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Jim Bihyeh

**Jim Bihyeh** is the author of a story collection called Coyote Tales, several of which have been featured on Pseudopod. He is a non-fiction writer for publications like *The Navajo Times*, *Arizona Highways*, and *High Country News*. Jim grew up on the Navajo reservation, and returns there regularly to do work as an oral historian.

## Work on Escape Artists

Pseudopod

* PP159 Reservation Monsters, read by Ben Phillips
* PP167 Love Like Thunder, read by Cayenne Chris Conroy
* PP182 The Dreaming Way, read by Cayenne Chris Conroy
* PP598 Walk In Beauty, read by Cayenne Chris Conroy
Ian McHugh

**Ian McHugh** first found success as a speculative fiction writer winning the short story contest at the 2004 Australian national SF convention. Since then he has sold stories to professional and semi-pro magazines, webzines and anthologies in Australia and internationally. His stories have won grand prize in the Writers of the Future contest, been shortlisted five times at Australia’s Aurealis Awards (winning Best Fantasy Short Story in 2010), reprinted in Australian year’s best anthologies, honourably mentioned for world year’s bests and appeared in the *Locus* and *Tangent Online* annual Recommended Reading Lists. He graduated from the Clarion West writers’ workshop in 2006. His first collection of short stories, *Angel Dust*, was shortlisted for the Aurealis Award for Best Collection in 2015.

Ian lives in Canberra, Australia and is a member of the Canberra Speculative Fiction Guild.

## Work on Escape Artists

Escape Pod

* EP205 Requiem in D-minor (for prions, whale and burning bush), read by Frank Key

Pseudopod

* PP130 The Greatest Adventure of All, read by Alasdair Stuart
* PP546 Monsters Exist, read by Ron Jon

PodCastle

* PC129 Songdogs, read by Amanda Fitzwater
* PC224 The Navigator and the Sky, read by Darren Kelk
Helena Bell

**Helena Bell** is a poet and writer living in Raleigh, North Carolina where she is an MFA candidate in Fiction at NC State University.  She has a BA, another MFA, a JD, and an LLM in Taxation which fulfills her lifelong ambition of having more letters follow her name than are actually in it.  She is a graduate of the Clarion West Workshop and her fiction and poetry have appeared in Clarkesworld, Shimmer, Electric Velocipede, the Indiana Review, Margie Review, Pedestal Magazine and Rattle.  Her story “Robot” was a nominee for the 2012 Nebula Award for Best Short Story.

## Work on Escape Artists

Escape Pod

EP516 Married, read by Khaalidah Muhammad-Ali

EP451 The Aliens Made of Glass, read by Donna Scott

EP395 Robot, read by Eleiece Krawiec
Kat Day

**Kat Day** is a writer and teacher currently living in Oxfordshire, in the U.K., with her husband and their two rambunctious daughters. Their house is full of dragons, although sadly not real ones – they’re tough on the furniture.

She has been published in Daily Science Fiction and in 24 Stories, an anthology to raise money for the PTSD-related needs of the Grenfell fire survivors. You can read more of her work at [thefictionphial.wordpress.com The Fiction Phial].

## Work on Escape Artists

### Cast of Wonders

* CW336 Little Wonders 19 Bittersweet Christmas - “A Little Something For Christmas”, read by Alasdair Stuart and Chloë Yates
Joe L. Hensley

**Joe L. Hensley** (March 19, 1926 – August 27, 2007) was a lawyer, prosecuting attorney, member of the Indiana General Assembly, circuit court judge, science fiction fan, and writer of science fiction and mysteries. While working as a law student, lawyer, legislator and judge, Hensley wrote science fiction and crime fiction (and at least one auto-racing story for a pulp magazine) as **Joe L. Hensley** and **Louis J. A. Adams**.

His first fiction sale was the short story "And Not Quite Human," published in the September 1953 issue of *Beyond Fantasy Fiction*. His first published novel was *The Color of Hate* in 1960. He had 20 more novels and collections published (over half of them in the series featuring Indiana circuit judge Donald Robak, which began with 1971's *Deliver Us to Evil*) and around 100 short stories. His collaborators in science fiction included Alexei Panshin and Harlan Ellison; he co-wrote one mystery novel (*Loose Coins*) with fellow Indiana prosecuting attorney Guy M. Townsend. His last novel, *Snowbird's Blood*, was published in February 2008. Many of his mystery novels were set in the fictitious Bington, a place which combined aspects of Madison and Bloomington.

Hensley remained active in science fiction fandom throughout his life; the Hensleys were familiar faces at science fiction conventions such as Rivercon and Midwestcon. Hensley was a First Fandom "Dinosaur" (which meant he had been active in fandom prior to July 4, 1939), and received the First Fandom Hall of Fame Award in 2006.

## Work On Escape Artists

Pseudopod

* PP484 Flash on the Borderlands  XXXI: WEIRD SCIENCE HORROR!: *And Not Quite Human*, read by Spencer DiSparti
* PP495 Shut the Final Door, read by Patrick Bazile
* PP548 Lord Randy, My Son, read by Ben Phillips

PodCastle

* PC333 Argent Blood, read by Joe Scalora
J.D. Beresford

**John Davys Beresford** (17 March 1873 – 1 February 1947) was an English writer, now remembered for his early science fiction and some short stories in the horror story and ghost story genres. Beresford was a great admirer of H.G. Wells, and wrote the first critical study of Wells in 1915. His Wellsian novel *The Hampdenshire Wonder* was a major influence on Olaf Stapledon. His other science-fiction novels include *The Riddle of the Tower*, about a dystopian, hive-like society.

## Work on Escape Artists

Pseudopod

* PP420 Lost In The Fog, read by Ant Bacon
Kyle Akers

**Kyle Akers** is a voice actor from Kansas City, Missouri. He has contributed to podcasts like *Pseudopod*, *Chilling Tales for Dark Nights*, and *NoSleepPodcast*. He also produces and performs in his own improv podcast called “The Counselor.”

Prior to voice acting, Kyle toured the country as a professional musician, singing and playing bass guitar for the electro-pop band Antennas Up, which enjoyed success through several national television show placements and commercials. Since then, Kyle has dabbled in long-form improv and audio production while performing weekend gigs with Kansas City cover band The Magnetics.

