Verkade

Rachel is a Canadian writer whose background is in wildlife biology. Previously she’s been published in The Escapist, The Future Fire, 69 Flavors of Paranoia, Under the Bed, The New Accelerator, Romance Magazine, 365 Tomorrows, and On the Premises. Currently she lives in England with 3 cats, a parrot, and a husband. She works as a writer and editor for the website Nerds Raging under the pseudonym “Here be Dragons” or “The Drunken Dragon Lady”. She’s working on an ongoing comedic review of the works of John Everson, titled “Rape-Rape, the Rapening”
S. L. Scott

**S. L. Scott** is a digital archivist and content writer with a Master’s degree in Professional Writing and Publishing. She has been published in magazines such as Bewildering Stories and Wild Musette, as well as several anthologies, including, Gothic Fantasy: Agents & Spies, Mirrors & Thorns, and Eyes that Pour Forth and Other Stories. Currently, she writes about the craft of world-building in her blog, Woman in the Red Room.

## Work on Escape Artists

Escape Pod

* EP617 Artemis Rising: A Cure for Homesickness, read by Eric Luke
Raj K. Gopal

**Raj Kiran Gopal** is an Associate Editor at PodCastle and a writer of comics and prose**.** He favors the bittersweet, both literally and figuratively; his hobbies and passions include ritualized coffee consumption, hopelessly disorganized chocolate consumption, and unpacking the ethical implications of things. He enjoys roleplaying games of both the table-top and television-front variety. He has a troublesome habit of thinking things that are usually felt, but that’s his way of feeling them.

He is currently training as a full-stack web developer.
Robert Reed

**Robert Reed** lives in Pekin, Indiana with his wife Shelley and despite what the title of the story might imply, they love animals and have 2 dogs, 5 cats and 3 sugar gliders and are amazed that the pets let them all live together. Robert and his daughter Stephanie started NaNoWriMo in 2010 and found writing a great way to spark story ideas and spend father daughter time together. Robert can be found on Facebook by searching for Robert A. Reed, where you can also find out what projects he is currently working on. Robert and his friend Craig co-edit a quarterly magazine called Man-O-Pause where we discuss all things media and story, with the spring issue focused on Euro-Horror.

## Work on Escape Artists

Escape Pod

* EP107 Eight Episodes (2007 Hugo Award nominee), read by MarBelle
* EP386 Finished, read by Joel Nisbet
* EP442a Eater of Bone (part 1), read by Mat Weller
* EP442b Eater of Bone (part 2)

Pseudopod

* PP446 Killing Puppies For Aunt Jenny, read by Dave Thompson
Nancy Fulda

**Nancy Fulda** is a past Hugo and Nebula Nominee and has been honored by Baen Books and the National Space Society for her writing. She has been a featured writer at Apex Online, a guest on the Writing Excuses podcast, and is a regular attendee of the Villa Diodati Writers’ Workshop. Her fiction can be found in Asimov’s Science Fiction Magazine, Daily Science Fiction, Beneath Ceaseless Skies and other professional venues.

## Work on Escape Artists

* EP314 Movement (2012 Hugo Award nominee), read by Marguerite Kenner
* EP546 Recollection, read by Trendane Sparks
* EP593 Planetbound, read by Divya Breed & Trendane Sparks
Rachel Cassidy

**Rachel Cassidy** grew up running wild on horseback in the foothills of the Canadian Rocky Mountains. As a result, she can’t ride a bicycle to save her life. She likes airplanes, cave diving, and technology.

Her work has appeared or is forthcoming in Pseudopod, Dark Moon Digest, The Molotov Cocktail (Pushcart nominated), and others.

She currently lives on Salt Spring Island, B.C., with two yellow dogs of questionable provenance.

## Work on Escape Artists

### Pseudopod

* PP624 Flash on the Borderlands XLV: Personal Narratives - “Egg”, read by Ron Jon
Maurice Broaddus

**Maurice Broaddus’** dark fiction has been published in numerous magazines, anthologies, and web sites, and he’s the author of the urban fantasy series, **THE KNIGHTS OF BRETON COURT**. He has been a teaching artist for over five years, teaching creative writing to elementary, middle, and high school students as well as adults.

