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Grant Baciocco

**Grant Baciocco** is a content creator and performer on the forefront of all things new media. He then went on to work for the Jim Henson Company as the creator, producer and host of the Henson.com Podcast. His comedy music act, Throwing Toasters, has toured clubs and colleges across the country, played a sold-out show at the Tokyo Dome in Japan, had several #1 hits on the Dr. Demento show and opened for “Weird Al” Yankovic. For 5 years he served as an associate producer on Joel Hodgson’s *Cinematic Titanic*. He can also be seen weekly as a ringside interviewer on Championship Wrestling from Hollywood.  He is also the creator/owner of Saturday Morning Media, a trans-media company focused on creating quality family friendly content.

## Work on Escape Artists

Escape Pod

* EP259 The Lady or the Tiger, by J. M. McDermott
* EP315 Clockwork Fagin, by Cory Doctorow

Pseudopod

* PP035 Locked Doors, by Stephanie Burgis
J. Lily Corbie

**J. Lily Corbie** is a lifelong horror and fantasy enthusiast. She’s passionate about mythology and folklore and loves bats, bones, butterflies, and octopuses. She lives with three cats and a dog, and you can follow her on Facebook and Twitter.

## Work on Escape Artists

Pseudopod

* PP479 Like Dolls, read by Kim Lakin-Smith

Cast of Wonders

* CW237 Little Wonders 10 - Flash Fiction Contest Winners: *She and I*, read by Dani Daly
Hunter Gray

**Hunter Gray** is a poet/short-storyist living in northern New Jersey where she teaches literature and creative writing. She is a graduate of Seton Hall University with a degree in English Literature and her publication credits include **Chavez** magazine. She is currently working on a collection of short stories and has recently completed her first book of poems, **AMERICAN GROTESQUE**.

## Work on Escape Artists

Pseudopod

* PP380 Abigail, read by Alethea Kontis
Kaylin Norman-Slack

**Kaylin Norman-Slack** works during his days as a support engineer, but spends his time voice acting, composing music and making games. You can find his music on Sound Cloud under “Mr. Game and Audio.”

## Work on Escape Artists

PodCastle

* PC527 Flash Fiction Extravaganza! In the Beginning...: *Of the Dreams Yet to Come,* by Paul Alex Gray
Julie Steinbacher

**Julie Steinbacher** is fully human, whatever that means. She lives in Raleigh, North Carolina, where she is an MFA candidate at North Carolina State University. She is a graduate of the Clarion West Workshop, and her fiction appears in Terraform.

## Work on Escape Artists

Escape Pod

* EP482 Chimeras, read by Jessica Dubish (Artemis Rising 2015)

PodCastle

* PC404 Territory, read by Maura McHugh and Kim Rogers (Artemis Rising 2016)
K. A. Teryna

**K. A. Teryna** is an author, screenwriter, and illustrator. Since her first publication in 2008, she has won multiple awards and had a number of her stories published in Russian Sci-Fi magazines *Esli*, *Mir Fantastiki*, and other Russian publications. She lives in Moscow.

Her story *Madame Félidé Elopes* was written for a contest, and was based on an original painting by Yekaterina Yeliseeva.

## Work on Escape Artists

PodCastle

* PC428 Madame Félidé Elopes, translated by Anatoly Belilovsky; read by Tina Connolly
Kane Lynch

Kane Lynch is a cartoonist based in Oakland. Kane’s comics and illustrations have appeared in publications including Slate, Cracked, and Psychology Today, but he is best known for his comics *Delicate Lies (*a memoir about family secrets), and *Aerial Structures*(a Bay Area conspiracy thriller). When he’s not drawing up a storm, Kane also does comics workshops and one-on-one tutoring with students of all ages. If all else fails, he plans to become a model for stock photos.