## Work on Escape Artists

### Escape Pod

* EP403 Saving Alan Idle, by Katherine Mankiller

### Pseudopod

* PP317 Enzymes, by Greg Stolze
* PP347 Flash On The Borderlands XVI - Trial & Discipline: *Passing Grade*, by Paul DesCombaz
* PP403 Flash on the Borderlands XXI - The Tyranny Of Objects: *Digit*, by Gabriel R. Miller
* PP530 The Madness of Bill Dobbs: A Tale of Snuff Movies and Cannibal Cults, by Sean Pearce
* PP630 Steadfast by Trisha J. Wooldridge, read by |Alethea Kontis, **Kyle Akers** & Alex Hofelich

### Cast of Wonders

* CW312 Ten Things Sunil and I Forgot to Prepare for, When Preparing for the Apocalypse, by Shane Halbach (also as CW343, a Staff Pick)
Kristene Perron

**Kristene Perron** is a former professional stunt performer for film and television (as Kristene Kenward) and a self-described fishing goddess. Pathologically nomadic, she has lived in Japan, Costa Rica, the Cook Islands and a very tiny key in the Bahamas, just to name a few. Her stories have appeared in Canadian Storyteller Magazine, The Barbaric Yawp, Hemispheres Magazine, and Denizens of Darkness. In 2010 she won the Surrey International Writers’ Conference Storyteller Award. Kristene is a member of SF Canada. She currently resides in Nelson, BC, Canada but her suitcase is always packed.

## Work on Escape Artists

Escape Pod

* EP569 Artemis Rising 3 - Safe Harbour, read by Divya Breed
Gary Emmette Chandler

**Gary Emmette Chandler** works from his apartment in Portland as a copywriter and web developer, mostly in pajamas, with a cat nibbling at his leg. His fiction has appeared in Daily Science Fiction, Pantheon, and Fantasy Scroll, among others.

## Work on Escape Artists

Pseudopod

* PP511 Flash on the Borderlands XXXIII: Corpus *Think of the Bones*, read by Kris Straub
Garrett Cook

**Garrett Cook** is an author and editor of Bizarro, horror and cosmic horror fiction. He is the editor-in-chief of Eraserhead Press’ *New Bizarro Author Series*. He teaches Bizarro and horror writing workshops online. They’re priced with writers of all levels of experience in mind. His latest book is*Archelon Ranch*, recently rereleased by Rooster Republic Press.

## Work on Escape Artists

Pseudopod

* PP564 Hello, Handsome, read by The Word Whore
Emily B. Cataneo

**Emily B. Cataneo** is a writer of dark literary speculative fiction. She grew up in New England, lived in Boston, Massachusetts for seven years, and now lives in Berlin, Germany, where she works as a freelance journalist when she’s not writing fiction. In her spare time, she’s usually riding her bike, reading about the early twentieth century or navigating the tricky waters of learning German.
Her work has appeared in anthologies such as *Chiral Mad 2*, the Stoker-nominated *Qualia Nous*, and *Steampunk World*, as well as the magazines *Black Static*, *The Dark* and *Betwixt*. She is a 2013 graduate of the Odyssey Writing Workshop in Manchester, New Hampshire.

Emily has a story coming out in shortly in *Interfictions: A Journal of Interstitial Arts* called *The Emerald Coat and Other Wishes*. It features a deadly coat, ghosts in bathrooms, and a young woman who must decide whether to follow in her family’s peculiar footsteps.

You can find her on online, on Twitter and on Facebook all under her name.

## Work on Escape Artists

Cast of Wonders

* CW163 Speaking to Skull Kings, read by Katherine Inskip & Jeremy Carter
Evan Berkow

**Evan Berkow** lives in Brooklyn, New York, with his wife and a small menagerie consisting of two enormous gray cats and one adorable rescue dog. His fiction has also appeared in *Strange Horizons*, Escape Pod, and *Crossed Genres Magazine*. He’s a member of SFWA, Codex, and the Brooklyn Speculative Fiction Writers critique group.

## Work on Escape Artists

Escape Pod

* EP515 The Winter Festival, read by Kate Baker

Cast of Wonders

* CW257 Little Wonders 13 - Death: *Moments in the Crawl*, read by Kate Baker
Gretchen Tessmer

**Gretchen Tessmer** is a writer based in the US/Canadian borderlands of Northern New York. She writes both poetry and short fiction, with work appearing in *Nature*, *Daily Science Fiction* and *Strange Horizons*, among other venues.

## Work on Escape Artists

### Cast of Wonders

* CW329: Widow Bones Makes Her Rounds, read by Kate Baker (also as CW340, a Staff Pick)
Holly Schofield

**Holly Schofield**’s stories have appeared in dozens of publications including Lightspeed, Crossed Genres, and Tesseracts. She travels through time at the rate of one second per second, oscillating between the alternate realities of a prairie farmhouse and her remote writing cabin in the wilds of North America. For more of her work (including free stories!) and a list of forthcoming publications, see her website.

## Work at Escape Artists

Escape Pod

* EP563 Two Steps Forward, read by Adam Pracht
* EP602 Trash Talk, read by Robert Gonyo

Cast of Wonders

* CW124 Old People Rules, read by Melissa Bugaj
* CW166 Hard Passage, read by John Meagher
* CW174 Take A Good Look, read by Stephanie Morris
	+ CW194 Staff Pick 2015 – Take a Good Look, read by Stephanie Morris
* CW221 Dinovember! The Jungle Between, read by Amy H. Sturgis
* CW269 Banned Books Week: The Scent that Treason Brings, read by Katherine Inskip
Ken Liu

**Ken Liu** is an author and translator of speculative fiction, as well as a lawyer and programmer. A winner of the Nebula, Hugo, and World Fantasy Awards, he is the author of The Dandelion Dynasty, a silkpunk epic fantasy series and the collection *The Paper Menagerie and Other Stories* (2016). He also wrote the Star Wars novel, *The Legends of Luke Skywalker* (2017).

In addition, he has been published in *The Magazine of Fantasy & Science Fiction*, *Asimov’s*, *Analog*, *Clarkesworld*, *Lightspeed*, and *Strange Horizons*, among other places.

