recursal/Fanatic-Fandom huggingface dataset:
Derek Künsken

**Derek Künsken** has built genetically-engineered viruses, worked with street kids in Central America, served as a Canadian diplomat, and writes science fiction and fantasy in Ottawa, Canada. His work has previously appeared in **Beneath Ceaseless Skies**, **On Spec**, **Podcastle** and several times in **Asimov’s Science Fiction**. His work has been short-listed for the **Aurora Award** and has won the **Asimov’s Reader’s Award**. His website is **Derek Kunsken** and he blogs at **Blackgate**.

## Work on Escape Artists

Pseudopod

* PP392 The Dog’s Paw, read by Lewis Davies

PodCastle

* PC276 Juan Caceres in the Zapetero’s Workshop, read by Roberto Suarez
Kirsty Logan

Kirsty Logan is a writer of fiction and journalism. Her books are The Gracekeepers and The Rental Heart & Other Fairytales. She is a writer, book reviewer, and writing mentor for WoMentoring and the Scottish Book Trust. She also writes a column on the X-Files for The Female Gaze.

Her short fiction and poetry has been published in print and online, recorded for radio and podcasts, and exhibited in galleries. Her debut novel, *The Gracekeepers*, is out now! It's about a circus boat in a flooded world.

She lives in Glasgow, where she mostly hangs out with her fiancée Annie and her rescue dog Rosie, reads ghost stories, drinks coffee, crochets things, listens to riot grrrl, & dreams of the sea.
Kevin Wabaunsee

**Kevin Wabaunsee** is a speculative fiction writer living in Chicago. A former newspaper reporter on the health and medical beat, he is currently an editor and communications director for a large medical school. He is a Prairie Band Potawatomi.

## Work on Escape Artists

Escape Pod

* EP564 Trusted Messenger, read by Phillip Lanos
Joe Williams

When not inhabiting cyberspace or various fantastic fictional worlds **Joe Williams** resides in South London. He is a geek by trade and by nature; having undertaken at the tender age of two to rewire, much to his mother’s chagrin, a power socket in the family home, he’s never looked back. He spends his days wrangling both data and users making sure that they behave themselves and play nicely. His evenings, when not diverted by his remarkable wife or mercurial cats, are spent gaming, reading comics, and intending to write something.

## Work on Escape Artists

Escape Pod

* EP542 The Hungers of Refugees, by Michael Glyde
Beth Hull

**Beth Hull** lives in Northern California with her artist/scientist husband, their two children, and a cat who thinks she’s a dog. Beth writes young adult novels and the occasional short story. To learn more about Beth, her work, and the things that annoy her (windy days, ticking clocks), and scare her (black widow spiders lurking in the mailbox), you can visit her website.

## Work on Escape Artists

Cast of Wonders

* CW099 Little Wonders III: Scary Stories - Come To Me, read by Alasdair Stuart
Kendra Fortmeyer

**Kendra Fortmeyer** is a writer of strange fictions. She attended the Clarion Science Fiction and Fantasy Writers’ workshop in 2016 and has work appearing or forthcoming in The Best American Nonrequired Reading, Lightspeed, the Toast and elsewhere. Her debut magical realist novel is forthcoming from Little, Brown in June 2017. She loves mermaids and the word ‘swamp,’ and can be found at kendrafortmeyer.com.

## Work on Escape Artists

PodCastle

* PC474 Asymmetry, read by Dagny Paul
Kathryn Allen

**Kathryn Allen** lives in Yorkshire and sometimes writes fiction about facts which make her angry.

Kathryn's story Unheil was read by Elie Hirschman for Pseudopod episode 481, and was first published in Pantheon Magazine. It also appears in Typhon: A Monster Anthology which is currently available from Amazon, Barnes and Noble, and Createspace.
J. W. Alden

**J.W. Alden** lives near West Palm Beach, Florida with his wife Allison, who doesn’t mind the odd assortment of musical instruments and medieval weaponry that decorate his office (as long as he brandishes the former more often than the latter). Alden is a graduate of Odyssey Writing Workshop, a 1st Place Writers of the Future winner, and an active member of SFWA.

## Work on Escape Artists

Cast of Wonders

* CW243 The Tentacles Never Lie, read by Megan Leigh
Carmen Maria Machado

**Carmen Maria Machado**’s debut short story collection, Her Body and Other Parties, is forthcoming from Graywolf Press in Fall 2017. Her fiction and nonfiction have appeared in The New Yorker, Granta, Best American Science Fiction & Fantasy 2015, and elsewhere. She has been a finalist for the Calvino Prize, and nominated for a Nebula Award and a Shirley Jackson Award. She is a graduate of the Iowa Writers’ Workshop and the Clarion Science Fiction & Fantasy Writers’ Workshop, and lives in Philadelphia with her partner.

Carmen's story The Husband Stitch was read by Gabrielle de Cuir for PodCastle episode 409.
KB Sluss

Karissa is thrilled to be an Associate Editor with Cast of Wonders. She lives in North Carolina with her family and a hairy husky named Bonnie. Her favorite things are coffee, dark chocolate, Star Wars, and Princess Bride. By day she wrangles legal cases and hearing schedules for a small administrative court. At night, after cooking dinner, checking homework, and walking the dog, she writes and reads as much as possible. As **KB Sluss**, Karissa’s short stories have appeared in Daily Science Fiction, Cast of Wonders, and Lumina Station Quarterly. As **Karissa Laurel**, she is the author of several adult and YA novels. Her latest, “Heir of Thunder”, is a YA fantasy about the daughter of the god of thunder. You can find out more about her writing online at karissalaurel.com, and she loves making friends on Twitter @karissalaurel.

## Work on Escape Artists

Cast of Wonders

* CW242 Little Wonders 11 - Flash Fiction Contest Finalists: *Not-So-Stock Photos*, read by Marguerite Kenner
Kaushik Narasimhan

**Kaushik Narasimhan** is a management consultant by day, writer by night and psychonaut every weekend.

## Work on Escape Artists

Pseudopod

* PP448 Laal Aandhi, by Usman T. Malik
* PP516 The Fox, by Conrad Williams

PodCastle

* PC469 Ravana's Children, by Ian Muneshwar
* PC482 The Family Ghost, by Rati Mehrotra

Cast of Wonders

* CW211 Indian Rope Trick, by James Fitzsimmons
Gord Sellar

Gord Sellar is a writer, an educator, an avid homebrewer, and occasional musician. His work has appeared in many magazines, anthologies, and journals since 2007, and several of his screenplays have been made into award-winning short films. (See Brutal Rice Productions for more on those.)

