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Peter S. Beagle

**Peter Soyer Beagle** (born April 20, 1939) is an American novelist and screenwriter, especially fantasy fiction. His best-known work is *The Last Unicorn* (1968), a fantasy novel he wrote in his twenties, which Locus subscribers voted the number five "All-Time Best Fantasy Novel" in 1987. During the last twenty-five years he has won several literary awards including a World Fantasy Award for Life Achievement in 2011.

## Work on Escape Artists

PodCastle

* PC001 Come Lady Death, read by Paul S. Jenkins
* PC012 Barrens Dance, read by Stephen Eley
* PCMini011 The Fable of the Moth, read by Stephen Eley
* PCMini013 The Fable of the Ostrich, read by Stephen Eley
* PCMini014 The Fable of the Octopus, read by Stephen Eley
* PC037 Gordon, the SelfMade Cat, read by Barry Deutsch
* PC175 Giant Episode: El Regalo, read by Emily Smith
* PC209 Lila the Werewolf, read by Steve Anderson
* PC214 We Never Talk About My Brother, read by Malcolm Charles
* PCMini072 The Best Worst Monster, read by Wilson Fowlie
* PC309 Underbridge, read by John Michnya
Marty Perrett

**Marty Perrett** has dabbled in the podcasting/narrating/production world for around 10 years now and likes to fumble his way around manipulating audio for best results. An office manager by day, he lives with his partner and their ridiculous cat in London. His local pub knows him by name and starts pouring his drink before he's even stepped in the door.

Marty is also perpetually in the middle of writing a four-part comedy sci-fi novella series called Space Danger, under the name Doug Strider. His belief is that if one day he should finish it then all other prophecies will come to pass (in time for tea, it is believed). So it's like a huge responsibility.

Marty joined Escape Artists in May 2017.
Melinda Brasher

**Melinda Brasher** spends her time writing, traveling, and teaching English as a second language in places like Poland, Mexico, the Czech Republic, and Arizona. She loves the sound of glaciers calving and the smell of old books.

You can find her short fiction in Timeless Tales, Nous, Ellipsis Literature and Art, Intergalactic Medicine Show, and others, or in *Leaving Home*, an e-book collection of some of her favorite published stories and travel essays. For something a little more medieval, read her YA fantasy novel, Far-Knowing.

## Work on Escape Artists

Pseudopod

* PP602 A Learned Man, read by Wilson Fowlie
Orrin Grey

**Orrin Grey** is a writer, editor, amateur film scholar, and monster expert who was born on the night before Halloween. He mostly writes short, spooky stories of the macabre and supernatural, and he watches a lot of movies about the same, and sometimes gets to write about them.

His stories of monsters, ghosts, and sometimes the ghosts of monsters have appeared in dozens of anthologies, including Ellen Datlow’s *Best Horror of the Year*, and he is the author of the collections *Never Bet the Devil & Other Warnings* and *Painted Monsters & Other Strange Beasts*, not to mention various licensed work and a collection of essays on vintage horror cinema, *Monsters from the Vault*.

## Work on Escape Artists

### Pseudopod

* PP155 The Worm that Gnaws, read by Ian Stuart
* PP262 Black Hill, read by Rich Girardi
* PP415 Night’s Foul Bird, read by Cunning Minx
* PP618 Goblins & Little Orphant Annie: "Goblins", read by Leeman Kessler
Lina Rather

**Lina Rather** is a speculative fiction author from Michigan, now living in Washington, D.C.

When she isn’t writing, she likes to cook, go hiking, and collect terrible 90s comic books.

Her work has appeared in a variety of publications, including *Shimmer*, *Flash Fiction Online*, and *Lightspeed*.

## Work on Escape Artists

### PodCastle

* PC522 Extinctions, read by Setsu Uzume
* PC561 Baby Teeth, read by Wilson Fowlie
Jesse Thorn

**Jesse Thorn** is an American public radio show host/creator. He is the host and producer of the radio show and podcast *Bullseye* (formerly *The Sound of Young America*), which is distributed by National Public Radio to 69 public terrestrial radio stations in 29 states and is also broadcast weekly on XM Radio's "XM Public Radio" channel. He is the owner and founder of the Maximum Fun podcast network, where he hosts the podcasts Judge John Hodgman and Jordan, Jesse, Go!. In addition to his work in radio and podcasts, Jesse Thorn also hosts the television program *The Grid*, which formerly aired on IFC, and runs a blog and web video series devoted to men's fashion called *Put This On*.

## Work on Escape Artists

Escape Pod

* EP037 Craphound, by Cory Doctorow
Maui Threv

**Maui Threv** was born in the swamps of south Georgia where he was orphaned as a child by a pack of wild dawgs. He was adopted by a family of gators who named him Maui Threv which in their language means mechanical frog music. He was taught the ways of swamp music and the moog synthesizer by a razorback and a panther. His own music has been featured over in episodes of Pseudopod. He provided music for the second episode ever released across the PseudoPod feed: **Waiting up for Father**. He also is responsible for the outro music for the Lavie Tidhar story **Set Down This**. He has expanded his sonic territory across all 100,000 watts of WREK in Atlanta where you can listen to the Mobius every Wednesday night. It is available to stream via the internet as well, and Threv never stops in the middle of a hoedown.

## Work on Escape Artists

Pseudopod

* PP395 Fishhead, by Irvin S. Cobb
* PP552 The All or Nothing Days, by Gus Moreno
* PP563 Flash on the Borderlands XXXIX: Teratology - *Shed Skin*, by Getty Hesse
* PP579 All My Nighmares Are Named Heather, by Mário Coelho

PodCastle

* PC429 Wolfy Things, by Erin Roberts
Laura Pearlman

**Laura Pearlman** lives in California with two cats and no unicorns. Her stories have appeared in *Shimmer*, *Flash Fiction Online*, *Daily Science Fiction*, the *Unidentified Funny Objects 4* anthology, and *Mothership Zeta*.

She has a blog called *Unlikely Explanations* and a tumblr devoted to things her cats have dropped in their water bowl. She should probably get out more.