In addition to his original fiction, Ken has also translated numerous works from Chinese to English, including *The Three-Body Problem* (2014) by Liu Cixin, and “Folding Beijing” by Hao Jingfang, both Hugo winners.

He lives with his family near Boston, Massachusetts.

## Work on Escape Artists

### Escape Pod

* EP345: The Paper Menagerie, read by Rajan Khanna
* EP354: The Caretaker, read by Tom Rockwell
* EP377 Real Artists, read by Ann Leckie
* EP629 An Advanced Reader’s Picture Book of Comparative Cognition, read by Adam Pracht

### PodCastle

* PC148 State Change, read by Heather Welliver
* PC165 The Paper Menagerie, read by Rajan Khanna (**NOTE**: re-released as Best of PodCastle #1 pick, episode 516e)
* PC290: Maxwell's Demon, read by Aki Gibbons
* PCMini077 The Tome of Tourmaline read by Wilson Fowlie
* PC298: The Shadowcrafter, read by Aki Gibbons
* PC318: The MSG Golem, read by Anaea Lay
* PC359 The Litigatrix, read by Anaea Lay
* PC537 To The Moon, read by a full cast
Hollis Munroe

**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

* PP634 Flash on the Borderlands XLVI: The Accursed and the Monstrous - “Ecdysis”, by Kurt Hunt
Kris Straub

**Kris Straub** is a cartoonist and creator of the gag-a-day Chainsawsuit, the sci-fi comic Starslip, and the 1930s horror adventure Broodhollow. He’s also producing a series of short horror on YouTube called Local 58. His work can be found at studios.chainsawsuit.com. The television adaptation of his creepypasta story Candle Cove begins airing in September on the SyFy network under the name CHANNEL ZERO.

## Work on Escape Artists

Pseudopod

* PP511 Flash on the Borderlands XXXIII: Corpus *Think of the Bones*, Gary Emmette Chandler
* PP590 Emperor All, by Evan Marcroft
Jonathan Danz

**Jonathan Danz** exists in a parallel dimension that looks suspiciously like West Virginia. When he’s not trundling over rock and root on his velocipede, he labors to hammer stories out of unruly words. With the help of his wife and daughter, he manages to keep track of his car keys, his priorities, and his mind. Should you find yourself in the dusty corners of cyberspace, you may glimpse an occasional repository of his thought-mud housed at **Words & Coffee**.

## Work on Escape Artists

Escape Pod

* EP537 Honeycomb Girls, by Erin Cashier

Pseudopod

* PP423 The Ana Log, by Michael Gray Baughan
Joe Calarco

**Joe Calarco** is the Resident Sound Designer and Associate Artistic Director of **Coeurage Theatre Company**, the only exclusively Pay-What-You-Want theater in Los Angeles. He has appeared in Coeurage’s productions of **Trey Parker’s “Cannibal! the Musical”** and in the West Coast Premiere of **“The Pitchfork Disney**." Joe directed the West Coast Premiere of Chicago’s smash hit play **The Sparrow** last fall.

Joe has read a number of stories for Pseudopod:

* PP341 Immortal L.A., by Eric Czuleger
* PP370 Mary, by Krista Soli Foster
* PP416 Punksnotdead, by Eric Czuleger
* PP434B The Discussion of Mimes, by Michael Payne
* PP472 Self Portrait With Embellishments, by Ryan Dull
Heather Shaw

**Heather Shaw** is a writer, editor, bookkeeper, and lindy hopper living in Berkeley, CA with her husband and 8-year-old son, River. She’s the fiction editor at the new pro-SF zine, *Persistent Visions* (persistentvisionsmag.com). She’s had short fiction published in Strange Horizons, The Year’s Best Fantasy, Escape Pod, PodCastle, and other nice places. She’s been a featured author at the SF in SF Reading series in San Francisco and read her poetry in front of disgruntled grunge concert-goers at Lollapalooza back when it was a thing.

Heather is also the fiction editor of a new SF magazine, paying pro rates, called Persistent Visions. It will be free to read online, and she’ll be looking for fresh fiction that skirts the edges of reality, pushes the boundaries of where we’ve been, and has an updated, innovative perspective on the people we will become; she wants stories that include a diverse cast of characters, that push conventional assumptions regarding race, gender, neurodiversity, disability, and sexuality in thought-provoking, exciting new ways.

 Work on Escape Artists

Escape Pod

* EP052 Single White Farmhouse, read by The Word Whore
* EP079 Mountain, Man, read by Stephen Eley
* EP249 Little M@tch Girl, read by Mur Lafferty

Pseudopod

* PP231 (a) Pseudopod Special: The Alphabet Quartet (A Primer)

PodCastle

* PC136 The Christmas Mummy, by Heather Shaw & Tim Pratt, read by Rish Outfield
* PCBonus The Alphabet Quartet (A Primer)
* PC188 The Ghost of Christmas Possible, by Tim Pratt & Heather Shaw, read by Ian Stuart
* PC239 Catching the Spirit, by Heather Shaw & Tim Pratt, read by Big Anklevich
* PC291 Seasonal Disorder, by Heather Shaw & Tim Pratt, read by Christiana Ellis
* PC343 Elf Employment, by Heather Shaw & Tim Pratt, read by Wilson Fowlie
* PC395 Winter Jinni, by Tim Pratt & Heather Shaw, read by Dave Thompson
* PC447 It's A Wonderful Carol, by **Heather Shaw** & Tim Pratt; read by Dagny Paul
* PC501 The Christmas Abomination from Beyond the Back of the Stars, by **Heather Shaw** & Tim Pratt; read by Rish Outfield
Julian Mortimer Smith

**Julian Mortimer Smith** lives in Southwest Nova Scotia in a small lobstering town called Yarmouth. His short fiction has appeared in *Terraform*, *Daily Science Fiction*, and *AE: The Canadian Science Fiction Review*. He has stories in *Pulp Literature* and *Asimov’s Science Fiction*.