He attended Clarion West in 2006, and was a finalist for the John W. Campbell Award for Best New Writer in 2009.

Born in Malawi and raised in Canada, and having spent eleven years lecturing in South Korean universities and two years in Southeast Asia, he is now working on a novel while living in the South Korean countryside.
Hollis Monroe

**Hollis Monroe** is an award winning radio producer, opera and jazz singer and Shakespearean. He served as executive producer and also read for Iowa Public Radio’s “The Book Club” for many years and is an active voice actor, emcee and singer.

## Work on Escape Artists

Pseudopod

* PP531 Gleed, by Jason Rush
* PP580 The Comet, by W. E. B. Du Bois
Julie Davis

**Julie Davis** lives in Dallas, Texas, where she does not have an ice cream truck but wishes she did after reading her first Escape Pod story. Instead, she reads favorite books on her podcast *Forgotten Classics* and discusses favorite books and movies at her other podcast, *A Good Story is Hard to Find*.

## Work on Escape Artists

Escape Pod

* EP585 We All Scream, by Marie Vibbert
Erika Sanderson

**Erika Sanderson** trained at the Royal Central School of Speech and Drama in London, UK.

A highly versatile character actress, Erika has created a myriad of roles in a variety of genres from children’s theatre to classical plays musical theatre and video games. She can regularly be heard on The NoSleep Podcast and Star Wars: Convergence as a voice actor.

## Work on Escape Artists

Cast of Wonders

* CW292 Little Wonders 17 - True Selves: *Smokedancing**:* by Natalia Theodoridou
Jörn Heidrath

**Jörn Heidrath** (née Meyer) fulfilled their dream of being a freelance artist and illustrator, and is currently a resident artist for the NoSleep podcast. Their job there is creating insomniac and terrifying artwork for the podcast's episodes, specifically tailored to the stories of that week.

## Work on Escape Artists

Pseudopod

* PP374 Flash on the Borderlands XIX: Blood On The Tracks – Departure, Transit, Arrival
Jen R. Albert

**Jen R. Albert** is an editor, entomologist, writer, narrator, game-player, cosplayer, streamer, reader of All the Things, and haver of far too many hobbies.

Jen somehow became co-editor of her favorite fantasy fiction podcast (PodCastle); she now wonders if she’s still allowed to call it her favorite. She works full-time as an editor at Toronto-based publisher ECW Press.

## Work on Escape Artists

### Pseudopod

* PP497 Killer, by Sean Ganus
* PP532 Artemis Rising 3 - Flash on the Borderlands XXXVI - Artemis Rising Showcase: *Eyes That See Everything*, by Karen Bovenmyer

### PodCastle

* PC390 Flash Fiction Extravaganza: Bears!: “The First Winter” by Renee Carter Hall
* PCMini086 The Wedding Of Snow, Earth, And Salt, by Kate Heartfield (with a full cast)
* PC413 This Is Not A Wardrobe Door, by A. Merc Rustad (with a full cast)
* PCMini Communion, by Jei D. Marcade; read with Graeme Dunlop
* PC425 Flash Fiction Extravaganza: Transformations - *Mirabilis,* by Shannon Peavey
* PC426 Sweeter Than Lead, by Benjamin C. Kinney
* PCMini90 How to Survive in Room 105, by T. Jane Berry
* PCMini95 The Stories She Tells Herself, by Kelly Sandoval
* PC463 A Dozen by Dunsany: *Charon;* by Lord Dunsany
* PC470 The Thirty-Seven Faces of Tokh-Bathon, by Effie Seiberg
* PCMini101 National Geographic on Assignment: The Unicorn Enclosure, by Sarah Monette
* PC505 There Are No Wrong Answers, by LaShawn M. Wanak; read by **Jen R. Albert** & Khaalidah Muhammad-Ali
* PC520 One Day, My Dear, I'll Shower You With Rubies, by Langley Hyde
* PC531 The Island of the Nine Whirlpools, by E. Nesbit
* PC537 To the Moon by Ken Liu (read by a full cast)
* PC540 Flash Fiction Extravaganza! The Three Phases of Equinox: “Antler, Ash & Onyx”, by A. C. MacLachlan
* PC549 Fixer, Worker, Singer by Natalia Theodoridou read by Peter Behravesh, Tina Connolly and **Jen R. Albert**
* PC557 The Griffin and the Minor Canon, by Frank Stockton

### Cast of Wonders

* CW216 Banned Books Week: This Story Begins With You, by Rachael K. Jones
* CW259 Seer's Salad, by Barbara A. Barnett
C. L. Clark

**Cherae L. Clark** graduated from Indiana University’s creative writing MFA. She’s been a personal trainer, an English teacher, and an editor, and is some combination thereof as she travels the world with her partner. When she’s not writing or working, she’s learning languages, doing P90something, or reading about war and [post-]colonial history. Her work has also appeared or is forthcoming in FIYAH and Uncanny.

## Work on Escape Artists

### Writing

#### PodCastle

* PC519 Burning Season, read by Khaalidah Muhammad-Ali
Kenneth Schneyer

In 2014 Kenneth was nominated for the Nebula Award, and was a finalist for the Sturgeon Memorial Award, for his story ‘Selected Program Notes from the Retrospective Exhibition of Theresa Rosenberg Latimer,’ which appeared on Podcastle. His first collection, **The Law & the Heart**, was released by Stillpoint Digital Press last year, and his stories also appear in Analog, Strange Horizons, Beneath Ceaseless Skies, Clockwork Phoenix 3 & 4, Daily Science Fiction, and elsewhere. Ken teaches business law and science fiction literature in Rhode Island. You can find him on Twitter, Facebook, and Livejournal.
Jim C. Hines

Jim C. Hines has written more than fifty published short stories. His first professional story sale was the award-winning “Blade of the Bunny,” which took first place in the 1998 Writers of the Future competition and was published in Writers of the Future XV.