## Work on Escape Artists

### Writing

#### Escape Pod

* EP650 Some Things I Probably Should Have Mentioned Earlier, read by **Laura Pearlman**

#### Cast of Wonders

* CW251 Little Wonders 12 - The Unexpected: “Why I Hate Zombie Unicorns”, read by Alexis Goble

### Narration

#### Escape Pod

* EP650 Some Things I Probably Should Have Mentioned Earlier, by **Laura Pearlman**
Maria Haskins

**Maria Haskins** is a Swedish-Canadian writer and translator. She writes speculative fiction and poetry, and debuted as a writer in Sweden in the far-off era known as the 1980s. Since 1992 she has lived in Canada, and is currently located just outside Vancouver with a husband, two kids, and a very large black dog.
Her most recently published book is *Dark Flash*, a collection of flash fiction stories. Her stories have appeared in, or will be appearing in, *Flash Fiction Online*, *Shimmer*, *Gamut*, *Capricious*, and elsewhere.

## Work on Escape Artists

### Pseudopod

* PP624 Flash on the Borderlands XLV: Personal Narratives - “Ten Things I Didn't Do” read by Rebecca Wei Hsieh

### Cast of Wonders

* CW273 Banned Books Week: The Wayfinder and His Sister, read by Leigh Wallace & Christiana Ellis
* CW325 Banned Books Week: The Librarian read by Katherine Inskip (re-released as CW346, a 2018 Staff Pick)
* CW333 Tunguska, 1987, read by Ville Meriläinen
L. S. Johnson

**L. S. Johnson** lives in Northern California, where she feeds her cats by writing book indexes. She is the author of the gothic novellas Harkworth Hall and Leviathan. Her first collection, Vacui Magia: Stories, was a finalist for the World Fantasy Award. Her novel remains vexedly in progress.

## Work on Escape Artists

PodCastle

* PC521 We Are Sirens, read by Abra Staffin-Wiebe
* PC528 Properties of Obligate Pearls, read by Dagny Paul
Lavie Tidhar

**Lavie Tidhar** is the World Fantasy and British Fantasy Award winning author of *Osama*, *The Violent Century* and many other novels, novellas and short fiction. His new novel, *A Man Lies Dreaming*, was published by Hodder in the UK in October. His comics mini-series ADLER came out from Titan Comics at the end of 2014.

## Work on Escape Artists

Escape Pod

* EP163 Revolution Time, read by Stephen Eley
* EP225 A Hard Rain at the Fortean Café, read by Sarah Tolbert
* EP234 The Secret Protocols of the Elders of Zion, read by Stephen Eley
* EP294 The Night Train, read by Jean Hilde-Fulghum
* EP309 The Insurance Agent, read by Christian Brady
* EP341 Aphrodisia, read by Alasdair Stuart

Pseudopod

* PP443 Watchers, read by Robert Gonyo
* PP173 Bophuthatswana, read by Elan Ressel
* PP197 Set Down This, read by Elan Ressel
* PP104 The Book in the Earth, read by Ralph Walters

PodCastle

* PC203 Buried Eyes, read by Graeme Dunlop
* PC267 Western Chow Mein Red Dawn, read by Bob Eccles
* PCMini074 The Book, read by John Michnya
* PC304 Titanic!, read by Ian Stuart
Ryan Schapals

**Ryan Schapals** is a storyteller based in Los Angeles, who grew up in Chicago. He loves rolling dice to determine terrible fictional choices. At Hyper RPG he turns tabletop roleplaying games into performance-based experiences on Twitch. Right now he's building the world of Amaurea's Dawn with Open Legend RPG, which will be out this summer 2017. Check out the latest updates and join the Open Legend community at openlegendrpg.com.

## Work on Escape Artists

Cast of Wonders

* CW264 Little Wonders 14 - Lyrical Beauty: *The Sherd*, read by Stephen J. Carrington
Laura Lam

**Laura**, geek, author, Californian can be found on twitter and she blogs.

Laura Lam was born in the late eighties and raised near San Francisco, California, by two former Haight-Ashbury hippies. Both of them encouraged her to finger-paint to her heart’s desire, colour outside the lines, and consider the library a second home. This led to an overabundance of daydreams.

After studying literature and creative writing at university, she relocated to Scotland to be with her husband, a boy she met online when they were teenagers and he insulted her taste in books and she insulted his right back. She almost blocked him but is glad she didn’t. She is now a dual citizen, but at times she misses the sunshine.

While working a variety of jobs from filing and photocopying endlessly at a law firm to library assistant to corporate librarian, she began writing in earnest. Her first book, *Pantomime*, the first book in the Micah Grey series, was released in 2013, which was a Scottish Book Trust Teen Book of the Month, won the Bisexual Book Award, was listed a Top Ten Title for the American Library Association List, and was nominated for several other awards. Robin Hobb says “*Pantomime* by Laura Lam took me into a detailed and exotic world, peopled by characters that I’d love to be friends with . . . and some I’d never want to cross paths with.” The sequel, *Shadowplay*, followed in 2014, as well as several the *Vestigial Tales*, self-published short stories and novellas set in the same world. The third book in the series, *Masquerade*, will follow in 2017.

Her newest book is *False Hearts*, a near-future thriller released in June 2016 by Tor/Macmillan and in three other languages. Peter F. Hamilton calls *False Hearts* “a strong debut from someone who’s clearly got what it takes.” Another thriller, *Shattered Minds*, will be released in 2017.

She is still hiding from sunshine in Scotland and writing more stories.

Laura has had one story featured on Pseudopod:

PP461 Flash On The Borderlands XXVIII - Britshock II: "The Ghost of Gold and Grey" read by Tatiana Gomberg
Ramsey Campbell

**Ramsey Campbell** is a British writer considered by a number of critics to be one of the great masters of horror fiction. T. E. D. Klein has written that “Campbell reigns supreme in the field today,” while S. T. Joshi has said that “future generations will regard him as the leading horror writer of our generation, every bit the equal of Lovecraft or Blackwood.”

Says Campbell: “It can be argued that my timidity or at least my restraint is why I remain. I’ve never gone for broke and tried to write the most horrifying tale I can concoct, because I don’t quite see the point. To quote the critic David Aylward, as I very often do: ‘writers [of horror fiction], who used to strive for awe and achieve fear, now strive for fear and achieve only disgust’ – and it seems to me that too much straining for terror is wont to produce nothing more than a disgusting dump. If I can’t approach awe, I’d rather try for the other quality I value most in dark fiction, not exclusively in generic horror – a lingering disquiet. I may have felt that way ever since I first encountered Herman Melville’s ‘Bartleby’ in the 1957 anthology BEST HORROR STORIES and didn’t feel cheated out of any of the pocket money I’d saved up to buy the book. Soon I found the quality in work such as the novels of Thomas Hinde and Samuel Beckett, not to mention films such as Last Year in Marienbad and Los Olvidados. I see no reason why fiction packaged as horror can’t achieve these effects of disturbance and dislocation. One definition of good art is that it makes you look again at things you’ve taken for granted, and that can certainly be true of horror.”