## Work on Escape Artists

Writing

PodCastle

* PC367 The Washerwoman And The Troll, read by M.K. Hobson
* PC511 The Fumblers Alley Risk Emporium, read by Wilson Fowlie
Jeremiah Tolbert

**Jeremiah Tolbert** is a web designer and a writer living in Lawrence, Kansas with his wife and son. He writes science fiction and fantasy. His work often places an emphasis on working-class characters and how genre elements impact their lives. It’s predominantly optimistic about science and is often set in the Midwest, generally, and his home state of Kansas, specifically.

## Work on Escape Artists

Escape Pod

* EP145 Instead of a Loving Heart, read by Jared Axelrod
* EP150 This, My Body, read by Stephen Eley
* EP179 Arties Aren't Stupid, read by Philippa Ballantine
* EP601 Wet Fur, read by Adam Pracht

PodCastle

* PC015 The Yeti Behind You, read by Elie Hirschman
* PC033 The Girl With the Sun In Her Head, read by Ann Leckie
* PC275 El Alma Perdida de Marguerite Espinoza, read by Brian Lieberman
Garrett Croker

**Garrett Croker** lives and writes in the San Francisco Bay Area. When he’s not a writer, he has at different times been a college English teacher, a copywriter, and a marketer. He received his MFA in creative writing from Mills College. His fiction has appeared previously in Mad Scientist Journal‘s anthology *Selfies From the End of the World*.

## Work on Escape Artists

Pseudopod

* PP506 The Shopping Cart Apocalypse, read by Alasdair Stuart
Gene Wolfe

**Gene Rodman Wolfe** (born May 7, 1931) is an American science fiction and fantasy writer. He is noted for his dense, allusive prose as well as the strong influence of his Catholic faith. He is a prolific short-story writer and novelist and has won many science fiction and fantasy literary awards.

Wolfe is most famous for *The Book of the New Sun* (four volumes, 1980–83), the first part of his *Solar Cycle*. In 1998, Locus magazine ranked it third-best fantasy novel before 1990 (after The Lord of the Rings and The Hobbit) based on a poll of subscribers that considered it and several other series as single entries.

## Work on Escape Artists

PodCastle

* PC171 The Island of Doctor Death and Other Stories, read by Ben Phillips
* PC201 Giant Episode: Golden City Far, read by Kane Lynch
* PC295 The Gunner’s Mate, read by C.S.E. Cooney and Dave Thompson
Janni Lee Simner

**Janni Lee Simner** was born aboard a pirate ship, but as soon as she came of age booked passage with a caravan bound for the Sahara, and spent the next decade as a seeker of lost cities, hidden tombs, and ancient artifacts. While hiding from assassins in the lost Library of Alexandria, however, she discovered she really preferred telling stories, and so she settled down in the Sonoran desert to write, interrupted only by the occasional map-bearing stranger or man-eating Gila monster.

## Work on Escape Artists

Escape Pod

* EP003 Three Wish Habit, read by Jonathon Sullivan
* EP034 Free Will, Baby, read by Swoopy
* EP042 Practical Villainy, read by Stephen Eley
* EP161 Alien Promises, read by Anna Eley
* EP258 Raising Jenny, read by Mur Lafferty

Pseudopod

* PP007 Drawing the Moon, read by Jonathan Chaffin
* PP014 Virginia Woods, read by Christiana Ellis
Gregg Chamberlain

**Gregg Chamberlain** lives in rural Eastern Ontario near the Canadian capital of Ottawa. He and his missus, Anne, share their home with a clowder of cats who allow the humans to believe that they are in charge. He has been a wordsmith for more than four decades, most of that spent as a full-time community newspaper reporter in Ontario and in British Columbia, his original home province. He looks forward to retiring soon to the Maritimes where he can continue writing speculative fiction and zombie filk, which includes recent works for Weirdbook magazine and for the Bard’s Song Vol. 1 anthology from Sinister Grin Press.

## Work on Escape Artists

Cast of Wonders

* CW277 Little Wonders 15: Monster Mayhem - *Got Cookies?,* read by Dani Daly, Katherine Inskip, Marguerite Kenner & Cheyenne Wright
Eric Luke

**Eric Luke** is the screenwriter of the Joe Dante film *Explorers*, which is currently in development as a remake, the comic books *Ghost* and *Wonder Woman*, and wrote and directed the *Not Quite Human* films for Disney TV. His current project *Interference*, a meta horror audiobook about an audiobook… that kills, is available free on **iTunes** and at **Quillhammer.com**.

## Work on Escape Artists

Escape Pod

* EP574 Yosemite, by D. S. McNab
* EP580 Nozizwe and Almahdi, by J. R. Dawson
* EP617 Artemis Rising: A Cure for Homesickness, by S. L. Scott
* EP635 After Midnight at the ZapStop, by Matthew Claxton

Pseudopod

* PP185 Charlie Harmer Looks Back, by Brendan Detzner
* PP192 The Radejastians, by David Nickle
* PP210 The Nimble Men, by Glen Hirshberg
* PP221 Lives, by John Grant

* PP263 The Republic of the Southern Cross, by Valery Bryusov
* PP306 Night Fishing, by Ray Cluley
* PP335 Charlie Harmer’s Day Off, by Brendan Detzner
* PP356 The Night Wire, by H.F. (Henry Ferris) Arnold
* PP597 Fool's Fire, by Tim Pratt

PodCastle

* PC104 The Dog King, by Holly Black
* PCMini056 The Masque of the Red Death, by Edgar Allan Poe
* PC152 The Hortlak, by Kelly Link
* PC160 After October, by Ben Burgis
* PC177 The Fall of the House of Usher, by Edgar Allan Poe
* PC211 The Axiom of Choice, by David W. Goldman
* PC244 The Very Strange Weird of Endart Sscowth, by Scott H. Andrews
* PC265 The Copperroof War, by Megan Arkenberg
* PC299 The Little Room, by Madeline Yale Wynne
* PC320 Baba Makosh, by M.K. Hobson
* PC463 A Dozen by Dunsany: *The Tomb of Pan;* by Lord Dunsany
John Trevillian

**John Trevillian** is an English novelist, poet, shaman and award-winning author of three dystopian sci-fi novels (**The A-Men**, **The A-Men Return** and **Forever A-Men**), plus writer of many other short stories, poetry collections and travel journals. He is also creator of the **Talliston House & Gardens** project, which could use your support – please see: **Trevillian.com** & **Talliston.com**.