Jim is an active blogger about topics ranging from sexism and harassment to zombie-themed Christmas carols, and won the Hugo Award for Best Fan Writer in 2012.

## Work on Escape Artists

### PodCastle

* PC013 Spell of the Sparrow read by Tina Connolly
* PC017 Goblin Lullaby read by Christiana Ellis
* PC315 Stranger vs the Malignant Malevolency, read by a full cast.
Jei D. Marcade

Jei – /jā/ – noun – A twenty-something, first-gen Korean-American speculative fiction writer and freshly minted librarian currently installed in the Rust Belt with a hydrobot and a hedgehog.

Preferred pronoun: gender neutral ( ey / em / eir )

Likes: thunderstorms, body mods, martial arts, comic books, bioluminescence, cute stationery, crepuscular skyscapes, the sea, werewolves, the Seoul metro system, coffee (black), whiskey (neat), and cheese (aplenty)

Dislikes: people who talk at the cinema, humidity, werewolves, and vindictive dead things with too much hair and a penchant for flouting the laws of physics

Research interests include: ambient intelligence environments, augmented reality, cyborg anthropology, linguistics, memetics, the occult, and spooky stories.

## Work on Escape Artists

Escape Pod

* EP499 Sounding the Fall, read by Amanda Ching

PodCastle

* PCMini88 Communion, read by Jen R. Albert and Graeme Dunlop
Kaitie Radel

**Kaitie Radel** is a music education student and aspiring voice actress, has been voice acting as a hobby for two years. She has participated as both a VA and administrator in several fan projects such as **The Homestuck Musical Project** and **Ava’s Melodies**. She can be contacted at kaitlynradel at mail.usf.edu.

## Work on Escape Artists

Escape Pod

* EP483 Boris's Bar, by Khaalidah Muhammad-Ali

Pseudopod

* PP462 Flash on the Borderlands XXIX - Monsters “Habeas Corpus” by Julia Watson
Gina Freeman

**Gina Freeman** is a writer, comedian and bioethicist based out of Calgary, Alberta, Canada, Earth, solar system, Milky Way, local group, Virgo supercluster, observable universe, unobservable universe. She loves science and art, and especially when the two collide. She also loves her work, which allows her to think scientifically while dreaming science fictionally. She writes plays for myriad festivals, contributes to a monthly feminist podcast and radio program, runs a weekly writers room, and writes jokes for a local late-night comedy variety talk show.

## Work on Escape Artists

PodCastle

* PC439 That Seriously Obnoxious Time I Was Stuck At Witch Rimelda’s One Hundredth Birthday Party, by Tina Connolly
Escape Pod

Logo by Scott Pond

****Escape Pod**** is the premier science fiction podcast magazine. Every week we bring you short stories from some of today’s best science fiction authors and rising stars.

We pay our authors, but we will always be 100% free. We are supported through listener donations and sponsorship, so if you like what you hear, please consider donating through the PayPal or Patreon links on our site!

Escape Pod is produced and distributed under a Creative Commons  Attribution-Noncommercial-No Derivative Works 3.0 License.

Theme music is by permission of Daikaiju.

## Hosts

As of 2017, Escape Pod was co-edited by Divya Breed and Mur Lafferty. They co-host the episodes along with Tina Connolly.

From 2015-2017, Escape Pod was co-hosted by Norm Sherman, Alasdair Stuart, and Tina Connolly.

Steve Eley hosted the show from its founding in 2005 until announcing his retirement on 26 April 2010. His last appearance was Episode 240 on 12 May 2010. Mur Lafferty assumed both producer and hosting roles at Escape Pod with Episode 241.

Effective 1 January 2013, Mur stepped down as editor, keeping her association with Escape Artists, Inc. On 18 December 2012, then-co-host Norm Sherman became the new editor with Alasdair Stuart serving as interim editor until Sherman assumed his new role.

In April, 2017, Norm Sherman stepped down as editor. Mur Lafferty returned to her role along with Divya Breed.

## Stories

The stories are the reason for all of what you see here. Escape Artists podcasts pay $0.06 per word for original fiction; $100.00 flat rate for reprints of any length. We are an SFWA qualifying market for original fiction and pay professional rates.

If you would like to submit a story to Escape Pod, submission guidelines are on the main website.

* List of Escape Pod stories
Kate Heartfield

**Kate Heartfield** writes fiction, mainly speculative fiction. Her stories have appeared in *Strange Horizons*, *Podcastle*, *Daily Science Fiction*, *GlitterShip,* *Bizarrocast*, *Crossed Genres*, *Lackington’s*, *Postscripts to Darkness*, *Waylines*, *Flash Fiction Online*, *On Spec, Black Treacle,* *Spellbound*and elsewhere. The complete list of stories she has had published is on her website.

Kate is an active member of SFWA, as well as Ottawa’s East Block Irregulars and the Codex writers’ group. She benefited from the mentorship of the late Paul Quarrington, through the Humber School for Writers, in 2007. From 2011 to 2014 I was a member of the board of the Ottawa International Writers Festival.

Kate is also a journalist, working as the editorial pages editor for the Ottawa Citizen, the daily broadsheet in Canada’s capital. She is currently working on a historical fantasy novel.

Her agent is Jennie Goloboy of Red Sofa Literary.
Karl Edward Wagner

**Karl Edward Wagner** (1945 – 1994) was an American writer, poet, editor and publisher of horror, science fiction, and heroic fantasy, who was born in Knoxville, Tennessee and originally trained as a psychiatrist. He wrote numerous dark fantasy and horror stories. As an editor, he created a three-volume set of Robert E. Howard’s Conan the Barbarian fiction restored to its original form as written and edited the long-running and genre-defining The Year’s Best Horror Stories series for DAW Books. He is possibly best known for his creation of a series of stories featuring the character Kane, the Mystic Swordsman, which could best be described as featuring the action of Conan and the decadence of Moorcock’s Elric. Wagner also loved the pulp era of short fiction, which is apparent in many of his short stories.

## Work on Escape Artists

Pseudopod

* PP560 Where the Summer Ends, read by Anson Mount
Justin Thomas James

**Justin Thomas James** grew up on audiobooks and now is thrilled to be narrating them full time! Some of his works include REBOOT: Afterlife Online by Domino Finn and The Wizard Killer series by Adam Dreece. He enjoys narrating short stories on the side for fun and also has a number of children’s joke books recorded in his name.