His anthology, **DARK FAITH: INVOCATIONS**, has just been released from Apex Books. His **KNIGHTS OF BRETON COURT** trilogy has been released as an omnibus from Angry Robot books.

Maurice's story *Awaiting Redemption* was read by Laurice White for Pseudopod347, Flash on the Borderlands XVI: Trial & Discipline.
Leann Mabry

**Leann Mabry** is the host of the Tag in the Seam podcast.

## Work on Escape Artists

Escape Pod

* EP119 Aliens Want Our Women, by Ramona Louise Wheeler

Pseudopod

* PP020 What You Wish For, by Stephen Dedman
* PP101 Homecoming, by B.J. West
* PP137 The Reign of the Wintergod, by Eugie Foster
* PP220 Flash On The Borderlands VI: Flash Fiction Contest II - *Escape,* by M.E. Smith
Paul Haring

**P.C. Haring** made his debut as a writer and podcast novelist on 01/01/10 with *Cybrosis*. This production met with a strongly favorable response that propelled it to number four on the Podiobooks.com Top Ten list when it was re-launched there that October. His audio fiction can also be heard in Scott Sigler’s *The Crypt: Book 1 — The Crew* and in Philippa Ballantine’s *Chronicles of the Order* anthology. His contribution for Tales from the Archives, co-produced by Philippa Ballantine and Tee Morris, won him the 2012 Parsec Award for Best Short Story. This momentum propelled P.C. Haring into publishing *Cybrosis* as well as his latest project, *Slipspace: Harbinger* independently.

When he isn’t developing new projects for podcast and publication, P.C. Haring works as a corporate accountant in the Chicagoland area and as a husband to his beautiful wife.

## Work on Escape Artists

Escape Pod

* EP136 Bright Red Star, by Bud Sparhawk
* EP320 Thanksgiving Day, by Jay Werkheiser
* EP322 Chicken Noodle Gravity, by J. Daniel Sawyer
* EP305 Midnight Blue, by Will McIntosh
	+ EP630 Flashback Friday: Midnight Blue, by Will McIntosh
S. Kay Nash

**S. Kay Nash** is a writer, editor, and occasional narrator. Raised by a cabal of university professors, anthropologists, and irritated librarians, she holds two degrees as magical wards to protect her from being hauled back into the ivory tower. Her short fiction has appeared in several anthologies including Road Kill: Texas Horror by Texas writers, volume 2.

She lives in Texas with a Mad Scientist and a peaceful contingent of cats and dogs. You can find her on Twitter @Gnashchick.

Former Associate Editor for Escape Pod (2016-2020).
Howard Phillips Lovecraft

**Howard Phillips Lovecraft** (August 20, 1890 – March 15, 1937) was an American author who achieved posthumous fame through his influential works of horror fiction. He was virtually unknown and published only in pulp magazines before he died in poverty, but he is now regarded as one of the most significant 20th-century authors in his genre. Lovecraft was born in Providence, Rhode Island where he spent most of his life. Among his most celebrated tales are "The Call of Cthulhu" and "The Shadow over Innsmouth", both canonical to the Cthulhu Mythos. Lovecraft was never able to support himself from earnings as author and editor. He saw commercial success increasingly elude him in this latter period, partly because he lacked the confidence and drive to promote himself. He subsisted in progressively straitened circumstances in his last years; an inheritance was completely spent by the time that he died at age 46.

## Work on Escape Artists

Pseudopod

* PP100 The Music of Erich Zann, read by B.J. Harrison

Cast of Wonders

* CW143 Dagon, read by Alasdair Stuart
R. K. Duncan

**R. K. Duncan** is a new, hopefully up-and-coming author mostly of fantasy, with a dash of sci-fi and horror thrown in. He writes about fairies and gods and ghosts from a ramshackle apartment in Philadelphia.

In the shocking absence of any cats, he lavishes spare attention on cast iron cookware and his long-suffering and supportive partner.

Before settling on writing, he studied linguistics and philosophy at Haverford college. His story “Medium Matters” appeared on Diabolical Plots in August 2018, and occasional musings as well as links to all his work can be found at rkduncan-author.com.