## Work on Escape Artists

Pseudopod

* PP323 The Trinket, by P.G. Bell
* PP385 Flash on the Borderlands XX: Community: *Mallecho,* by Stephen Willcott

PodCastle

* PC164 A Hunter’s Ode to His Bait, by Carrie Vaughn
* PC234 Giant Episode: The Tricks of London, by Elizabeth Bear
J. R. Blackwell

**J. R. Blackwell** is a photojournalist and fine art photographer. Her work has been published in newspapers, magazines and on the web. Her most recent project, In Their Own Worlds, featured photographs of authors in the worlds of their novels. J.R. was a founder of the Voices of Tomorrow podcast, along with Jared Axelrod.

## Work on Escape Artists

Escape Pod

Author

* EPBonus Flash Fiction Contest Honorable Mention: From Liquid to Glass, read by Rachel Swirsky

Narrator

* EP059 Anyone Can Whistle, by David Walton
* EP083 Ulla, by Daniel Schwabauer; read by Jared Axelrod, J.R. Blackwell
* EP206 Rogue Farm, by Charles Stross; read with a full cast

Pseudopod

* PP017 Upon The Midnight Clear, by Stephen Dedman
Abigail Hilton

**Abigail Hilton** is a nurse anesthetist and writer who lives in Florida. Her works are primarily set in the world of Panamindorah and are available as free audio downloads or as eBooks from Amazon, B&N and the like. You can listen to her trilogy, The Prophet of Panamindorah, for free.

## Work on Escape Artists

Cast of Wonders

* CW001 A Suitable Pet, read by Summer Brooks
* CW049 Miranda and the Butterfly, read by Graeme Dunlop
John Purfield

**John Purfield** is a 28 year old Army veteran living in Denver, Colorado with my family and two dogs.

“Behold, The Drowning” was first made available to the public via the “No Sleep” section of reddit.com. John says: “I would like the audience to consider, while listening to this story, the implications of sensory deprivation on fear. Loss of sight has been explored many times over; it is pivotal to our primordial fear of the dark. Loss of sound, however, receives far less attention and is, potentially, more horrifying for reasons stated by the story’s protagonist.”

## Work on Escape Artists

Pseudopod

* PP538 Flash on the Borderlands XXXVII: Higher Beings Command: *Behold, The Drowning,* read by Brian Lieberman
K. A. Patterson

**K. A. (or Kay) Patterson** lives in the outskirts of Pittsburgh. She is the creator and senior editor of AlienSkin Magazine. Her tales have appeared in numerous print and online magazines, with her most work appearing or upcoming in Murky Depths, From the Asylum, Apex Digest; and in the anthologies, *Read By Dawn* *with Ramsey Campbell*, *Black Box*, and *FlashSpec II*.

## Work on Escape Artists

Pseudopod

* PP025 Fetching Pepé, read by Mur Lafferty
Jeff Hite

**Jeff Hite**, former assistant editor of Cast of Wonders, is a writer from Western New York, and if you have heard his voice before it is probably from another great fiction magazine, Flagship Magazine, where you might have also heard this story. You can learn more about him at his website and you can follow him on Twitter.

## Work on Escape Artists

* CW193 Princesses Do Not Breathe Fire, by Sarina Dorie
Jennifer Lee Rossman

**Jennifer Lee Rossman** is a science fiction geek from New York, where she crochets, watches Doctor Who, and threatens to run over people with her wheelchair. Her short story “Scrapefoot” is featured in *Circuits & Slippers*, an anthology of sci-fi fairy tale re-tellings.

## Work on Escape Artists

### Cast of Wonders

* CW257 Little Wonders 13 - Death: “Chrysalis”, read by Stephanie Morris
* CW332 Dinovember – The Good, the Bad, and the Utahraptor, read by Sandra Espinoza
Henry Kuttner

**Henry Kuttner** was known for his literary prose and worked in close collaboration with his wife, C. L. Moore. They met through their association with the “Lovecraft Circle”, a group of writers and fans who corresponded with H. P. Lovecraft. Their work together spanned the 1940s and 1950s and most of the work was credited to pseudonyms, mainly Lewis Padgett and Lawrence O’Donnell. Both freely admitted that they collaborated in part because his page rate was higher than hers. In fact, several people have written or said that she wrote three stories which were published under his name. “Clash by Night” and The Portal in the Picture (Beyond Earth’s Gates) are sometimes attributed to her.

L. Sprague de Camp, who knew Kuttner and Moore well, has stated that their collaboration was so seamless that, after a story was completed, it was often impossible for either Kuttner or Moore to recall who had written what. According to de Camp, it was typical for either partner to break off from a story in mid-paragraph or even mid-sentence, with the latest page of the manuscript still in the typewriter. The other spouse would routinely continue the story where the first had left off. They alternated in this manner as many times as necessary until the story was finished.

## Work on Escape Artists

Pseudopod

* PP600 The Graveyard Rats, read by Robert C. Eccles
John M. Shade

**John M. Shade** was born in Central America and grew up all across the U.S. as a Navy brat. He received his B.A. in creative writing from the University of Houston, and his MFA from the University of Southern Maine. He also graduated the Viable Paradise writer’s workshop on Martha’s Vineyard.

His work has appeared in Gold Dust Magazine, Daily Science Fiction, and Giganotosaurus, among others. He writes short stories, novels, and comics. He now lives in Houston, Texas, with his wife, daughter, a cat, and a dog, and tries to stay out of the sun’s way when summer comes around.

## Work on Escape Artists

Writing

PodCastle

* PC347 Flash Fiction Extravaganza: Great Power, Greater Responsibilities, *The Colors*, read by Sean D. Sorrentino
Jen Finelli

**Jen Finelli** is a professional author, content-consultant, and ghost-writer deeply in love. Because she is also a med student, and doctors are weird, she tries to write things that make people leak bodily fluids. Like tears of hope. Or “OMG-THAT-WAS-AWESOME-I-JUST-WET-MY-PANTS.” Or the inspired sweat of fighting for what matters.

Explosive things, kind superheroes, crude secret agents, sparkly fairies, biochemistry, guns, facts, and offensive gods show up in her pages, and sometimes that gets her published or gets her money or gets her in trouble. If you want to get to know her a little, or tell her about the things YOU like, you should follow her on twitter. You’ll get a free short story if you do.