## Work on Escape Artists

Pseudopod

* PP525 Cold Print, read by Paul S. Jenkins
* PP550 Again, read by Ant Bacon
Adam Knight

**Adam Knight** is a speculative fiction author and public school teacher in northern New Jersey. He has been published in a number of magazines and anthologies, and his first novel, a dystopian take on the education system titled “At The Trough,” is due out from NineStar Press in 2019.

## Work on Escape Artists

### Escape Pod

* EP660 Hoping for Red, read by Tina Connolly
Nicholas Conley

**Nicholas Conley**’s passion for storytelling began at an early age, prompted by a love of science fiction novels, comic books and horror movies. His science fiction thriller novel PALE HIGHWAY (available now from Red Adept Publishing) is influenced by his experience working with Alzheimer’s patients in a nursing home, a subject that he has also written about for publications such as Vox and Alzheimers.net. PALE HIGHWAY is the story of Gabriel Schist, a genius Nobel Prize winner plagued by Alzheimer’s, who must find a cure for a terrifying new virus before his mind declines past the point of no return. When not busy writing, Nicholas resides in New Hampshire and spends his time reading, traveling to new places, and indulging in a lifelong coffee habit.

## Work on Escape Artists

Pseudopod

* PP513 Flash on the Borderlands XXXIV: Interstices - *Subcutaneous*, read by Rock Manor
M.K. Hutchins

**Megan K. Hutchins** is the author of the YA fantasy novel Drift, a Junior Library Guild Selection and a VOYA Top Shelf Honoree. Her short fiction has appeared in IGMS and Daily Science Fiction. She studied archaeology at BYU, giving her the opportunity to compile ancient Maya genealogies, excavate in Belize, and work as a faunal analyst.

## Work on Escape Artists

PodCastle

* PC374 Poet-Scholars of the Necropolis, read by Julia Rios
* PC422 Golden Chaos, read by Heath Miller
* PC471 The Chaos Village - Pt 1, read by Heath Miller
* PC472 The Chaos Village - Pt 2, read by Heath Miller

Cast of Wonders

* CW149 Bricks and Sunlight, read by Dani Daly
* CW301 Ana's Asteroid, read by Alethea Kontis
Robert Gonyo

**Robert A. K. Gonyo** is a theatre director, actor, voiceover artist, and musician residing in Queens, New York, and the producer and host of the “Go See a Show!” podcast, which you can find on iTunes. Horror fans in New York City can see him perform weekly in End Times Productions like “The Ded Sullivan Show,” Saturday nights at Times Scare — visit robertgonyo.com/ for more information, and discounted tickets.

## Work on Escape Artists

Escape Pod

* EP602 Trash Talk, by Holly Schofield

Pseudopod

* PP394 Summer Girls, by Caspian Gray
* PP443 Watchers, by Lavie Tidhar
Naomi Kritzer

**Naomi Kritzer** has been writing science fiction and fantasy for twenty years. Her short story “Cat Pictures Please” won the 2016 Hugo and Locus Awards and was nominated for the Nebula Award. A collection of her short stories was released in 2017, and she is currently working on a YA novel for Tor Books. She lives in St. Paul, Minnesota with her spouse, two kids, and four cats. The number of cats is subject to change without notice.

## Work on Escape Artists

Escape Pod

* EP613 Cat Pictures, Please, read by Miriam Krause
Michael Glyde

**M. Glyde** recently moved 1813 miles from Pittsburgh, PA to El Paso, TX, where he writes, works, and attends grad school. His fiction has appeared in *See the Elephant*. You can find him on Twitter @michaelglyde or on his website and blog mglyde.com.

## Work on Escape Artists

Escape Pod

* EP542 The Hungers of Refugees, read by Joe Williams
Laura Davy

**Laura Davy** lives in California with her husband and two cats. She is a Viable Paradise graduate and has been previously published in Apex Magazine, Plasma Frequency Magazine, and Stupefying Stories Showcase. When she’s not writing she’s chasing her cats around the house. They tend to ignore her.

Laura's story *Shopping for the Perfect Battle Mount* placed 2nd in Escape Pod's Flash Fiction Contest IV.

## Work on Escape Artists

Escape Pod

* EP533 2016 Flash Fiction Contest Winners: *Shopping for the Perfect Battle Mount* read by Nicholas Camm
Kenneth Yu

**Kenneth Yu** is a writer from the Philippines. His work has seen print in his country’s various publications, including the Philippine ezines **Usok** and **Best Of Philippine Speculative Fiction 2009**. One of his stories also placed 3rd in the Neil Gaiman-sponsored 3rd **Philippine Graphic Fiction Awards** in early 2010. Elsewhere, his stories have been accepted by **Innsmouth Free Press**, **The Town Drunk** and **AlienSkin**.
Mothership Zeta

*****Mothership Zeta***** is the new digital magazine from Escape Artists Inc, covering the best from our podcasts as well as exciting new stuff.

Edited by Mur Lafferty with assistance from Sunil Patel and Karen Bovenmyer , Mothership Zeta is a quarterly website/ezine that will feature fiction and nonfiction of interest to the speculative fiction-loving world. We’ll be featuring reprints from our sister podcasts, new fiction, and some really interesting stuff we’re keeping under our hats for now!

* Preview Issue 0 now!