## Work on Escape Artists

### Pseudopod

* PP620 Farewell Concert at the World’s End, read by Spencer Disparti

### Cast of Wonders

* CW264 Little Wonders 14 - Lyrical Beauty: “The Best Busker in the World”, read by Katherine Inskip and Jeremy Carter
Michael Stone

**Michael Stone** is an English author. He still lives in the area with his wife and daughter. He has sold stories to online and print magazines such as Continuum SF, Kopfhalter! and Fusing Horizons, as well as appearing in the anthologies Cold Glass Pain, Teddy Bear Cannibal Massacre and Robots and Time. Forthcoming are stories in Twisted Cat Tales, Dred, Space Squid and Electric Spec.

## Work on Escape Artists

Pseudopod

* PP005 Sacred Skin, read by Paul S. Jenkins
V. N. Winnick

**V. N. Winnick** is a writer and editor living in Canada’s oil money heartland, if such a thing can be said to have a heart. They have written on sex, arts, and culture for various local magazines (including GayCalgary and Beatroute), done editorial work for the venerable EDGE Science Fiction and Fantasy Press, and had several children’s educational books published. Oh, and they’re a slusher for Pseudopod, too.

Doc, read by Wilson Fowlie on Pseudopod episode 467, is V.N’s first published fiction.
Rock Manor

**Rock Manor** is a voice actor specializing in audiobook narration and audio plays. His voice work has been featured on multiple horror podcasts and programs. He currently produces the horror audiobook web series and podcast, Manor House. Podcast episodes can be found on iTunes under Manor House: The Podcast.

## Work on Escape Artists

Pseudopod

* PP451 The New Arrival, by Miranda Suri
* PP513 Flash on the Borderlands XXXIV: Interstices - *Subcutaneous*, by Nicholas Conley
Pamela Gay

**Dr. Pamela L. Gay**, a lifetime stargazer, has followed her obsession to a profession. Today Pamela runs the CosmoQuest, a virtual research facility. This second generation citizen science site is designed to provide the public with opportunities to participate in NASA related science programs, while also giving them access to online seminars, star parties, classes and more.
Laurence Raphael Brothers

**Laurence Raphael Brothers** is a writer and technologist. He has published short fiction at such venues as Nature magazine, the New Haven Review, and the Sockdolager, and he is nearing completion of a new novel, Evolutionary Intelligence Enkidu, a near-future military-aviation, alien-invasion, AI romance.

## Work on Escape Artists

PodCastle

* PC483 Thirteen Bullets, read by Austin Malone
Paul Cram

**Paul Cram** is a scrappy actor whose scrappy characters have died in just about every way imaginable as they’ve tried to make their way through to the end of the movies that macabre writers have penned them into.

While Paul still considers his voice to be somewhat new to the world of audio books, he has a few full-length novels under his belt, including the love story *Flirting With Death* set against the beauty of Lake Michigan & the Zombie Apocalypse.

When not on a movie set or recording booth, Paul can be found deep-frying chicken wings & cream cheese wontons with his older sister, or arguing about pop culture with his little brother around one of the 10,000 lakes of Minnesota.

## Work on Escape Artists

### Escape Pod

* EP506 Harvester Dreams, by Michael J. DeLuca

### Pseudopod

* PP490 Murmurs of a Voice Foreknown, by Jon Padgett
* PP617 The Culvert by Maxwell Price

### Cast of Wonders

* CW134-CW135 Flowers For The Dead, by Jamie Mason - Part 1, Part 2
* CW156-CW157 The Seal King, by Jennifer Noelle Welch - Part 1, Part 2
* CW205-CW206 Planar Ghosts, by Krystal Claxton - Part 1, Part 2
* CW250 Blood and Water, by Jason Kimble (also as CW289, a 2017 Staff Pick)
Logan Waterman

**Logan Waterman** has a degree in Technical Theatre from California State University, and has worked in many theatres, large and small, professional and amateur. He has also worked for Apple computers, sold hot tubs and comic books, and prepared court documents. He has taught and performed sword-fighting for the stage, and run lights for a local band, until they broke up.