## Work on Escape Artists

Pseudopod

* PP282 Flash On The Borderlands XI - Fearful Fashions

PodCastle

* PC077 Nine Sundays in a Row, by Kris Dikeman
* PCMini055 Ghost Market, by Greg van Eekhout
* PC149 Honing Sebastian, by Elizabeth Engstrom
* PC201 Giant Episode: Golden City Far, by Gene Wolfe
Joe R. Lansdale

**JOE R. LANSDALE** has written over thirty books, and numerous short stories. He has won a multitude of awards, including the Edgar for his novel **THE BOTTOMS**, and his novella **BUBBA HO-TEP** was made into the popular film starring Bruce Campbell. He is currently working on the adaptation of his popular Hap and Leonard characters to the small screen. Joe blogs **here** and you can also follow him on **Facebook**.

## Work on Escape Artists

Pseudopod

* PP344 The Pit, read by John Bell
* PP353 Flash on the Borderlands XVII: Keeping Up Appearances
* PP444 Boys Will Be Boys, read by Kevin M. Hayes
Jay Caselberg

**Jay Caselberg** is an Australian science fiction writer. He has also used the name 'James Hartley' for some of his short fiction. His four novels to date are the Jack Stein series, comprising *Wyrmhole*, *Metal Sky*, *The Star Tablet* and *Wall of Mirrors*, published 2003-2006 by Roc Books. Subsequent works appeared mostly in the small press comprising "Empties", "The Jackal Dreaming" as J.A Caselberg, "The Memory Box" and "Breath" as Jackson Creed. His short fiction continues to appear in many anthologies and magazines.

## Work on Escape Artists

Escape Pod

* EP011 Herd Mentality, read by Stephen Eley
	+ EP625 Flashback Friday: Herd Mentality, read by Serah Eley
* EP365 The Garden of Earthly Delights, read by Mat Weller

Pseudopod

* PP245 Blue Eyes, read by Jen Williams
Jeff Ronner

**Jeff Ronner** is a voice actor, audio engineer, and sound designer.

His work has appeared in radio and TV commercials on this planet, and he’s considering doing a series of translations with an advertising group on Theta Prime. But they’re demanding several body parts from him as a retainer, so he’s currently keeping a low profile traveling throughout Australia.

## Work on Escape Artists

Escape Pod

* EP439 Cradle and Ume, by Geoffrey W. Cole
* EP478 People of the Shell, by Brian Trent
* EP513 Adaptation and Predation, by Auston Habershaw
Kurt Hunt

**Kurt Hunt** was formed in the swamps and abandoned gravel pits of post-industrial Michigan. He is, in no particular order, a father, a lawyer, a husband, a human, and a daydreamer. Sometimes he writes things, but usually he doesn’t.

His short fiction has been published at Strange Horizons, Beneath Ceaseless Skies, PodCastle, Orson Scott Card’s InterGalactic Medicine Show, Kaleidotrope, and more. He is also a co-author of Archipelago, a collaborative serial fantasy adventure.

## Work on Escape Artists

### Pseudopod

* PP634 Flash on the Borderlands XLVI: The Accursed and the Monstrous - “Ecdysis”, read by Hollis Munroe

### PodCastle

* PCMini92 Chatter the Teeth, read by Leeman Kessler
Joe Scalora

**Joe Scalora** is a senior marketing manager at Del Rey Books and Del Rey Star Wars.

He is a curator of Geek pursuits and has narrated for Pseudopod and The Double Shadow, the Clark Ashton Smith podcast.

## Work on Escape Artists

Escape Pod

* EP495 Aficionado, by David Brin

Pseudopod

* PP352 Enough with the Crazy, by Emile Dayne
* PP461 Flash On The Borderlands XXVIII - Britshock II: "Run Forever," by Andrew Reid
* PP478 Jay's Place, by E. Lee McVicar

PodCastle

* PC333 Argent Blood, by Joe L. Hensley
* PCMini079 The Dolphin, by Dave Bishop
* PC377 Ray, by Mario Milosevic
Gwendolyn Clare

**Gwendolyn Clare** is a New Englander transplanted to North Carolina. She holds a BA in Ecology, a BS in Geophysics, a PhD in Mycology, and swears she’s done collecting acronyms. Her short fiction has appeared in Clarkesworld, Asimov’s, Analog, and Beneath Ceaseless Skies, among others.