## Work on Escape Artists

Cast of Wonders

* CW279 Random Play All and the League of Awesome, by Shane Halbach
James Beamon

**James Beamon** discovered awhile back that if he wrote down some of the stuff he randomly makes up all the time, people might print it. It’s been a semi-charmed life ever since with his stories popping up at F&SF, Apex Magazine, Daily Science Fiction and a slew, or maybe a half slew, of others. An Air Force veteran who’s deployed to Iraq and Afghanistan, James now lives in Virginia with his wife, son and a cat who thinks his part-time job is alarm clock, even on weekends. Especially on weekends.

## Work on Escape Artists

Escape Pod

* EP596 The Wind You Touch When You Run, read by Dominick Rabrun
Harold Gross

**HAROLD GROSS** has previously published in **Fantasy & Science Fiction**, **Analog**, other magazines, and several anthologies. Currently, “The Song Giveth…” is serialized in issues 9-12 of the online magazine, **Aethernet**, based in the UK but also available electronically in the US. While he appears most often as **Harold Gross**, his collaborative alter-ego, **Gordon Gross**, appears in several venues. In addition to writing, Harold has also been caught in live and recorded performances on stage and screen. His blog at **The 5 a.m. Critic** currently contains a wide range of non-spoiler movie reviews as well as links to available reprints and current publications.

## Work on Escape Artists

Pseudopod

* PP399 The Wriggling Death, read by Veronica Giguere
Jessica Dubish

**Jessica Dubish** is a sophomore Theatre Major at George Mason University. George Mason University; The Merchant (Gypsy Busker), Women and Wallace (Victoria), Slumber Party (Nancy), The Blue Room (The Girl), The Vagina Monologues (My Angry Vagina), Dido, Queen of Carthage (Cupid). Jessica is a Teaching Artist at Acting for Young People.

## Work on Escape Artists

Escape Pod

* EP482 Chimeras, by Julie Steinbacher
Ian Tregillis

**Ian Tregillis** attended the University of Minnesota for both college and graduate school. Eventually, the university decided it had seen quite enough of him, so it politely but firmly asked him to leave, grow up, and get a real job. Ian's parting gift was a doctorate in physics for his research on radio galaxies. After finishing his thesis, he moved to New Mexico just as soon as he found a group of people willing to hire him. He's still a bit surprised by this because he has no useful skills.

In 2005, Ian attended the Clarion Writers' Workshop in East Lansing, Michigan. (This was the second-to-last Clarion class in the program's 35-year run at Michigan State University before the program moved to its new home at UCSD in 2007.) There he spent six weeks living in a sweltering, slightly creepy, soon-to-be-condemned sorority house with twelve other aspiring writers. Scurvy was a problem. However, in spite of many predictions, cannibalism was not.

After Clarion, and thanks to Walter Jon Williams, he was welcomed into New Mexico's disproportionately large community of professional science fiction and fantasy writers. Although he often feels like a minor league batboy inexplicably mistaken for a professional baseball player, he has shared critiques with, and worked alongside, a long list of New Mexico writers including WJW, Daniel Abraham, Melinda Snodgrass, S. M. Stirling, Ty Franck, Victor Milán, Sage Walker, and George R. R. Martin.

Nowadays he lives in northern New Mexico, where he consorts with writers, scientists, and other disreputable types.

## Work on Escape Artists

Writing

PodCastle

* PC348 Testimony of Samuel Frobisher Regarding Events on Her Majesty’s Ship, read by Ian Stuart
Jessi Cole Jackson

**Jessi Cole Jackson** lives with her husband in the prettiest part of New Jersey, though she’s not from there. By day she builds costumes for a Tony-award winning theatre. By night she writes stories, questionable poetry and lots of abandoned outlines. She’s currently up to her elbows dressing a show and revising a YA novel. When she’s not working she enjoys cooking, reading, and exploring local farms. You can read more about her sometimes exciting (but mostly just normal) life at her www.jessicolejackson.com.

*The Rum Cake Runner* was originally published by Crossed Genres Magazine in December 2013.

## Work on Escape Artists

PodCastle

* PCMini100 Seven Things That Oughn't Cut Me, read by Dagny Paul

Cast of Wonders

* CW161 The Rum Cake Runner, read by Michelle Ristuccia
Holly Heisey

**Holly Heisey** launched their writing career in sixth grade when they wrote their class play, a medieval fantasy. It was love at first dragon. Since then, their short fiction has appeared in InterGalactic Medicine Show, The Doomsday Chronicles, Clockwork Phoenix 5, and Transcendent: The Year’s Best Transgender Speculative Fiction, and has been translated into German and Estonian. A freelance designer by day, Holly lives in Upstate New York with Larry and Moe, their two pet cacti, and they are currently at work on a science fantasy epic.

## Work on Escape Artists

Escape Pod

* EP551 The Most Absurd Dance at the End of the Worlds, read by Andrea Richardson
Helen Marshall

**Helen Marshall** is an award-winning Canadian author, editor, and doctor of medieval studies. Her poetry and fiction have been published in **The Chiaroscuro**, **Abyss** & **Apex**, **Lady Churchill’s Rosebud Wristlet**, **Tor.com** and have been reprinted in several Year’s Best anthologies. Her debut collection of short stories *Hair Side, Flesh Side* (ChiZine Publications, 2012) was named one of the top ten books of 2012 by **January Magazine**. It won the **2013 British Fantasy Award** for **Best Newcomer** and was short-listed for an 2013 **Aurora Award** by the **Canadian Society of Science Fiction and Fantasy**. Her second collection *Gifts for the Ones Who Come After* was released in September 2014.

## Work on Escape Artists

### Escape Pod

* EP485 Supply Limited, Act Now, read by Graeme Dunlop

### Pseudopod

* PP470 The Santa Claus Parade, read by The Word Whore
G. W. Thomas

**G. W. Thomas** has been a published author since 1987 with “The City in the Sea” in Cthulhu Now! By 1993 he was appearing in Writer’s Digest along with other magazines such as The Writer, The Armchair Detective, The Mystery Review and Black October Magazine. In 1999 he received an Honorable Mention from Years’ Best Fantasy & Horror for “Waking Dream” (Flesh & Blood #4, June 1999).