As of writing this bio, he has narrated for The Drabblecast and all five District of Wonders shows, Starship Sofa, Tales To Terrify, Far Fetched Fables, and the late lamented Protecting Project Pulp and Crime City Central, making him the District’s only “Ace” so far. He is thrilled to add Escape Pod to his CV and hopes to get more.

Logan currently lives in Northern California with Grendel, a huge black beast whose primary occupations are sleeping, stalking the fish in the aquarium, and keeping the house safe from the hordes of invisible monsters that come out after dark, and Morgana, a small fluffy Queen who rules her domain with an iron paw. The fish are unimpressed.

## Work on Escape Artists

Escape Pod

* EP573 Whatever Tower, However High, by Julia K. Patt
Marie Brennan

**MARIE BRENNAN** is an anthropologist and folklorist who shamelessly pillages her academic fields for material. She is currently misapplying her professors’ hard work to the Victorian adventure series **THE MEMOIRS OF LADY TRENT**. She is also the author of the doppelanger duology of **WARRIOR AND WITCH**, the urban fantasy **LIES AND PROPHECY**, the **ONYX COURT** historical fantasy series, and more than forty short stories. More information can be found on her website, **Swan Tower**. The third Memoir of Lady Trent, **VOYAGE OF THE BASILISK**, was released in March, 2015.

## Work on Escape Artists

Writing

PodCastle

* PCMini021 The Princess and the…, read by Ann Leckie
* PC068 A Heretic By Degrees, read by Paul Tevis
* PC082 The Twa Corbies, read by Elie Hirschman
* PC122 Kingspeaker, read by Diane Severson
* PC323 The Ascent of Unreason, read by Wilson Fowlie

Pseudopod

* PP206 Flash on the Borderlands IV - "Just when you thought it was finally dead...": *Shadow's Bride*, read by Ben Phillips
* PP218 Flash on the Borderlands V - On the Third Day of Christmas...: *The Snow-White Heart,* read by Ben Phillips
* PP439 Comparison of Efficacy Rates for Seven Antipathetics as Employed Against Lycanthropes, read by Amanda Fitzwater

Reading

PodCastle

* PC057 In Ashes, by Helen Keeble
* PC113 Väinämöinen and the Singing Fish, by Marissa K. Lingen

Pseudopod

* PP260 Saint Nicholas' Helper, by D.K. Thompson
* PP418 Shadow Transit, by Ferrett Steinmetz
Michael Reid

**Michael Ried** bookends his days working to perfect his method for turning cups of tea into stories. His work has appeared on Escape Pod and in *AE: The Canadian Science Fiction Review*. In 2015, he attended the Clarion Writers’ Workshop, from which the main take-away was that he should stop trying to solve story problems by randomly inserting volcanoes. He lives near Toronto, Canada, with his husband, a big white dog, and a volcano. During the middle bits of the day, he teaches astronomy to anyone who will listen.

## Work on Escape Artists

Escape Pod

* EP531 Bend Back the Shadows, read by Summer Brooks

Cast of Wonders

* CW224 Welcome to Willoughby's, read by Motti Schleider
Langley Hyde

**Langley Hyde** has recently had short fiction appear in Terraform, Persistent Visions, and Unidentified Funny Objects 6, edited by Alex Shvartsman. Her novel, *Highfell Grimoires*, was named a Best Book of 2014 in SF/Fantasy/Horror by Publishers Weekly. She currently lives in the Pacific Northwest with her partner, two children, and a rickety old cat.

## Work on Escape Artists

PodCastle

* PC520 One Day, My Dear, I'll Shower You With Rubies, read by Jen R. Albert
Rebecca Schwarz

**Rebecca Schwarz** is a mild-mannered editorial assistant for a scientific journal, but by night she writes science fiction and fantasy stories. Her work has appeared in Interzone, Bourbon Penn, and Daily Science Fiction. She is currently writing her first novel. You can read about her writing life at her website.