You can subscribe to the magazine at Weightless Books, or buy individual issues for a mere $2.99 at the following locations:

* Direct from Escape Artists via Payhip (epub & mobi)
* Amazon
* Smashwords
* Weightless Books

Issue 1 - ***Table of Contents:***

* Editorial
* **Fiction**: “The Customer Is Always Right” by Anna Salonen
* **Fiction**: “Q&A: An AI Love Story” by Fade Manley
* **Nonfiction**: “How I Learned to Stop Worrying and Love Dwarf Planets” by Pamela L. Gay
* **Fiction**: “Panic Twice, Spin” by Malon Edwards
* **Nonfiction**: “Video Game Review: Why We Love Playing *Flight Rising*” by Karen Bovenmyer, Kri Dontje, and Mur Lafferty
* **Reprint**: “Imma Gonna Finish You Off” by Marina J. Lostetter
* **Fiction**: “Sleeping with Spirits” by Bonnie Jo Stufflebeam
* **Nonfiction**: “The Story Doctor Is (In)” by James Patrick Kelly
* **Nonfiction**: “Series Review: Elizabeth Peters’ Amelia Peabody, Egyptologist” by Karen Bovenmyer
* **Fiction**: “Bargain” by Sarah Gailey
* **Fiction**: “Places” by Suyi Davies Okungbowa
* **Nonfiction**: “Favorite 2014-2015 Graphic Novels: *Nimona*, *Finder: Third World*, *Ms. Marvel, Volume 1: No Normal*, *Trees* and the upcoming *Star Wars, Volume 1: Skywalker Strikes* and *Lady Killer*” by Adam Gallardo
* **Fiction**: “Tales of a Fourth Grade Shoggoth” by Kevin Wetmore
* **Nonfiction**: “Movie Review: *Turbo Kid*: Why this BMX Blood Sparkle Unicorn Apocalypse will Blow your Mind” by Rachael Acks
* **Nonfiction**: “Book Review: Rainbow Rowell’s *Fangirl*” by Karen Bovenmyer
* **Nonfiction**: “Book Review: M. R. Carey’s *The Girl with All the Gifts*” by Karen Bovenmyer
* **Fiction**: “The Insect Forest” by Paul DesCombaz
Lisa L. Hannett

**Lisa L. Hannett** has had over 65 short stories appear in venues including Clarkesworld, Fantasy, Weird Tales, Apex, the Year’s Best Australian Fantasy and Horror, and Imaginarium: Best Canadian Speculative Writing. She has won four Aurealis Awards, including Best Collection for her first book, Bluegrass Symphony, which was also nominated for a World Fantasy Award. Her first novel, Lament for the Afterlife, was published in 2015.

## Work on Escape Artists

PodCastle

* PC441 A Shot of Salt Water (Aurealis Month), read by Cian Mac Mahon
Mark Samuels

**MARK SAMUELS** (born 1967) is the author of four short story collections **THE WHITE HANDS AND OTHER WEIRD TALES** (Tartarus Press 2003), **BLACK ALTARS** (Rainfall Books 2003), **GLYPHOTECH & OTHER MACABRE PROCESSES**(PS Publishing 2008) and **THE MAN WHO COLLECTED MACHEN & OTHER STORIES** (Ex Occidente 2010 and Chomu Press 2011) as well as the short novel **THE FACE OF TWILIGHT** (PS Publishing 2006). His tales have appeared in both **THE MAMMOTH BOOK OF BEST NEW HORROR** and **THE YEAR’S BEST FANTASY & HORROR**. He has a new collection forthcoming from **Egaeus Press** in 2014 and has been described by **Ramsey Campbell** as “the British**Thomas Ligotti**”: A description he is at odds with, since he shares few, if any, of Ligotti’s aims either as a contemporary philosopher or writer of weird fiction. He is also literary executor for the late **Edmund Bertrand**. “How I came to be Bertrand’s literary executor is a convoluted affair and too long to go into here,” explains Samuels. “In any case, it’s certainly ironic, given that Bertrand (an American citizen, but of French ancestry, as his name suggests) was a staunch Anglophobe. Bertrand was born in Memphis, sometime during 1957, and died in a mysterious hotel fire whilst attending a convention in England in 2007. His stories chart the far reaches of madness, and were never collected together in a single volume. His main influences were European authors such as **Stefan Grabinski**, **Roger Gilbert-Lecomte**, **Dino Buzzati** and **Jean Lorrain**.”
Leigh Wallace

**Leigh Wallace** is an Ottawa writer, artist and narrator who works for the Canadian federal government. Her fiction is available in Tesseracts 19, PodCastle and Urban Fantasist. Her art can be found at Tea Princess Chronicles and in the Sunvault anthology, and she’s narrated previously for Glittership. She is a graduate of the 2013 Viable Paradise workshop.

## Work on Escape Artists

Writing

PodCastle

* PC436 Flash Fiction Extravaganza! Elements *Dragon Fancy*, read by Kim Rogers

Narration

Cast of Wonders

* CW273 Banned Books Week: The Wayfinder and His Sister, by Maria Haskins; read by **Leigh Wallace** & Christiana Ellis
Jack Murphy

**Jack Murphy** had just turned 18 when he made his first professional sale to Cast of Wonders. Congratulations, Jack! We hope to see more submissions from him in the future.

Jack says he’s not very good at biographies, so instead he gave us three individual words: “Transient, Pantheon, Objuration”.

## Work on Escape Artists

Cast of Wonders

* CW093 - Little Wonders II - Empires of the Red Dawn, read by Adam Black
Larissa Thompson

**Larissa Thompson** is an actor and filmmaker living and working in Vancouver, BC (Canada).

She’s a big fan of make-believe and will find any excuse possible to dress up in costume.

No stranger to independent productions – or being interviewed on video or audio formats – she has a passion for sharing stories she loves with the world.

She is most recognized for her work on The Centropic Oracle, a science fiction and fantasy short story audio magazine available on YouTube, The Sojourn, an original science fiction audio drama & motion comic, and is the co-founder of the YouTube channel The Templin Institute.

## Work on Escape Artists

### Pseudopod

* PP634 Flash on the Borderlands XLVI: The Accursed and the Monstrous - “Viens Jouer Avec Moi”, by Lisa Baldinelli

### Cast of Wonders

* CW281 Little Wonders 16 - Siblings in Space: *Outburst*, by B. Morris Allen
Nadia Niaz

**Nadia Niaz** is a writer, academic, language nerd, creative writing teacher and third culture kid who now lives in Melbourne, Australia. She divides what little downtime she has between cooking, knitting, painting, dancing, powerlifting and, now, narrating stories for PodCastle.