He lives in the cold, flat part of Alberta, Canada.

## Work on Escape Artists

Pseudopod

* PP045 Goon Job, read by Ben Phillips
* PP077 Merlin’s Bane, read by Ben Phillips
Ethan Jones

**Ethan Jones** lives in Melbourne, Australia. He has a passion for audio drama, and this passion led him to create his own: ‘Caught Up’, an audio drama about three men who are unwillingly thrust into a world of crime after a shocking encounter with a hardened criminal.

## Work on Escape Artists

Escape Pod

* EP502 Gorlack the Destroyer’s All You Can Eat Adventure, by Robert Lowell Russell
Jacquie Duckworth

**Jacquie Duckworth** grew up sneaking out of her room in the wee hours of the night to watch **Twilight Zone** and **Night Gallery** (my kind of girl – ed.). She is an actress in the San Francisco Bay Area performing everything from Shakespeare to sketch comedy and is proud to have been featured as the “Bondi Neighbor Woman” in a television episode of Discovery ID Channel’s **I ALMOST GOT AWAY WITH IT!**

## Work on Escape Artists

Pseudopod

* PP183 Learning to Fly, by Garth Upshaw
* PP203 Flash on the Borderlands III: Ladies’ night at the meat market - *My Body Your Banquet* by C.S.E. Cooney
* PP330 Flash on the Borderlands XV: At Your Service! - *Last Waltz in Texas*, by Bryce Albertson
* PP568 The Room in the Other House, by Kristi DeMeester

PodCastle

* PC382 Of Blood And Brine, by Megan E. O’Keefe
J. T. Glover

**J. T. Glover** is an academic research librarian by day, lives in Richmond, Virginia, and is originally from Seattle.

He has published short fiction in *The Children of Old Leech*, *The Lovecraft eZine*, *Handsome Devil: Stories of Sin and Seduction*, and *Weirdbook*, among other venues. His non-fiction has appeared in *LampLight*, *Postscripts to Darkness*, and *Thinking Horror*.

Look for his short story “There Has Never Been Anyone Here” in volume four of *Nightscript*, scheduled for October 2018.

## Work on Escape Artists

### Pseudopod

* PP543 Be Still, My Dear, And Listen, read by Dagny Paul
* PP622 En Plein Air, read by Heather N. Thomas
Auston Habershaw

**Auston Habershaw** was born on the day Skylab fell from the heavens. This foretold two possible fates: supervillain or scifi/fantasy author. Fortunately he chose the latter, and spends his time imagining the could-be and the never-was rather than disintegrating the moon with his volcano laser. He lives and works in Boston, MA.

Auston is a winner of the Writers of the Future Contest (2nd place in quarter 1, 2014) and has published stories in *Analog*, *The Sword and Laser Anthology,*and *Stupefying Stories.*His debut novel, The Iron Ring (Book 1 in the Saga of the Redeemed), was released on 2/10/15.

His story Adaptation and Predation ran on Escape Pod, episode 513, read by Jeff Ronner
Hillary Dodge

Hillary Dodge is an award-winning editor and author of several speculative short fictions as well as three nonfiction books. She spends a good deal of time traveling, going places that are forbidden, and eating. She once had tea with a Roma in a cave in the mountains of Spain. Another time found her eight hours from civilization in the heart of the Atacama with a mad desert hermit. She has been published in online magazines, podcasts, and print anthologies, including Pseudopod, Space Squid, Hellbound Books, & Hex Publishers. She is a co-editor of *Shadow Atlas: Dark Landscapes of the Americas* (Hex Publishers, 2021), which was awarded the 2022 Colorado Book Award in the category of Anthology.

## Work on Escape Artists

Pseudopod

* PP545 Indiscretions, read by Christiana Ellis
J. L. Flannery

**J. L.Flannery** lives in Warwickshire, England with her husband Nathan. She loves Japanese pop culture, crochet and video games. She has just completed her Lovecraft inspired debut novel, The Melancholy Secrets Of Sea Fret House and is actively seeking agent representation.

## Work on Escape Artists

Pseudopod

* PP599 The Boy With the Glass Eyes, read by Paul S. Jenkins
Gus Moreno

**Gus Moreno** is from the south side of Chicago, and his work has appeared in LitroNY, Bluestem Magazine, Chuck Palahniuk’s “Burnt Tongues” anthology, and a bunch of other places that are totally not defunct. He is currently working on a new novel.

## Work on Escape Artists

Pseudopod

* PP552 The All or Nothing Days, read by Maui Threv
Jason Rush

**Jason Rush** lives in Colorado with his wife, Shannon, and dog, Freckles. When he’s not writing, he snowboards, skateboards, hikes, climbs mountains and plays guitar. He is currently working on his first novel, Mad Maddie, which took first place in the Zebulon contest at the Pikes Peak Writers Conference.

## Work on Escape Artists

Pseudopod

* PP460 Great Oak, read by Cheyenne Wright
* PP531 Gleed, read by Hollis Monroe
Kotori Itsuka

**Kotori Itsuka** (五河 琴里 *Itsuka Kotori*) ist eine der Hauptcharaktere aus Date A Live. Sie ist Shidos Stiefschwester, und arbeitet heimlich als Kommandantin der Fraxinus (Luftschiff).

## Zusammenfassung

**Kotori Itsuka** ist die kleine Schwester von Shido, sie ist auch eine Mittelschülerin sowie eine Kommandantin von einer geheim Organisation bekannt als Ratatoskr.

5 Jahre vor der Handlung der Serie wurde Kotori von einem mysteriösen Geisterwesen selbst zu einem Geist verwandelt. Nicht viel später wurde ihr über die Methode dessen erzählt, wie man ihre Kräfte versiegeln kann. Shido scheint in der Lage zu sein, die Kräfte von Kotori zu versiegeln, da er damals kurz nach Kotoris Verwandlung unbewusst ihre kräfte versiegelte. Allerdings verlor sie aus einem unbekannten Grund ihre Erinnerungen an dieses Ereignis. Erst 5 Jahre später als Kotori um Shido zu retten, der mit Kurumi auf dem Schuldach kämpfte das 2. Mal ihre Geisterkräfte verwendet, hat sie ihre Kräfte nicht mehr komplett unter Kontrolle. Als Shido und Kotori dann miteinander reden wie sie Kotoris Kräfte versiegeln wollen, erinnert sich Kotori wieder an dem Tag als sie zum Geisterwesen wurde. Später bennenen sie das mysteriöse Geisterwesen mit dem Decknamen "Phantom".