Rebecca's story Hands of Burnished Bronze was read by Cheyenne Wright for PodCastle episode 411.
Rey

**Rey** works as an English teacher. She is recovering from gaslighting and C-PTSD, and is basically trying to learn how to be nice to herself full time. Her favorite indulgences are squeeing over cars and comics, collecting toys and second hand books, writing, learning languages, doing puzzles, and enjoying stand-up comedy. SFF and fairy tales are her favorite flavors.
Mary Murphy

**Mary Murphy** is an actress/voice-over artist based in Brooklyn, NY. Narration/Audio Drama highlights include audiobooks for Audible & Dreamscape, an audio drama of Dracula by QuickSilver, and the award-winning children’s audio series Billy Brown. Currently, she can be heard voicing the role of Dashi on Disney Junior’s Octonauts, voicing multiple roles for PBS Kids’ Past/Present, and voicing several characters for the series Muzzy in the US. She also performs regularly in radio theatre and can be heard on the Fireside Mystery Theatre podcast and Midnight Shorts Series.

## Work on Escape Artists

Cast of Wonders

* CW275 Perdita, Meaning Lost, by Edd Vick
PodCastle

Logo by Scott Pond

**PodCastle** is a weekly fantasy podcast producing audio performances of fantasy short fiction, including all the sub genres of fantasy, including magical realism, urban fantasy, slipstream, high fantasy, and dark fantasy. PodCastle launched on 1 April 2008 as part of Escape Artists, Inc., which also produces Escape Pod and Pseudopod.

PodCastle has released hundreds of stories written by authors such as Peter S. Beagle, Nancy Kress, Jeff VanderMeer, N.K. Jemisin, Kelly Link and Ken Liu. It has been a finalist for the Parsec Awards twice (in 2010 and 2015) and won the Best Podcast - Fictional award at the Academy of Podcasters in 2017.

PodCastle is distributed under a Creative Commons license that allows non-commercial redistribution, requires attribution, and forbids derivatives. The fiction itself remains copyrighted by its respective authors. PodCastle contracts with authors for non-exclusive audio rights and pays professional rates.

## PodCastle Editors

Escape Artists launched the floating PodCastle with Rachel Swirsky as founding editor and Ann Leckie as assistant editor. Swirsky left in 2010 to focus on her own writing. Editors Anna Schwind and Dave Thompson stepped down at the end of March 2015; Leckie continues to serve as associate editor.

Starting in 2015, Rachael K. Jones and Graeme Dunlop shared editing and hosting duties, along with regular guest host M. K. Hobson. In May of 2016, Rachael stepped down as co-editor and Jen R. Albert joined Graeme as the new co-editor. In January 2017, Graeme left the co-editor position and Khaalidah Muhammad-Ali took his place.

As of January 2019, C. L. Clark has stepped in for Khaalidah, and they and Jen helm the flying castle.

* List of PodCastle episodes
Matthew Wayne Selznick

**Matthew Wayne Selznick** is an author, creator, and creative services provider living in Long Beach, California. He's the author of the Parsec Award-nominated "Brave Men Run -- A Novel of the Sovereign Era" as well as his latest novel, *Pilgrimage*, and a number of other titles set in a variety of story worlds.

## Work on Escape Artists

### Writing

#### Escape Pod

* EP117 Reggie vs. Kaiju Storm Chimera Wolf, read by Scott Sigler

### Narrating

#### Escape Pod

* EP065 A Green Thumb, by Tobias S. Buckell
* EP092 The Boy Who Yelled "Dragon!", by Mike Resnick
* EP105 Impossible Dreams (2007 Hugo Award Winner), by Tim Pratt (re-released as Flashback Friday episode EP651)

#### Pseudopod

* PP002 Good Advice, by Richard E. Dansky
* PP030 Seller’s Market, by Joel Arnold
* PP048 The Disciple, by David Barr Kirtley
* PP136 The Eyes of the Crowd, by Bruce Boston

#### PodCastle

* PC016 Magnificent Pigs, by Cat Rambo
* PC061 Captain Fantasy and the Secret Masters, by Tim Pratt
* PC116 Paper Cuts Scissors, by Holly Black
Nathan Ehret

**Nathan Ehret** tends to follow a rigorous daily routine of procrastination. Sometimes, though, a story manages to sneak onto his laptop when he’s looking the other way. He’s fascinated by the unusual and maintains a healthy disdain for the practical. He lives, edits, and teaches English in Vancouver, Canada, and his other stories have been known to end up in places like Perihelion and Electric Spec.