## Work on Escape Artists

Escape Pod

* EP518 Brain Worms and White Whales, read by J.S. Arquin
Katherine Sparrow

**Katherine Sparrow** lives with her partner in Santa Cruz which she says “is a bit too sunny and mellow for her over-caffeinated Seattle soul.” She’s a graduate of the Clarion West Writer’s Workshop, where she learned many excellent things. She has been selling short stories here and there and is currently writing a book about teenagers and the monsters who love them. Katherine especially likes writing books, because that’s where you get to do big things. Her work has been published in Escape Pod, PodCastle, Andromeda Spaceways Inflight Magazine and many others.

## Work on Escape Artists

Escape Pod

* EPBonus Flash Fiction Contest Honorable Mention: , read by Rachel Swirsky
* EP226 Pirate Solutions, read by full cast: Sarah Tolbert, Kate Baker, Nate Periat, Steve Eley

PodCastle

* PCMini008 Believe, read by Ann Leckie
* PCMini030 Rotations and Consequences, read by Rachel Swirsky
* PC083 The Petrified Girl, read by Marguerite Croft
* PC130 Chemical Magic, read by John Meagher
* PCMini058 Before the Uprising, read by Jen Rhodes
* PCMini061 The Jacob Miracle, read by Ann Leckie

Cast of Wonders

* CW008 Alienation (Part 1), read by Graeme Dunlop
	+ CW009 Alienation (Part 2)
Karen Runge

**KAREN RUNGE** is a South African who has been living in China since 2008. She was first formally published in the South African Science Fiction and Horror magazine, **‘Something Wicked’** in 2007, twice in the South African ezine **‘iBhuku’** and she is a huge fan of the horror genre in all the forms it takes. Another short story of hers, **‘When Layla Wakes’**, recently appeared in issue 17 (May-June) of **Horrorbound**. When she has trouble writing, she usually tries to paint.

Karen recommends the **Something Wicked SF & Horror magazine Anthologies**! Volume 1 is available for purchase at Amazon and also at Something Wicked’s website.
Jack London

**Jack London** (1876-1916) was an American writer best known for outdoor adventures like *The Call of the Wild*, many of them permeated with a sense of terror and the sublime. As a young man, London dropped out of the University of California to tramp the country, sail the seas, and brave the hardships of Alaska’s Klondike gold rush. Much of his fiction celebrates a brawny life force; his heroes triumph over the extremes of physical adversity through raw strength and will, or else they succumb, in the end, to the pitiless forces of nature. London eventually became a convert to socialism and, in **THE IRON HEEL** (1907), depicted a 1930s America ruled by a fascist dictatorship. Yet unquestionably his most fiendish villains are the shadowy revolutionary cult in **THE MINIONS OF MIDAS** (1901), who, preaching an extreme form of Social Darwinism, attempt to extort millions of dollars from the nation’s industrialists by the random murder of scores of ordinary citizens. Mankind, in London’s fiction, can be every bit as pitiless as nature.

## Work on Escape Artists

Pseudopod

* PP366 To Build a Fire, read by Wilson Fowlie
* PP589 Flash on the Borderlands XLII - Misanthropes: *Moon Face,* read by B.J. Harrison
Katherine Inskip

**Katherine Inskip** is assistant editor of Cast of Wonders who teaches astrophysics for a living and spends her spare time populating the universe with worlds of her own. She is addicted to chocolate and Japanese logic puzzles.

## Work on Escape Artists

### Writing

#### Cast of Wonders

* CW237 Little Wonders 10 - Flash Fiction Contest Winners: “A Coat of Salt and Sand”, read by Alasdair Stuart
* CW271 Banned Books Week: The Lives Beneath, read by Dani Daly

### Narration

#### Escape Pod

* EP658 Beatrix Released, by Shaenon K. Garrity

### Pseudopod

* PP624 Flash on the Borderlands XLV: Personal Narratives - “People Watching”, by Alex Patterson
* PP628 A Spider Trapped in Wax, by Matt Dovey

#### Cast of Wonders

* CW140 Of Pumpkin Soup and Other Demons, by Natalia Theodoridou
* CW163 Speaking to Skull Kings, by Emily B. Cataneo; read by **Katherine Inskip** and Jeremy Carter
* CW178 Home Isn't, by Kelly Sandoval (also as CW190, a staff pick)
* CW208 Questing for Princesses, by Amanda C. Davis (also as CW229, a staff pick)
* CW210 Little Wonders 8 – Embracing Change: “When the Planets Left”, by J. J. Litke
* CW214 Banned Books Week: The Price of Stories, by Shannon Connor Winward
* CW237 Little Wonders 10 - Flash Fiction Contest Winners: “More Than Machines Will Fall to Rust,” by Rachael K. Jones
* CW241 Artemis Rising 3 - Mr. Quacky in Space, by Amanda Helms
* CW256 Phalium Arium Ssp, Amans, by Victoria Sandbrook
* CW260 Contractual Obligations, by Jaime O. Mayer
* CW264 Little Wonders 14 - Lyrical Beauty: “The Best Busker in the World”, by R. K. Duncan
* CW269 Banned Books Week: The Scent that Treason Brings, by Holly Schofield (also as CW285, a staff pick)
* CW277 Little Wonders 15: Monster Mayhem: “Got Cookies?”, by Gregg Chamberlain; read by full cast
* CW300 The Death Knight, the Dragon and the Damsel, by Melion Traverse; read by Dani Daly, Graeme Dunlop, **Katherine Inskip** and Cheyenne Wright
* CW264 Little Wonders 18 - Transformation: “A Cradle of Vines”, by Jennifer Mace
* CW325 Banned Books Week: The Librarian, by Maria Haskins (re-released as CW346, a 2018 Staff Pick)
Kelly Link

**Kelly Link** is the author of the collections *Get in Trouble*, *Stranger Things Happen*, *Magic for Beginners*, and *Pretty Monsters*. She and Gavin J. Grant have co-edited a number of anthologies, including **Monstrous Affections** and **Steampunk!**. Her short stories have been published in **The Magazine of Fantasy and Science Fiction**, **Tin House**, **A Public Space**,**McSweeney’s**, **One Story**, **The Best American Short Stories**, and **Prize Stories: The O. Henry Awards**. Link was born in Miami, Florida. She currently lives with her husband and daughter in Northampton, Massachusetts.