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Becky Stinemetze

**Becky Stinemetze** works in marketing in San Antonio, Texas. She is married and has two dogs that are practically her children. She loves to cook, go to concerts, and of course do voice over work. She hopes to to one day be a full time voice over artist. If you wish to contact Becky about any voice over work of any kind or if you just want to follow her antics; you can find her on Twitter or read her blog.

## Work on Escape Artists

Pseudopod

* PP381 Scarred, by Damien Angelica Walters

PodCastle

* PC512 Artemis Rising 4 - Scar Clan, by Carrow Narby
James Miller

During the day, **James A. Miller** works on Milking Robots in the Madison Wisconsin area. At night, he spends time with his family and does his best to come up with fun and creative fiction. He is a first reader for Allegory e-zine and member of the Codex writer’s group. He has two cats but will resist the urge to say anything cute about them here.

## Work on Escape Artists

Escape Pod

* EP540 The Right Answer, read by Adam Pracht
J. J. Roth

**J. J. Roth** lives in the San Francisco Bay Area with her partner, two school-aged sons, and two geriatric cats. She parents the kids and cats, practices law at a tech company, and squeezes writing into the interstices. Her work has appeared in *Nature*, *Urban Fantasy Magazine*, *Andromeda Spaceways Inflight Magazine*, and a number of small press venues. J. J. is an associate member of the SFWA and a member of the Codex writers’ group. For more information and updates, please visit her web site, follow her on Twitter, or find her on Facebook where she is JJ Roth.

## Work on Escape Artists

PodCastle

* PC480 All Of The Cuddles With None Of The Pain, read by a Full Cast
Jeff Bowles

**Jeff Bowles** was born and raised in high country Colorado. In 2015, he earned his creative writing M.F.A. at Western State Colorado University, where he studied under industry veterans and produced a thesis novel he’ll be publishing soon. His work has appeared in venues like Nashville Review, the world’s premier horror fiction podcast, Pseudopod, The Threepenny Review, and Spark: a Creative Anthology. He’s written and published everything from Science Fiction, Fantasy, and Horror to Creative Nonfiction and Poetry. His writing has appeared in **Spark: A Creative Anthology**, **Nashville Review**, and **Penumbra** eMag.

He lives on the vast, wide-open plains of Colorado with his wife and his far too many strange ideas.

## Work on Escape Artists

Pseudopod

* PP429 Flash on the Borderlands XXIV: Femmes Fatales: *Making Paint As A Means Of Impermanence,* read by Misty Dawn

PodCastle

* PC408 Tumbleweeds and Little Girls, read by Julie Hoverson
Jenny Rae Rappaport

**Jenny Rae Rappaport** is a graduate of the Odyssey Writing workshop, and holds a BA in Creative Writing from Carnegie Mellon University. Her work has previously appeared in Knitty and STRAEON. She lives in New Jersey with her family, where she divides her time between novel writing and herding small children.

## Work on Escape Artists

Cast of Wonders

* CW257 Little Wonders 13 - Death: *The Black Veils*, read by Setsu Uzume
Josh Roseman

**Josh Roseman** has been published in **Asimov’s** and on **Escape Pod**, among other places, and his reviews appear regularly at Escapepod.org (he’s on the forums as Listener). His most recent fiction sale was **“Secret Santa”**, which appeared on The Dunesteef last December, and he is currently seeking a publisher for his new superhero novel. He’s in the midst of a Buffy re-watch on his blog, **Listener**.

## Work on Escape Artists

Writing

Escape Pod

* EP351 113 Feet, read by Mur Lafferty

Cast of Wonders

* CW131 Survivor, read by Marguerite Kenner

Narration

Escape Pod

* EP313 Playing Doctor, by Robert T. Jeschonek
* EP318 The Prize Beyond Gold, by Ian Creasey
* EP323 Marking Time on the Far Side of Forever, by DK Latta
* EP336 The Speed of Time, by Jay Lake
* EP363 Flowing Shapes, by Rajan Khanna
* EP347 Next Time, Scales, by John Moran
* EP535 Bluejay, by Edward Ashton

Pseudopod

* PP227 Man Eat Man, by Mike Irwin
* PP285 Kill Screen, by Chris Lewis Carter
* PP330 Flash On The Borderlands XV: At Your Service!: *Meat* by David Steffen
James Patrick Kelly

**James Patrick Kelly** is an American science fiction writer born April 11, 1951, in Mineola, New York. He began selling science fiction professionally in the mid-1970s, and has subsequently become one of the field’s leading writers of short fiction.

He has won the Hugo Award twice, for his 1995 novelette “*Think Like A Dinosaur*” and for his 1999 novelette “*Ten to the Sixteenth to One*.” His 2005 novella “*Burn*” won the Nebula Award. His novels include *Freedom Beach* (1986, with John Kessel), *Look Into the Sun* (1989), and *Wildlife* (1994). Also with John Kessel, he co-edited the anthologies *Feeling Very Strange: The Slipstream Anthology* (2006), *Rewired: The Post-Cyberpunk Anthology* (2007), and *The Secret History of Science Fiction* (2009).

A prolific teacher, Kelly has taught at most of the major science-fiction writing workshops, including Clarion, Clarion West, Viable Paradise, and Odyssey. Since 1998, he has served on the New Hampshire State Council on the Arts; he chaired the council in 2004. He is the Vice Chair of the Clarion Foundation, which oversees the Clarion Science Fiction Workshop; he has served on the Board of Directors of the New England Foundation for the Arts; and he is currently on the faculty of the Stonecoast Creative Writing MFA Program at the University of Southern Maine. He also writes a column about SF on the internet for Asimov’s SF and is The Story Doctor for Mothership Zeta.