Nathan's story Octavius Boundwas read by Vash Bloodfrost and Jen Rhodes for Pseudopod episode 440.
Marshal Latham

**Marshal Latham** is known around Escape Artists as Swamp and runs the podcast Journey Into...

## Work on Escape Artists

Pseudopod

* PP235 Flash On The Borderlands VIII – Warped Love

PodCastle

* PC200 In the Stacks, by Scott Lynch (read by a full cast)
* PCMini071 We Clever Jacks, by Greg van Eekhout
* PC516b Best of PodCastle #4: In the Stacks, by Scott Lynch (read by a full cast)
Nancy Kress

### Awards

Nebula, Hugo, John W. Campbell Memorial, Sturgeon, Locus, Niels Klim, Asimov's Readers

### On Wikipedia:

Nancy Kress

**Nancy Kress** was born in Buffalo, New York. She went to college at State University of New York at Plattsburgh, earning a degree in elementary education, which she put to use for the next four years teaching the fourth grade.

It was while Nancy was pregnant with her son that she started writing fiction. She had never planned on becoming a writer, but staying at home full-time with infants left her time to experiment. In 1990 she went full-time as an SF writer. The first thing she wrote in this new status was the novella version of “Beggars in Spain.”

Although she began by writing fantasy, Nancy currently writes science fiction, often about genetic engineering. She teaches regularly at summer conferences such as Clarion West and Taos Toolbox. For sixteen years, she was the “Fiction” columnist for WRITER’S DIGEST magazine, and has written three books about writing.

## Work on Escape Artists

Esacpe Pod

* EP075 Nano Comes to Clifford Falls, read by Martha Holloway
* EP081 Margin of Error, read by Christiana Ellis
* EP116 Ej-Es, read by Sheri Mann Stewart
* EP125 End Game, read by Stephen Eley
* EP217 The Kindness of Strangers, read by Kate Baker

PodCastle

* PC034 Clad In Gossamer, read by Paul S. Jenkins
Edd Vick

**Edd Vick**, the son of a pirate, is a recovering Texan now living in Seattle. He is a bookseller whose library is a stuffed three-car garage. His stories have appeared in *Analog, Asimov’s, Year’s Best SF*, and about forty other magazines and anthologies.

## Work on Escape Artists

Cast of Wonders

* CW275 Perdita, Meaning Lost, read by Mary Murphy
Nathaniel Lee

**Nathaniel Lee** (aka Nathan Lee) is one of the busiest members of the genre fiction podcasting community. His bio says he puts words in various orders and intermittently receives money in return. His fiction can be found in dozens of venues online and off, and he serves both as Editor at the Drabblecast and Assistant Editor for Escape Pod. A full bibliography can be found at his writing blog, mirrorshards.org

* Nathan on isfdb.com
* Dribblecast feed: Nathaniel Lee

## Writing on Escape Artists

Escape Pod

* EP348 Nemesis, read by Mat Weller

Pseudopod

* PP222 Terrible Lizard King, read by Steve Anderson
* PP324 Wings, read by John Bell
* PP299 White As A Bedroom Door, read by David Moore
* PP303 Flash on the Borderlands XIII - Responsible Parties: "Always Grinning", read by Rikki LaCoste
* PP372 Silver and Copper, Iron and Ash, read by Dominick Rabrun

PodCastle

* PC132 Flash Fiction Contest Extravaganza: Fetch (1st Place Winner), read by Peter Wood
* PC285 Dragonslayer, read by Elie Hirschman
* PC312 Enginesong (A Rondeau), read by Bob Eccles
* PC336 Why I Bought Satan Two Cokes on the Day I Graduated High School, read by Dave Thompson
* PC354 The Sea of Wives, read by Graeme Dunlop
* PC366 Sticks and Stones, read by Tatiana Gomberg
* PCMini083 Miniature Double Feature! "The Machine That Made Clothes" read by Wilson Fowlie, and "Tired Eyes and Clever Hands" read by LaShawn Wanak