## Work on Escape Artists

Pseudopod

* PP427 Carnation, Lily, Lily, Rose, read by Anson Mount (for Artemis Rising 2015)

PodCastle

* PC120 Some Zombie Contingency Plans (fixed), read by Norm Sherman
* PC152 The Hortlak, read by Eric Luke
* PC357 The Specialist's Hat, read by Elizabeth Green Musselman
James D. Macdonald

**James D. Macdonald** is an American author and critic who lives in New Hampshire with his wife and frequent collaborator, Dr. Debra Doyle. He works in several genres, concentrating on fantasy, but also writing science fiction, and mystery and media tie-ins.

## Work on Escape Artists

Escape Pod

* EP006 Jenny Nettles, by Debra Doyle, **James D. Macdonald**; read by Stephen Eley
J.R. Troughton

**James Ross Troughton** is a writer of fantasy fiction who lives and works in Essex, England.

After graduating from the University of Leicester in 2007, he moved to Seoul, South Korea, where he worked in language academies for three years before returning to the UK. He now works in Primary education. He likes cats.

J.R.'s story The Mothgate was read by Stephanie Morris on Cast of Wonders episode 179.
Jason Arquin

**Jason (J. S.) Arquin** is a writer, actor, musician and stilt-walker. He has performed and traveled all over the world, and has lived in many places, including New Jersey, San Francisco, and Greece. He currently resides in his favorite place of them all, Portland, Oregon, where he gleefully rides his bike in the rain year round.

Jason also produces a speculative fiction podcast called Overcast, which you can find on iTunes or Stitcher. Several *Cast of Wonders* alum authors have appeared on Overcast, including Amanda C. Davis and Anatoly Belilovsky.

## Work on Escape Artists

Escape Pod

* EP518 Brain Worms and White Whales by Jen Finelli

 Cast of Wonders

* CW180 The New Kid Is Not An Alien by Bert Lowe
* CW207 Millions Times Eight, by Jake Walters
Kate Jonez

**KATE JONEZ** is a student of all things scary and when she isn’t writing she loves to collect objects for her cabinet of curiosities, research obscure and strange historical figures and photograph weirdness in Southern California where she lives with a very nice man and a little dog who is also very nice but could behave a little bit better. She writes dark fantasy fiction.**Ceremony of Flies** published by **DarkFuse** is available in **limited edition hardcover and ebook**. Her **Bram Stoker Award** nominated novel **Candy House** is available at Amazon in **print**and **ebook**. She is also chief editor at **Omnium Gatherum** a small press dedicated to publishing unique dark fantasy, weird fiction or literary dark fiction in **print & ebook**. Three **Omnium Gatherum** books have been nominated for **Shirley Jackson Awards**.
Jonathan Edelstein

**Jonathan Edelstein** is 44, married with cat, and living in New York City.  His work has appeared in Strange Horizons and the Lacuna Journal and is forthcoming in Beneath Ceaseless Skies.  When not writing, he practices law and hopes someday to get it right.

## Work on Escape Artists

Escape Pod

* EP538 The Starsmith, read by James Odcombe
George Cleveland

**George Cleveland** lives in Tamworth, NH where he cares for cats with Attention Deficit Disorder. He is the Executive Director of the Gibson Center for Senior Services in North Conway. For many years, George was known as **The Voice of the Valley** on New Hampshire radio, where he conducted over 3500 interviews with newsmakers from all parts of the world – George has spoken with most major Presidential candidates, a representative of an interplanetary confederation and many noted authors and musicians. An avid collector of tales and legends, he sniffs out new hauntings and reports of long lost treasure. He has frequently written on people and places of interest, including musicians and artists and has appeared before numerous historical and school groups in the United States and Hawai’i speaking about his grandfather, former President **Grover Cleveland**. He was featured on **C-SPAN’s ‘American Presidents’** series when they broadcast from Cleveland’s birthplace in Caldwell, New Jersey.

## Work on Escape Artists

Pseudopod

* PP286 The Bee Charmer of Beckett Falls, by Patty Templeton; read by **George Cleveland** & Julie Hoverson
* PP319 Cell Call, by Marc Laidlaw
* PP414 The Photographer’s Tale, by Daniel Mills
Emma Smailes

Emma hails from the banks of the not so coaley Tyne, which she loves as only a native Geordie Lass can. She enjoys fiction of almost all types, plotting, though never acting, to take over the world, and having sparkly fingernails. She does not have a cat, but does have a tiny cuddly toy hedgehog called Optic, who goes everywhere with her.
Joe Pitkin

**Joe Pitkin** has lived, taught, and studied in England, Hungary, Mexico, and most recently at Clark College in Vancouver, Washington. He has done biological field work on the slopes of Mount St. Helens, and he lives in Portland, Oregon, with his wife and daughters.

## Work on Escape Artists

PodCastle

PC371 The Fairy Ring, read by Steve Anderson
Karen Osborne

**Karen Osborne** lives in Baltimore with two violins, an autoharp, four cameras, a husband and a bonkers orange cat. She’s been a reporter, a wedding videographer, a newspaper photographer, a high school English teacher, a Starfleet captain, and a Scottish fiddler. She is a graduate of Viable Paradise and the Clarion Writers’ Workshop and has never been whaling, even if she can play you all the tunes.

## Work on Escape Artists

Escape Pod

* EP603 An Equal Share of the Bone, read by Ibba Armancas
Fredric Brown

**Fredric Brown** (October 29, 1906 – March 11, 1972) was an American science fiction and mystery writer. He is known for his use of humor and for his mastery of the "short short" form—stories of 1 to 3 pages, often with ingenious plotting devices and surprise endings, such as the masterpiece *Sentry*. Humor and a somewhat postmodern outlook carried over into his novels as well. One of his stories, *Arena*, is officially credited for an adaptation as an episode of the American television series Star Trek.