## Work on Escape Artists

Escape Pod

* EP558 Holding the Ghosts, read by Dionne Obeso
Mike Norris

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* M.C. Norris
M.C. Norris is an active member of the Horror Writers’ Association, with nineteen published short stories, and five published novels to his credit: Krengel & the Krampusz (Severed Press, 2014), Deep Devotion (Severed Press, 2014), The Dread Owba Coo-Coo (Severed Press, 2014), God of the Dead (Severed Press, 2015), and Falling Prey (Severed Press, 2015). The nineteen published short stories of M.C. Norris appear in a variety of magazines and anthologies, including: Withersin, Wrong World DVD, Brainharvest Magazine, Pseudopod, Dead Bait, and Malicious Deviance. Mike also won 5th inChizine/Leisure Books 13th Annual Short Story Contest.
Emily Hickson

**Emily Hickson** is a newcomer in the voice acting world, an Australian student studying Fine Art and Illustration. Her techniques and past research endeavours include printmaking, sculpture, digging up dead languages and solving old codes. She once illustrated a book about Alfred Tennyson meeting the Kraken, and has always counted on sci-fi to inspire her when artist’s block attacks.

## Work on Escape Artists

Escape Pod

* EP505 Falling Leaves, by Liz Argall
John Scalzi

**John Scalzi** is an American science fiction author, online writer, and former president of the Science Fiction and Fantasy Writers of America. He is best known for his Old Man's War series, three novels of which have been nominated for the Hugo Award, and for his blog Whatever, where he has written on a number of topics since 1998. He won the Hugo Award for Best Fan Writer in 2008 based predominantly on that blog, which he has also used for several prominent charity drives. His novel Redshirts won the 2013 Hugo Award for Best Novel. He has written non-fiction books and columns on diverse topics such as finance, video games, films, astronomy, and writing, and served as a creative consultant for the TV series Stargate Universe.

## Work on Escape Artists

Escape Pod

* EP032 Alien Animal Encounters, read by a full cast: Serah Eley, Anna Eley, Scott Janssens, Deborah Green, Jonathon Sullivan, Marilyn Fuller
Gregory Austin

**Gregory Austin** balances time between writing and voice acting in Buffalo, NY. As a writer, he’s contributed to various comedic websites including Collegehumor.com; he’s a writer, treasurer and performer for Aural Stage Studios, a Buffalo based audio drama company, and is also a blogger for hire.

As a voice artist he has narrated half a dozen audiobooks and shared his talents on podcasts, where he’s done anything from narrating stories to relating personal musings. Previously, he was head writer and featured performer for a fun-loving improvisational group called The Human Touch, which wowed slightly inebriated audiences across smoky club scenes in the “second city” he called home: Chicago, Illinois.

Gregory also enjoys sandwiches, comics and genuine people.

He read Greg van Eekhout's story The Authenticator for PodCastle episode 399.
Jake Walters

**Jake Walters** has been published in several places, including once before here at Cast of Wonders. He teaches English in Transylvania, and does a passable impression of Bruce Springsteen.

## Work on Escape Artists

Cast of Wonders

* CW41 The Living Earth, read by Graeme Dunlop
* CW207 Millions Times Eight, read by Jason Arquin
J. J. Litke

**J. J. Litke** lives in Austin, Texas, where she writes SFF and moonlights as a graphic design instructor. She can tell you more than you want to know about GREP styles and WordPress development. Her work has also appeared in Andromeda Spaceways Inflight Magazine and Farstrider Magazine.