## Work on Escape Artists

Escape Pod

* EP612 The Sixes, the Wisdom, and the Wasp, by E. J. Delaney

PodCastle

* PC412 For Honor, For Waste, by Setsu Uzume
* PC431 La Héron, by Charlotte Ashley
* PC436 Flash Fiction Extravaganza! Elements: *Gaps of Joy, and a Knot for Love,* by S.B. Divya
* PC515 Artemis Rising 4 - Propagating Peonies, by Suzan Palumbo
* PC526 When Shadow Confronts Sun, by Farah Naz Rishi

Cast of Wonders

* CW258 Victory Music, by Daniel José Older
* CW296 Artemis Rising 4 – Canary’s Refuge, by Wendy Nikel
Rish Outfield

**Rish Outfield** is a writer, voice actor, and audiobook narrator. He got his start co-hosting The Dunesteef Audio Fiction Magazine and That Gets My Goat podcasts, where he and Big Anklevich attempt to waste time entertainingly. He also features his own stories on the Rish Outcast podcast. He once got a job because of his Sean Connery impersonation . . . but has lost two due to his Samuel L. Jackson impression.

## Work on Escape Artists

Pseudopod

* PP258 The Stink of Animosity by Rob E. Boley
* PP308 The Crawlspace by Russell Bradbury-Carlin
* PP400 The Screwfly Solution by James Tiptree, Jr. (as part of a Full Cast!)
* PP434 Drink to Me Only with Labyrinthine Eyes by Thomas Ligotti
* PP501 Flash on the Borderlands XXXII: Punishments: *Rat King*, by Lia Swope Mitchell
* PP509 Night Games, by Aeryn Rudel
* PP592 Free Balloons For All Good Children, by Dirck de Lint

PodCastle

* PCMini50 Mario’s Three Lives by Matt Bell
* PC136 The Christmas Mummy by Heather Shaw and Tim Pratt
* PC Special: The Alphabet Quartet (A Primer) - *L is for Luminous* by Heather Shaw
* PC190 A Window, Clear as a Mirror by Ferret Steinmetz
* PC315 Stranger vs. the Malevolent Malignancy by Jim C. Hines (as part of a Full Cast!)
* PC501 The Christmas Abomination from Beyond the Back of the Stars, by Heather Shaw & Tim Pratt

Cast of Wonders

* CW29 Eggs Under Moon by Elizabeth Barette (one of three recitations of the poem)
* CW69 Cosmetic Procedures by Desmond Warzel
* CW91 Open 28 Hours by Darin Ramsey
* CW121 Little Wonders 5 – Trope Twists - *Bigfeet* by Michael Strickland, read with Big Anklevich
* CW253 Single Parent, by Sarah Gailey
Rikki LaCoste

**Rikki LaCoste** wears a variety of hats, caps, berets, and on occasion, a bonnet or sombrero. He’s narrated for Pseudopod and Starship Sofa as well as Cast of Wonders.

He was also the creator and co-host of a quirky yet provocative podcast called Kakophonos Internet Radio – which is presently in cryogenic suspension – but you can listen to a collection of memorable clips from the show.

Panthea is his musical collection of original compositions. He is also a writer, voice artist, an environmental activist, having worked for Greenpeace Canada, the Communications Steward for Alfheim Valley Eco Resort, he’s an Elutriation Therapist, a Hermetic Magician, a piano teacher to kids, and an artist of any medium he can get his hands on, including audio engineering. Hats hats hats.

**Isis LaCoste** is the daughter of Rikki. Like her father, Isis is an aspiring young actress, a prolific artist and musician who also has a *Pseudopod* narration to her credit. In 2014 Isis won the award for Dramatic Excellence in her school.

## Work on Escape Artists

### Pseudopod

* PP303 Flash On The Borderlands XIII - Responsible Parties: *Always Grinning* by Nathaniel Lee
* PP328 The Suicide Witch, by Vylar Kaftan

### Cast of Wonders

* CW164 Amicae Aeternum, by Ellen Klages (read with Isis LaCoste and Fiona “Princess Scientist” Van Verth)
Makenzi Newman

**Makenzi Newman** is a high school student living in Louisiana.

“The Final Strand”, on Cast of Wonders, is her first professional publication.

## Work on Escape Artists

Author:

Cast of Wonders

* CW293 The Final Strand, read by Alexis Goble

Narrator:

Pseudopod

* PP541 Tessa Told Me, by Rob Kotecki

Cast of Wonders

* CW257 Little Wonders 13 - Death: *Always There*, by David Steffen
Lynne M. MacLean

**Lynne M. MacLean** is a writer and health research consultant from Ottawa, Canada. Her short fiction and poetry have been published in *Stupefying Stories*, *On Spec Magazine*, *Tesseracts Fifteen*, and *Horrific History*, among others.

Previously, she also lived and worked as a mental health practitioner in Canada’s prairies and Northwest Territories, where much of her fiction is set.

## Work on Escape Artists

### PodCastle

* PC540 Flash Fiction Extravaganza! The Three Phases of Equinox: “There is a Season”, read by Khaalidah Muhammad-Ali
Marc Bailey

**Marc Bailey** and Heather Welliver have been a part of the podcasting community since 2006 as voice actors and narrators. They are in the process of rebooting their podcast Grailwolf’s Geek Life with a new name, focused on positive reviews of all things geeky along with thoughtful essays on the continuing The Geek Renaissance.

## Work on Escape Artists

Pseudopod

* PP511 Flash on the Borderlands XXXIII: Corpus *Hide*, by Annie Neugebauer
Rick Kennett

**Rick Kennett** lives in Melbourne, Australia where his day job is in the transport industry. His stories have appeared in Andromeda Spaceways, Aurealis, Weird Tales, the Ghosts & Scholars Book of Shadows anthologies and several podcasts including Pseudopod and Dunesteef. His novel The Devil and the Deep Blue Sea was published by Cooperative Press in 2013 and is available on Amazon.

In addition to a slew of Australian publishing awards for his horror fiction, Rick has two Parsec Awards to his credit, including Cast of Wonders episode *Now Cydonia* which won in the short story category in 2014. And in a lovely coincidence, he’s recently become the podcast correspondent for the magazine *Ghosts & Scholars*, which specializes in the antiquarian ghost stories of author M. R. James.