## Work on Escape Artists

Escape Pod

* EP230 Candy Art, read by Kate Baker
* EP299 Plus or Minus, read by Christiana Ellis
* EP325 Bad Dogs Escape, read by AB Kovacs, Pamela L. Quevillon, John Cmar
* EP489 Uncanny, read by Dani Cutler
* EP587 Someday, read by Ibba Armancas
Jared Axelrod

**Jared Axelrod** has been involved with podcasting for almost a decade as the writer and producer of three science-fiction podcasts, the audio anthology series **“The Voice Of Free Planet X,”** and the serials **“Aliens You Will Meet”** and **“Fables Of The Flying City.”** The story started in **“Fables Of The Flying City”** is concluded in **The Battle Of Blood & Ink**, a graphic novel published by Tor. She is also the creator of several comics and short stories featuring the down-on-his-luck supervillain, **Comrade Cockroach**.

## Work on Escape Artists

Escape Pod

* EP083 Ulla by Daniel Schwabauer, read with J.R. Blackwell
* EP115 Conversations With and About My Electric Toothbrush, by Derek Zumsteg
* EP145 Instead of a Loving Heart, by Jeremiah Tolbert
* EP171 Fenneman's Mouth, by Andy Duncan

Pseudopod

* PP041 Fingerbones Hung Like Mobiles, by Paul Jessup
* PPBonus Flash Fan Letter To Joe Lansdale, by Adrian Simmons
Joel Kenyon

**Joel Kenyon** is a veteran podcaster, writer, musician and artist. He’s currently a member of the 4 man comedy show, The Undercover Unitards and he also has a weekly independent music show called The Sunshine Happy Kpants Hour. When he’s not recording, he writes a movie review blog, occasionally draws an online comic, paints pictures, writes stories and attempts to make music with friends. Joel is not a fan, however, of writing in the third person perspective, so writing this bio was painful for him.

## Work on Escape Artists

Escape Pod

* EP412 Thirty Seconds From Now, by John Chu
* EP504 End of the World Community College, by Sandra McDonald
John Michnya

**John Michnya** is an actor, illustrator, and screen printer living in Pittsburgh PA.

## Work on Escape Artists

Pseudopod

* PP411 Flash on the Borderlands XXIII: Grief: *The Beachcomber*, by L. R. Bonehill

PodCastle

* PC306 Flash Fiction Special – Tales of Strange Inspiration: *A Duet in Reyes*, by Caleb Wilson
* PC309 Underbridge, by Peter S. Beagle
* PC319 America Thief, by Alter S. Reiss
Joel Enos

**Joel Enos** is a writer and editor who has written comics (Sonic the Hedgehog) and graphic novels (Ben 10 Omniverse) and published short fiction in *Whispers from the Abyss, Visibility Fiction, The Lorelei Signal, Theme of Absence* and *Flapperhouse*. Follow him online and on

## Work on Escape Artists

Cast of Wonders

* CW244 Terminals, by Angela & Joel Enos, read by Tatiana Grey
Heather Simmons

**Heather Simmons** grew up in South Africa and has made her home in the United States. She is an active participant in community theatre with radio experience and can be reached for narration requests at heatheresimmons at gmail

## Work on Escape Artists

Pseudopod

* PP524 Flash on the Borderlands XXXV - The Kids Are All Wrong: *What the Dollhouse Said*, by Karen Bovenmyer
Esther Saxey

**Esther Saxey** received her D.Phil. in English literature from the University of Sussex, United Kingdom.

She has published on the interconnection of sexuality and narrative in various texts, including Tolkien’s *The Lord of the Rings* (Reading The Lord of the Rings, 2006), the TV series *Buffy the Vampire Slayer* (Reading the Vampire Slayer, 2002) and the *Love and Rockets* comics series by Jaime Hernandez (2006).

She has also provided a critical introduction and notes for the Wordsworth editions of *The Well of Loneliness* by Radclyffe Hall, and *Lady Audley’s Secret* by Mary Elizabeth Braddon.

## Work on Escape Artists

Escape Pod

* EP508 A Day Without Sunshine, read by Amanda Ching
Julie C. Day

**Julie C. Day** holds an MFA in Creative Writing from the University of Southern Maine’s Stonecoast program and a Masters of Science in Microbiology from the University of Massachusetts. Her fiction has appeared or is forthcoming in over two dozen venues, including Interzone, Podcastle, and Kaleidotrope. In addition to Podcastle, she narrates other people’s fiction at StarshipSofa and FarFetched Fables and also acts as host and narrator of the Small Beer Press podcast.

## Work on Escape Artists

PodCastle

Author

* PC507 The Rocket Farmer, read by Lisa Hicks

Narrator

* PC386 Flash Fiction Extravaganza! Ghostly Interludes: *The Faces Between Us*, by Dave Thompson
* PC433 Telling Stories, by Sandra M. Odell
Danny Adams

**Danny Adams** is the author of numerous speculative short stories and poems, and he reviews fantasy and science fiction books for Publishers Weekly. He is also the co-author with Phil Farmer of the short science fiction novel *The City Beyond Play* (PS, 2007 / 2012). His short fiction has appeared in Abyss & Apex, Appalachian Heritage, Asimov's Science Fiction, Ideomancer, Mythic Delirium, Not One Of Us, Paradox, Space & Time, Star\*Line, Strange Horizons, The Worlds of Philip Jose Farmer, and even the Journal of the American Chestnut Foundation.

Danny and his wife Laurie live with a myriad of rescued cats and dogs.

## Work on Escape Artists

Escape Pod

* EP045 Are You Ready For the End of the World?, read by Paul S. Jenkins, Tee Morris
G. Scott Huggins

**G. Scott Huggins** teaches history at The Independent School of Wichita, Kansas. His most recent publication is the standalone short story “When the Fleet Comes,” available on Amazon from Digital Science Fiction.

## Work on Escape Artists

Escape Pod

* EP570 What Good Is a Glass Warrior?, read by Jen Rhodes

PodCastle

* PC415 Responsibility Descending, read by Wilson Fowlie
Eugie Foster

**Eugie Foster** (December 30, 1971 – September 27, 2014) was an American short story writer, columnist, and editor.

Her stories have been published in a number of magazines and book anthologies, including Fantasy Magazine, Realms of Fantasy, Orson Scott Card's InterGalactic Medicine Show, and Interzone. Her collection of short stories, Returning My Sister's Face and Other Far Eastern Tales of Whimsy and Malice, was published in 2009.