## Work on Escape Artists

Cast of Wonders

* CW210 Little Wonders 8 – Embracing Change: *When the Planets Left*, read by Katherine Inskip
Laura DeHaan

**Laura DeHaan** is a healthcare practitioner in her hometown of Toronto, Ontario. She pays her bills by helping people relax and feel better, but when she writes she likes making people feel just a little awful. She has a couple stories out, one in Postscripts to Darkness 4 about a new kind of danger posed by an invasive species, and one in Andromeda Spaceways In-Flight Magazine involving a zombie cowboy and a talking snake. Something for everyone!

## Work on Escape Artists

Cast of Wonders

* CW093 Little Wonders II - Golly, read by Melissa Bugaj
J. C. Hutchins

**J.C. Hutchins** crafts award-winning transmedia narratives, screenplays and novels for companies such as 20th Century Fox, A&E, Cinemax, Discovery, FOX Broadcasting, Infiniti, Macmillan Publishers and Harebrained Schemes. He has been profiled by *The New York Times, The Washington Post,* NPR’s *Weekend Edition,* ABC Radio and the BBC. His latest creative endeavor is *The 33,* a monthly episodic ebook series.

J.C.’s other recent work includes writing roles on immersive online prequels for *X-Men: Days of Future Past* and FOX's sci-fi TV series *Almost Human*. He also co-wrote the transmedia experience *Body/Mind/Change* starring director David Cronenberg, and Infiniti's groundbreaking responsive film, *Deja View*.

J.C. has also helped extend the storyworlds of such franchises as *Shadowrun,* *Golem Arcana*, Cinemax's espionage series *Hunted*, A&E's miniseries *Stephen King’s Bag of Bones* and Discovery's *The Colony*.

J.C. began his career as a new media novelist, using strategies such as podcasting, social media and crowdsourcing to create and distribute his acclaimed *7th Son* thriller novels. The years-long endeavor was successful: *7th Son: Descent* was later published by St. Martin's Press.

## Work on Escape Artists

Escape Pod

* EP074 Paradox & Greenblatt, Attorneys at Law, by Kevin J. Anderson
* EP086 When We Went to See the End of the World, by Robert Silverberg

Pseudopod

* PP003 Little Boy Leg Bone, by Richard Warren
* PP009 Counting From Ten, by Michael Montoure
* PP027 My Caroline, by Matt Wallace
* PP122 Let Them Bleed, by Lilah Wild
Jarod K. Anderson

**Jarod K. Anderson** is a fan of comic books, tattoos, pulp detective novels, herpetology, folklore, Brazilian Jiu-Jitsu, video games, and all things sci-fi, fantasy, and horror. Growing up, he wanted to be either a ninja or a maple tree. These aspirations led him to teach college English. Teaching college English led him to try other things.

Jarod’s work has appeared in numerous online and print publications including Daily Science Fiction, Escape Pod, Electric Spec, The Colored Lens, and elsewhere.

Look for his forthcoming work in Apex Magazine and Fantasy Scroll. His bestselling books of science fiction writing prompts (co-written with his wife Leslie J. Anderson) include: Inklings: 300 Starts, Plots, and Challenges to Inspire Your Horror, Science Fiction and Fantasy and 100 Prompts for Science Fiction Writers. He lives in Central Ohio.

## Work on Escape Artists

Pseudopod

* PP524 Flash on the Borderlands XXXV - The Kids Are All Wrong: *Accident Report*, read by Jeremy Moran

Cast of Wonders

* CW125 The Clasp, read by Elie Hirschman
* CW155 Aisha Bets Her Life on Magic, read by Julia Rios
Francesca Forrest

**Francesca Forrest** has lived in the United States, England, and Japan and used to boast about having given birth to children on three continents. If she’d started earlier, she might have tried for births on the rest. Currently she works as a copy editor, spending as much of her free time writing as possible. She’s had short stories and poems published both online and in print, along with one novel, *Pen Pal*. She also volunteers as a tutor in a medium-security jail. She loves knowing which plants in a landscape are edible and the folk names of wildflowers.