## Work on Escape Artists

### Pseudopod

* PP272 The Dark And What It Said, read by Graeme Dunlop

### Cast of Wonders

* CW71 Now Cydonia, read by Marguerite Kenner
	+ Repeated as CW114, as a Staff Pick for 2013
* CW89 The Carmel B Crazies, read by Marguerite Kenner
* CW103 The View from Stickney Crater, read by Marguerite Kenner
* CW173 Timelines, read by Marguerite Kenner
* CW146, 147 “Thirty Minutes for New Hell”, read by Marguerite Kenner
	+ Part 1, Part 2
* CW235 Isle of the Dancing Dead, read by Barry Haworth
* CW314-320 *Presumed Dead*, read by Marguerite Kenner
	+ Part 1, Part 2, Part 3, Part 4, Part 5, Part 6, Part 7
Jason Kimble

**Jason Kimble** is a science fiction writer who began publishing in 2015. To borrow from his blog's About section:

"I'm fascinated by how people put amazingness together. Or awfulness (Let’s not pretend schadenfreude doesn’t happen). What field’s doing the assembly changes quite frequently. Sometimes I even try putting together some of it myself. I refuse to comment on which end of the A to A spectrum that falls on.

"In slightly drier terms: I left the tornadoes of Michigan for the hurricanes of Florida, because spinning air is better when it’s warm. I live there with my *finally-legal* husband. My most recent work appears or is forthcoming in venues such as *Betwixt* magazine, The Sockdolager, and Escape Pod."

## Work on Escape Artists

Escape Pod

* EP509 Broken, read by Mat Weller

Cast of Wonders

* CW250 Blood and Water, read by Paul Cram
	+ CW289 Staff Pick 2017: Blood and Water
* CW291 If Only Kissing Made It So, read by Max Gladstone
Michael Gray Baughan

**MICHAEL GRAY BAUGHAN** hails from Philadelphia, dwells in Richmond, and writes speculative fiction from somewhere else. At the moment, that somewhere else is a rock cut tomb in the Phrygian Highlands of ancient Anatolia (modern day Turkey), where he is spending a year subsisting on nothing but coffee and köfte while whittling away at his first novel. During full moons and the occasional equinox, he emerges from his writing cave to curate a collection of nonfictional oddities and curiosities at **WonderCabinet.net**.

Michael's story The Ana Log was read by Jonathan Danz for Pseudopod episode 423.
Richard Harland

**Richard Harland** was born in England but now lives in Australia, sixty miles south of Sydney between the green Illawarra escarpment and a string of golden beaches. He has been a folk-rock musician, a university lecturer and a poet who once did a poetry reading at the Sydney Opera House. He has won six Aurealis Awards (Australia’s nearest equivalent to the Nebulas) for his horror and fantasy novels and his short stories; also the prestigious Tam Tam Je Bouquine Award for “Worldshaker” in France.

## Work on Escape Artists

Pseudopod

* PP539 The Fear, read by Graeme Dunlop
Rick Stringer

**Rick Stringer** is from Variant Frequencies, a monthly podcast of original fiction. Stories blending gothic horror with space adventure, dark fantasy with sci-fi, recalling the reality-bending vibes of The Twilight Zone, and offering something wholly unique that fits in between and outside. Their podcasts are fully produced, including talented voice actors and original music scores. Subscription is free. Entertainment and escapism are guaranteed.

## Work on Escape Artists

Pseudopod

* PP042 Full Moon Over 1600, by Christopher Michael Cummings
* PP107 Front Row Seats, by Scott William Carter
* PP228 Flash On The Borderlands VII – Tableaux & Displays: *Hunting*, by Kirsty Logan
Nathalie Cerin

**Nathalie Cerin** is a Philadelphia based singer-songwriter, teaching artist and blogger originally from Port-au-Prince, Haiti. She likes to think of herself as the class clown all grown up. Nathalie has a deep passion for Haiti and the arts, especially wherever these two topics converge. She is the editor for Woy Magazine (woymagazine.com).

## Work on Escape Artists

PodCastle

* PC446 The Rock In the Water, by Thoriya Dyer; read by **Nathalie Cerin** & Loulou Szal
Miriam Krause

**Miriam Krause** has degrees in geology, speech-language pathology, and speech-language-hearing sciences, but currently works for a chemistry research center. As part of her day job, she gets to produce and host Sustainable Nano, a podcast about nanotechnology, sustainability, and life in science. She has lived in Samoa, Washington, D.C., Ohio, and California, but has now settled back in her hometown of Minneapolis.

## Work on Escape Artists

Escape Pod

* EP613 Cat Pictures, Please, by Naomi Kritzer
Rob Kotecki

**Rob Kotecki** is an award-winning writer and filmmaker. His recent horror short, TILLY played at a number of major film festivals and won the Audience Award at the Brooklyn Horror Fest this past year. Later this year, Rob will publish UNCLE GRIMM’S GRAVEYARD RHYMES, a series of sick and twisted nursery rhymes for adults. He can be found on Medium and on Twitter, @arthousepunch. Feel free to visit his production company at Volatile Media.

## Work on Escape Artists

Pseudopod

* PP541 Tessa Told Me, read by Makenzi Newman
Melion Traverse

**Melion Traverse** lives with one spouse, two dogs and an acceptable amount of chaos. Melion’s works have appeared in, or are forthcoming in, Fantasy Scroll Magazine, Deep Magic, Havok, T. Gene Davis’s Speculative Blog, and Cosmic Roots and Eldritch Shores. When not writing, Melion plays with swords, practices martial arts, and blogs haphazardly.

## Work on Escape Artists

Cast of Wonders

* CW300 The Death Knight, the Dragon and the Damsel, read by Dani Daly, Graeme Dunlop, Katherine Inskip and Cheyenne Wright
Robin McLeavy

**Robin McLeavy** is an actress best known for her work on AMC’s hit Western series *Hell On Wheels*. On the show she played the character of Eva, who was based on a real woman who was captured by Native Americans and given a chin tattoo to mark her as one of their own. On the show Eva starts as a prostitute who then forms a relationship with Elam, a freed slave, played by Common. By the end of the series Eva is running a brothel, and although relatively wealthy and independent, she eventually realizes that her true home is out in the wild with her horse, who she names Maat Kwissa Atev, meaning FREE SPIRIT in Mohave.Originally from Australia, Robin trained at the National Institute of Dramatic Art, and one of her career highlights has been performing at the Brooklyn Academy of Music in a production of A Streetcar Named Desire starring as Stella opposite Cate Blanchett as Blanche and Joel Edgerton as Stanley, and directed by the legendary Liv Ullmann.Robin lives in Los Angeles, and is currently writing and producing a feature film about her late friend and Aussie rock’n’roll icon, Chrissy Amphlett of the DIVINYLS.