## Work on Escape Artists

Escape Pod

* EP423 Arena, read by Bill Bowman
K. C. Ball

**K.C. Ball** lives in Seattle with her wife, Rachael Buchanan. Her speculative fiction has been published in various online and print magazines, including Analog, Beneath Ceaseless Skies, Daily Science Fiction and Lightspeed. Some of her stories are collected in Snapshots From A Black Hole & Other Oddities from Hydra House Books. K.C. is a 2010 graduate of the Clarion West writers workshop and a 2009 winner of the Hubbard Writers of the Future award.

## Work on Escape Artists

Escape Pod

* EP454 Stop Me if You've Heard This One, read by Dani Cutler

PodCastle

* PC462 Artemis Rising 3 - Stay, read by Tina Connolly
Joel Arnold

**Joel Arnold** lives in Minnesota. His writing has appeared in dozens of publications, including **Weird Tales** and the Cemetery Dance anthology, **SHIVERS VII**.

## Work on Escape Artists

Pseudopod

* PP010 Turista, read by Jason Adams
* PP021 Fetal Position, read by Jason Adams
* PP030 Seller’s Market, read by Matthew Wayne Selznick
* PP039 Some Things Don’t Wash Off, read by Ben Phillips
* PP053 The Apple Tree Man, read by Ben Phillips
* PP071 The Intrusion, read by Ben Phillips
* PP119 Pran’s Confession, read by Ben Phillips
* PP134 Bait, read by Cheyenne Wright
* PP453 The Toyol, read by Misty Dawn
Jenn Reese

**Jenn Reese** writes science fiction and fantasy adventure stories for readers of all ages. Her first novel, *Jade Tiger*, is a kung fu action-adventure romance, and her latest books, the Above World trilogy for young readers, feature bioengineered mermaids in a post-apocalyptic future. Jenn is also a graphic designer, a (lapsed) martial artist, and a very occasional voice actor. When she’s not exploring her new home city of Portland, she’s playing video games, learning to knit, or watching far too much TV.

## Work on Escape Artists

Writing

PodCastle

* PC347 Flash Fiction Extravaganza: Great Power, Greater Responsibilities, *The Sea City Six (Where are They Now?)*, read by Mur Lafferty
Kate Lechler

**Kate Lechler** teaches British Literature at the University of Mississippi and writes science-fiction and fantasy from her home in in Oxford, MS, where she lives with her husband, a dog, a cat, and seven fish. Her work has been previously published in the NonBinary Review, Dear Robot: An Anthology of Epistolary Science Fiction, and Illumen, and she reviews fantasy and science fiction for FantasyLiterature.com. She loves gardening, singing jazz, and watching bad (and good!) TV.

## Work on Escape Artists

PodCastle

* PC432 The Beautiful Bird Sits No Longer Singing In The Nest, read by Stephanie Morris
J.R.Hamantaschen

In J.R.'s first collection, *You Shall Never Know Security*, he included a publication history of all the stories contained therein, thinking that was the thing to do. Nowadays, he's not so sure if anyone cares about that sort of stuff. Instead he'll just provide a hat tip to some venues where his work has been published or produced, such as the Drabblecast, Pseudopod, Nossa Morte, 19 Nocturne Boulevard, The Harrow, and Revolution Science Fiction. He appreciates them (and the other magazines that have published his work, some now long-departed) for their support.

Writing is not how he supports himself financially, which explains the general delay in his output. He's sometimes asked if he'll ever consider writing full-time, to which he's amassed considerable pithy responses. (One such response: “I have, but I’ve gotten used to eating daily.”) Until the market improves dramatically for depressing, despairing weird fiction that appears exclusively in small press magazines or podcasts and is published by an author with a cookie-inspired nom de plume (google “hamantaschen”), then part-time his writing shall remain.

## Work On Escape Artsists

Pseudopod

* PP141 Flash on the Borderlands I:*"Jordan, when are you going to settle down, get married and have us some children?"*, read by Ben Phillips
Kat Howard

**Kat Howard** lives in New Hampshire. Her short fiction has been nominated for the World Fantasy Award, anthologized in year’s best and best of collections, and performed on NPR. Her debut novel, Roses and Rot, will be out from Saga Press in May.

## Work on Escape Artists

PodCastle

* PC286 The Calendar of Saints, read by Amal El-Mohtar
* PC306 Flash Fiction Special – Tales of Strange Inspiraiton: *Beauty and Disappearance*, read by Ann Leckie
* PC410 The Saint of the Sidewalks, read by Eve Upton
Jason Adams

**Jason Adams** is the mastermind behind Random Signal. It is the bee's knees.The Random Signal podcast is equal parts geek talk and indie rock. This includes, but is not limited to, comics, movies, games, beer, giant squids, hoboes, Airwolf, and quirky independent music from North Carolina and points beyond.

## Work on Escape Artists

Escape Pod

* EP261 Only Springtime When She's Gone, by Eugie Foster
* EP267 Planetfall, by Michael C. Lea
* EP273 Dead's End to Middleton, by Natania Barron

Pseudopod

* PP010 Turista, by Joel Arnold
* PP021 Fetal Position, by Joel Arnold
Kim Newman

**KIM NEWMAN** is a novelist, critic and broadcaster. His fiction includes **THE QUORUM**, **LIFE’S LOTTERY** and **PROFESSOR MORIARTY: THE HOUND OF THE D’URBERVILLES**; his non-fiction includes **NIGHTMARE MOVIES** and BFI Classics studies of**CAT PEOPLE** and **DOCTOR WHO**. He has written plays for the theatre (**The Hallowe’en Sessions**) and radio (**Cry-Babies**), is a contributing editor to **Sight & Sound** and **Empire** magazines and reviews in **Video Watchdog**. His official web-site can be found **here**. He is also on Twitter as @AnnoDracula and his latest novel is **ANNO DRACULA: JOHNNY ALUCARD**, fourth in the successful **ANNO DRACULA** series. His next novel, **AN ENGLISH GHOST STORY**, was released in 2014.

## Work on Escape Artists

Pseudopod

* PP374 Flash on the Borderlands XIX: Blood On The Tracks – Departure, Transit, Arrival: *The Terminus*, read by Siobhan Gallichan
* PP498 The Only Ending We Have, read by Christiana Ellis