Cast of Wonders

* CW3-5 Tír na nÓg (Part 1, Part 2, Part 3), read by Graeme Dunlop
* CW47 I Kill Monsters, read by Graeme Dunlop
* CW110 The Alchemist’s Children, read by Danie Ware

## Narration on Escape Artists

Escape Pod

* EP380 Punk Voyager by Shaenon Garrity
* EP405 Vestigial Girl by Alex Wilson
* EP455 Keep Your Shape by Robert Sheckley
* EP474 In Coppelius's Toyshop by Connie Willis
* EP514 M.F.ing Retroparty Freestyle, by Rich Larson

PodCastle

* PC288 Flash Fiction Contest Strikes Back!: Wuffle by Chantal Beaulne (1st Place Winner)
* PC315 Stranger vs. the Malevolent Malignancy by Jim C. Hines (read with a Full Cast)
* PC386 Flash Fiction Extravaganza! Ghostly Interludes: “Wet” by John Wiswell
Nick Mamatas

**Nick Mamatas** is the author of several novels, including the Bukowskiesque zombie novel THE LAST WEEKEND and the murder-mystery at a Lovecraft convention title I AM PROVIDENCE. His short fiction has appeared in Best American Mystery Stories, Lovecraft's Monsters, BLACK WINGS II, FUTURE LOVECRAFT, and FUNGI, the journal of revolutionary letters known as SALVAGE, and many other venues. He is also published by Wildside Press – check them out! Follow Nick on Twitter @NMamatas.

## Work on Escape Artists

Escape Pod

* EP223 The Uncanny Valley, read by Kate Baker

Pseudopod

* PP172 The Dude Who Collected Lovecraft, read by Jaron Cohen
* PP332 Willow Tests Well, read by Julie Hoverson
* PP487 Inky, Blinky, Pinky, and Nyarlathotep, read by Cheyenne Wright
* PP562 A Howling Dog, read by full cast: Brian Lieberman, Tad Callin, Scott Campbell, Graeme Dunlop, Moaner T. Lawrence, Dagny Paul, Ben Phillips, Alasdair Stuart

PodCastle

* PCMini036 ToDo List, read by Jake Squid
* PC131 Skatouioannis, read by David O. Englestad
Mignon Fogarty

**Mignon Fogarty** is more widely known as **Grammar Girl**, and her knowledge can be accessed at **Quick And Dirty Tips.com**.

## Work on Escape Artists

Pseudopod

* PP236 Dearest Daughter, by Kate Marshall (read by **Grammar Girl**)
* PP403 Flash on the Borderlands XXI: The Tyranny Of Objects: *File Under*, by Lisamarie Lamb

PodCastle

* PCMini029 Birthday Wish, by Tina Connolly (read by **Grammar Girl**)
Paul E. Martens

**Paul E. Martens** was a frequent early contributor to Escape Pod and Pseudopod. His fiction has been collected in *L. Ron Hubbard presents Writers of the Future 16*, and in the *I, Alien* anthology edited by Mike Resnick.

## Work on Escape Artists

Escape Pod

* EP004 In His Footsteps, read by Stephen Eley
* EP036 Connie, Maybe, read by Wichita Rutherford
* EP048 Soul Food, read by Stephen Eley
* EP060 Creature For Hire, read by Mark Forman
* EP141 The Color of a Brontosaurus, read by Stephen Eley

Pseudopod

* PP006 What Dead People Are Supposed to Do, read by Ben Phillips
Nghi Vo

**Nghi Vo** lives on the shores of Lake Michigan, and her fiction has appeared in Strange Horizons, Expanded Horizons, Crossed Genres and Icarus Magazine. She likes stories about things that fall through the cracks and live on the edges, and she has a deep love for tales of revolution (personal and political), transfiguration and transmutation. She’s a writer by trade, a storyteller by nature, a volunteer by inclination, and a dreamer by design.

## Work on Escape Artists

PodCastle

* PC434 The Ghost Years, read by Tatiana Gomberg