## Work on Escape Artists

PodCastle

* PC514 Artemis Rising 4 - My Heart the Bullet in the Chamber, by Stephanie Charette
Rajan Khanna

**Rajan Khanna** is an author, blogger, reviewer and narrator.

His first novel, *Falling Sky*, a post-apocalyptic adventure with airships, was released in October 2014 followed by a sequel, *Rising Tide*, in October 2015. His short fiction has appeared in Lightspeed Magazine, Beneath Ceaseless Skies, and several anthologies. His articles and reviews have appeared at Tor.com and LitReactor.com and his podcast narrations can be heard at Podcastle, Escape Pod, PseudoPod, Beneath Ceaseless Skies and Lightspeed Magazine.

Rajan lives in New York where he’s a member of the Altered Fluid writing group.

## Work on Escape Artists

Writing

Escape Pod

* EP363 Flowing Shapes, read by Josh Roseman

Pseudopod

* PP305 Pumpkinhead, read by The Word Whore

PodCastle

* PC172 Doors, read by David O. Engelstad

Narration

Escape Pod

* EP311 The Faithful Soldier, Prompted, by Saladin Ahmed
* EP333 Asteroid Monte, by Craig DeLancey
* EP345 The Paper Menagerie (2012 Hugo Award winner), by Ken Liu
* EP562 Meltwater, by Benjamin C. Kinney

Pseudopod

* PP240 Songs for Dead Hearts, by Mandana Faridani

PodCastle

* PC014 The Grand Cheat, by Hilary Moon Murphy
* PC027 Red Riding-Hood’s Child, by N. K. Jemisin
* PC045 The Annals of EelinOk, by Jeffrey Ford
* PC054 The Dreaming Wind, by Jeffrey Ford; read with Paul Tevis
* PC085 Giant Episode: The Narcomancer, by N.K. Jemisin
* PC102 Hooves and the Hovel of Abdel Jameela, by Saladin Ahmed
* PC155 Tending the Mori Birds, by Caroline M. Yoachim
* PC165 The Paper Menagerie, by Ken Liu
* PC223 Five Bullets on the Banks of the Sadji, by Keffy R.M. Kehrli
* PC246 Where Virtue Lives, by Saladin Ahmed
* PC313 This is a Ghost Story, by Keffy R.M. Kehrli
* PC346 The Pilgrim and the Angel, by E. Lily Yu
* PC398 Flower Of Flowers, Bird Of Birds, by Alicia Cole
* PC516e Best of PodCastle #1: The Paper Menagerie, by Ken Liu
Michael Wehunt

**Michael Wehunt** grew up in North Georgia, close enough to the Appalachians to feel them but not quite easily see them. There were woods, and woodsmoke, and warmth. He did not make it far when he left, falling sixty miles south to the lost city of Atlanta, where he wishes he had more time to read.

His debut story collection, Greener Pastures, was shortlisted for the IAFA Crawford Award, nominated for a Shirley Jackson Award, and was recently translated into Spanish. His recently-completed debut novel, *The Lighted Hand* will soon be crawling out of the woods into the light.

## Work on Escape Artists

### Pseudopod

* PP623 Greener Pastures, read by Bill Ruhsam
Madeline Alvey

**Madeline Alvey** lives in Lexington, Kentucky and is a full-time student at the University of Kentucky, seeking degrees in both Physics and English, and minoring in Creative Writing. She has no idea what she’d like to do when she graduates, though luckily she has plenty of time. When she has it, she splits her free time between crafting; cooking; gardening; writing science fiction, fantasy, and satire; and doting on her four rats.

## Work on Escape Artists

Escape Pod

* EP566 Artemis Rising 3 - Honey and Bone, read by Tina Connolly
Peter Adrian Behravesh

**Peter Adrian Behravesh** is an editorial assistant at IDW Publishing, the editor-in-chief of the Stonecoast Review, and a creative writing MFA candidate at the University of Southern Maine. He is an associate editor for Escape Pod and the audio producer for PodCastle.

Peter is also the founder of Lit & Lore Editorial, which provides freelance editorial services to small presses, publishers, and writers of all genres and skill levels.

He writes space fantasy stories inspired by Safavid-era Iran and songs about the technoapocalypse.

When he isn’t writing or editing, you’ll most likely find Peter hurtling down a mountain, sipping English Breakfast, and brushing up on his Farsi (though not all at once, usually).

You can find his sporadic ramblings at peteradrianbehravesh.com and on Twitter @pabehravesh.

## Work on Escape Artists

### Escape Pod

* EP626 Fire Rode the Cold Wind, by Aimee Ogden

### PodCastle

* PC537 To the Moon, by Ken Liu (read by a full cast)
* PC549 Fixer, Worker, Singer by Natalia Theodoridou read by **Peter Behravesh**, Tina Connolly and Jen R. Albert
Rebecca Wei Hsieh

**Rebecca Wei Hsieh** (she/her) is an actor and writer with a BA in Theatre and Italian Studies from Wesleyan University. She doesn’t particularly enjoy talking about herself in the third person, but does it nonetheless to seem as professional as possible. As part of her attempt to be professional, Rebecca writes for Nerdy POC and Screen Rant, and has written for other publications such as Wanderful and OC87 Recovery Diaries. Rebecca is also a connoisseur of bad puns and a generally awkward queer woman of colour.

## Work on Escape Artists

### Pseudopod

* PP624 Flash on the Borderlands XLV: Personal Narratives - “Ten Things I Didn't Do” by Maria Haskins
Matthew Bey

Matthew Bey is a writer and editor living in Austin, Texas. He has a number of short stories in science fiction, horror, and fantasy anthologies. Matthew Bey's writing runs the gamut from absurdly comic to dark and terrifying. His short stories have appeared in Black Gate Magazine, Town Drunk, Pseudopod, Beneath Ceaseless Skies, Andromeda Spaceways Inflight Magazine, and many other venues.