After receiving her master's degree in psychology, she retired from academia to pen flights of fancy. She also edited legislation for the Georgia General Assembly, which from time to time she suspected were another venture into flights of fancy. She was also a director for Dragon\*Con and edited their onsite newsletter, the Daily Dragon.

Eugie received the 2009 Nebula Award for Best Novelette for "Sinner, Baker, Fabulist, Priest; Red Mask, Black Mask, Gentleman, Beast" which you can listen to on Escape Pod. She's also been a finalist for the Hugo, Washington Science Fiction Association Small Press, and British Science Fiction Association awards.

Foster died at Emory University Hospital on September 27, 2014 from respiratory failure, a complication of treatments for Large B-Cell Lymphoma. The day Foster died, Daily Science Fiction published her last short story, nominated for the Nebula award, "When it Ends, He Catches Her." This story ran on PseudoPod.

## Work on Escape Artists

Writing

Escape Pod

* EP017 The Life and Times of Penguin, read by Mur Lafferty
* EP039 My Friend is a Lesbian Zombie, ready by The Word Whore
* EP121 The Snow Woman's Daughter, read by cunning minx
* EP214 Sinner, Baker, Fablist, Priest; Red Mask, Black Mask, Gentleman, Beast (2010 Hugo Award nominee), read by Lawrence Santoro
* EP261 Only Springtime When She's Gone, read by Jason Adams
* EP388 Trixie and the Pandas of Dread, read by Mur Lafferty

Pseudopod

* PP004 Returning My Sister’s Face, read by Stephen Eley
* PP018 Oranges, Lemons and Thou Beside Me, read by Paul S. Jenkins
* PP040 Wanting to Want, read by Tabitha Smith
* PP091 Caesar’s Ghost, read by Cat Rambo
* PP137 The Reign of the Wintergod, read by Leann Mabry
* PP265 Biba Jibun, read by Kara Grace
* PP428 When It Ends, He Catches Her, read by Tina Connolly

PodCastle

* PC028 The Tanuki-Kettle, read by Tina Connolly
* PC063 Daughter of Botu, read by Diane Severson
* PCMini045 When Shakko Did Not Lie, read by Melissa Bugaj
* PC184 Black Swan, White Swan, read by Abra Staffin-Wiebe

Cast of Wonders

* CW200 Running on Two Legs, read by Khaalidah Muhammad-Ali

Narration

Escape Pod

* EP229 Littleblossom Makes a Deal With the Devil, by S. Hutson Blount

Pseudopod

* PP343 Magdala Amygdala, by Lucy Snyder

PodCastle

* PC105 Honored Guest, by Ellen Kushner
Jeffrey R. DeRego

Jeffrey DeRego signing Escape Clause at the poorest attended book signing on Earth...

### Recent work

Amazon Author page

**Jeffrey R. DeRego** is the author of the Escape Pod fan-favorite Union Dues stories, and other things, as well.

## Work on Escape Artists

Escape Pod

* EP027 Union Dues – Iron Bars and the Glass Jaw, read by Jonathon Sullivan
* EP041 Ambient Sleaze, read by Mur Lafferty
* EP049 Union Dues – Off White Lies, read by Scott Sigler
* EP062 Union Dues – The Baby and the Bathwater, read by Mur Lafferty
* EP080 Union Dues – Cleanup in Aisle Five, read by Rich Sigfrit
* EP128 Union Dues – Send in the Clowns, read by Dani Cutler
* EP149 Union Dues – All That We Leave Behind, read by Stephen Eley
* EP154 Union Dues – Freedom With a Small f, read by Nuri
* EP172 Union Dues – Tabula Rasa, read by Stephen Eley
* EP185 Union Dues – All About the Sponsors, read by Stephen Eley
* EP233 Union Dues – The Threnody of Johnny Toruko, read by Stephen Eley
* EP257 Union Dues – The Sum of Its Parts, read by PG Holyfield
* EP304 Union Dues – Sidekicks in Stockholm, read by Stephen Eley

## Work in Other Places

**Clonepod Union Dues - Team Shikaragaki**

* Ep11: The Ballad of Kitty Momoiro
* Ep 16: The Saga of Tam Suji
* Ep 22: The Sojourn of Taizen Kiiro

**Tales of the Zombie War**

* Pleasant Hollow
	+ Lilies for Donald
	+ The Marionette
	+ Sweet like Maple Sugar
	+ Bees Do It
	+ Needs
* Stand Alone
	+ Lady of Mercy

## Books and Anthologies

Novels:

* Escape Clause - published May 2012 by ENC Press

* Fleas - published March 2015 by Jeff DeRego

* Union Dues: Team Shikaragaki Go! - published June 10, 2022 by Jeffrey R. DeRego \*Kindle Edition

Anthologies:

* Live Free or Undead (Anthology) featuring the story "Lilies for Donald" by Jeffrey R. DeRego - published 2010 by Plaidswede Publishing
* Live Free or Die, Die, Die! (Anthology) featuring the story "Coo Coo for Coconuts" by Jeffrey R. DeRego - published 2012 by Plaidswede Publishing
* Live Free or Sci-Fi (Anthology) featuring the story "Mighty" by Jeffrey R. DeRego - Published 2013 by Plaidswede Publishing
Kenny Kinlund

**Kenny Kinlund** is a musician from Lincoln, Nebraska. His band Warbonnet has a self-titled album out on iTunes with Tremulant Records, but he would rather you send your money to the American Civil Liberties Union or the Electronic Frontier Foundation right now.

## Work on Escape Artists

Pseudopod

* PP528 Unsent Letter From An Unnamed Student, by Aaron Fox-Lerner
J. R. Dawson

**J. R. Dawson** is a graduate from the MFA program at Stonecoast. Her stories have been seen in Mothership Zeta, The Omnibus of Dr. Bil Shakes and the Magnificent Ionic Pentatetrameter, and Silk Road Review. She was recently a writer in residence at Kimmel Harding Nelson Center for the Arts and a CSArtist through Omaha Creative Institute. Dawson loves science fiction and fantasy, and sometimes she allows it to be funny. Only sometimes.

## Work on Escape Artists

Escape Pod

* EP580 Nozizwe and Almahdi, read by Eric Luke