Matthew Bey was born in Minnesota and grew up in Wisconsin. The formative years of his life were spent exploring the back channels of the Wisconsin River, only a little upstream of the stomping grounds of August Derleth and Clifford D. Simak. By the time he entered high school, his family had moved to Madison, the notoriously liberal and artsy capital. Through high school and later the University of Wisconsin, Matthew Bey learned the ways of GenX slacker cafe culture.

In 1998, Matthew Bey left Madison on a continent-spanning motorcycle tour with no intention of coming back. He did, but not before wintering in Austin and making connections with that capital city’s GenX slacker culture. In 2001, Matthew Bey returned to Austin, by way of a canoe trip down the Mississippi River.
Linda Hamilton

**Linda Hamilton** is an American actress best known for her portrayal of Sarah Connor in THE TERMINATOR film series and Catherine Chandler in the 1987–1990 television series BEAUTY AND THE BEAST, for which she was nominated for two Golden Globes and an Emmy.

Linda was born in Salisbury, Maryland, has a twin sister, was a voracious reader as a child and we are very proud to feature her on PSEUDOPOD!

## Work on Escape Artists

Pseudopod

* PP536 Artemis Rising 3 - Meat, by Sandra M. Odell
Nina Allan

**Nina Allan’**s stories have appeared in numerous magazines and anthologies, including Best Horror of the Year #6, The Year’s Best Science Fiction and Fantasy 2013, and The Mammoth Book of Ghost Stories by Women. Her novella Spin, a science fictional re-imagining of the Arachne myth, won the BSFA Award in 2014, and her story-cycle The Silver Wind was awarded the Grand Prix de L’Imaginaire in the same year. Her debut novel The Race was a finalist for the 2015 BSFA Award, the Kitschies Red Tentacle, and the John W. Campbell Memorial Award. A new, expanded edition of the novel The Race was released by Titan Books in the UK and the US in July of this year. Nina lives and works in North Devon.

## Work on Escape Artists

Pseudopod

* PP518 The Tiger, read by George Hrab
Leslie J. Anderson

**Leslie J. Anderson** was born and raised in Michigan and now lives in Ohio with her husband and a puppy named Caper. For her day job she organizes words for a bank. Her writing has appeared in Asimov’s, Andromeda Spaceways Inflight Magazine, Strange Horizons, and Daily Science Fiction. Her poetry has been nominated for a Pushcart and a Rhysling Award. She has a book of science fiction prompts, (called 100 Prompts For Science Fiction Writers) from Sterling Publishing. Her speculative poetry book, An Inheritance of Stone, was released from Alliteration Ink last year, and her urban fantasy novel, The Cricket Prophecies, was released in May by Post Mortem Press.

Leslie's story The Only Child was read by Emily Smith for Pseudopod episode 442.
Marguerite Croft

**Marguerite Croft** is a professional writer living in the San Francisco Bay Area. She’s a recovering anthropologist and a graduate of the Clarion West Writers Workshop; her most recent publication was in the **Boys of Summer** anthology. She has read fiction for Podcastle**,** Pseudopod**,** and Escape Pod.

## Work on Escape Artists

Escape Pod

* EP340 Golubash (Wine-Blood-War-Story), by Catherynne M. Valente
* EP567 Artemis Rising 3 - Baro Parrajamos, or Love in the Vardo, by Eileen Gunnell Lee

Pseudopod

* PP293 Flash on the Borderlands XII - (Black) Arts & (Dead) Letters: *Lost For Words*, by Kenneth Yu

PodCastle

* PCMini028 Elf Aware, by K. Tempest Bradford
* PC083 The Petrified Girl, by Katherine Sparrow
* PC139 To Follow the Waves, by Amal El-Mohtar
* PCMini060 Cranberry Honey, by Amal El-Mohtar
* PC185 This Strange Way of Dying, by Silvia Moreno-Garcia
* PC230 Little Better Than a Beast, by T.A. Pratt
* PC252 The Colors of the World, by Paul Willems
* PC283 Right Turns, by Tim Pratt
* PC330 DRINK ME (A Flash Fiction Extravaganza): *The Rag Man Mulls Down the Day*, by Amal El-Mohtar
* PC350 Who Binds and Looses the World With Her Hands, by Rachael K. Jones
* PC459 Artemis Rising 3 - Ice Bar, by Petra Kuppers
Mort Castle

**Mort Castle** has three times been Guest of Honor at the World Horror Convention, has had multiple nominations for the Bram Stoker Award and the Pushcart Prize, and was cited as one of “21 Leaders in the Arts for the 21st Century in Chicago” by the Star/Sun-Times Newspaper Group. He won the Readers’ Choice Black Quill Award for Best Non-Fiction Work for editing **ON WRITING HORROR** (2007) and the collection, **Ksi??yc na Wodzie** (**MOON ON THE WATER**) was considered one of the “Best Books Published in Poland” in 2008. The hardbound edition of J. N. Williamson’s **MASQUES**, Mort Castle Editorial Director, presenting horror stories in comics format, is available from Checker Book Publishing Group.
Matthew Acheson

**Matthew Acheson** lives in Orono, Maine. He earned his Bachelor’s in Computer Science and Ancient History from the University of Southern Maine, and has worked as an engineer in the telecommunications industry for over a decade. His fiction has appeared in **Raygun Revival**,**Spinetingler**, **Digital Dragon**, **Morpheus Tales**, and others. On some cold winter nights you’ll find him by the fireplace, entertaining his fourteen nieces and nephews with strange tales of supernatural horror and the fantastic.

Matthew's story No Further was read by Ian Stuart for Pseudopod episode 311, Flash on the Borderlands XIV: Resistance.
Rati Mehrotra

**Rati Mehrotra** is a Toronto-based speculative fiction writer whose short stories have appeared in AE – The Canadian Science Fiction Review, Apex Magazine, Urban Fantasy Magazine, and many more. Her debut novel “Markswoman” is about an order of magical-knife-wielding lady assassins in a post-apocalyptic, alternative version of Asia. It will be published in early 2018 by Harper Voyager.

## Work on Escape Artists

PodCastle

* PC421 Hatyasin, read by Mahvesh Murad
* PC449 Piety, Prayer, Peacekeeper, Apocalypse, read by Stephanie Morris
* PC482 The Family Ghost, read by Kaushik Narasimhan

Cast of Wonders

* CW239 Artemis Rising 3 - Hackers' Faire, read by Wilson Fowlie