## Work on Escape Artists

Cast of Wonders

* CW223 The Oulough, read by Julia Rios
Gerri Leen

**Gerri Leen** lives in Northern Virginia and originally hails from Seattle. In addition to being an avid reader and an at-times sporadic writer, she’s passionate about horse racing, tea, whiskey, and art.

She has work appearing in: Nature, Orson Scott Card’s Intergalactic Medicine Show, Daily Science Fiction, Grievous Angel, Grimdark, and others. She’s edited several anthologies for independent presses, is finishing an urban fantasy novel and is a member of SFWA and HWA.

## Work on Escape Artists

### Escape Pod

* EP632-633 “Lucky Shot”, read by Alethea Kontis
	+ Part 1, Part 2

### Cast of Wonders

* CW336 Little Wonders 19 - Bittersweet Christmas - “The Night Before Never”, read by Nick Owers
Mike Allen

**Mike Allen** is the editor of the anthology series *Clockwork Phoenix* and the digital journal *Mythic Delirium*. His first novel, *The Black Fire Concerto*, a post-apocalyptic tale of music, magic and flesh-eating ghouls, was published in 2013 by Haunted Stars Press, and he’s written a sequel, *The Ghoulmaker's Aria*. His website is Descent Into Light.

His first collection of horror stories, *Unseaming* (with a gracious introduction by Laird Barron, and which Thomas Ligotti called “seriously unnerving fun”) was released by Antimatter Press in 2014. (*Unseaming* contains all four stories that have appeared on Pseudopod – “The Button Bin,” — which was a finalist for the 2008 Nebula Award for Best Short Story — “The Blessed Days”, “Let There Be Darkness” & “Monster” and also contains the 19k sequel to Button Bin, “The Quiltmaker”.)

## Work on Escape Artists

### Pseudopod

* PP146 The Button Bin, read by Wilson Fowlie
* PP176 The Blessed Days, read by Ben Phillips
* PP268 Let There Be Darkness, read by Christiana Ellis
* PP462 Flash On The Borderlands XXIX - Monsters: “Monster”, read by Ben Kohanski

### PodCastle

* PCMini048 An Invitation via Email, read by James Trimarco
* PC437 The Cruelest Team Will Win, read by Setsu Uzume
Erin Cashier

**Erin Cashier** is fond of the unreliable narrator. She grew up in Texas but lives/works/plays in Northern California. Like all writers her cat loves her particularly much, and her husband is a fantastic man. Erin works as a registered nurse at a Burn Ward, which is amazing and challenging in equal measure.

## Work on Escape Artists

Escape Pod

* EP537 Honeycomb Girls, read by Johnathan Danz
Isaac Asimov

**Isaac Asimov** (born Isaak Ozimov; c. January 2, 1920 – April 6, 1992) was an American writer and professor of biochemistry at Boston University. He was known for his works of science fiction and popular science. Asimov was a prolific writer, and wrote or edited more than 500 books and an estimated 90,000 letters and postcards. His books have been published in 9 of the 10 major categories of the Dewey Decimal Classification.

Asimov wrote hard science fiction and, along with Robert A. Heinlein and Arthur C. Clarke, he was considered one of the "Big Three" science fiction writers during his lifetime. Asimov's most famous work is the Foundation Series; his other major series are the Galactic Empire series and the Robot series. He wrote hundreds of short stories, including the social science fiction "Nightfall", which in 1964 was voted by the Science Fiction Writers of America the best short science fiction story of all time.
Jen C.A. Morris

Somewhere between taking care of her family in Toronto and participating in activism in a few areas, **Jen C. A. Morris** does her best to keep getting all of these ideas out of her head and onto the page.

She has been a participant of the Critters writing workshop, and is an affiliate member of the Horror Writers Association.

While she works on getting her next story out there, she can be found on Twitter at @jencamorris and on Instagram at morris.jca.

Jen would like to promote the Lions Foundation of Canada Dog Guides program, as her son is a client of the Autism Assistance Dog Guide program. If anyone would like to donate to the Foundation, they can be found at www.dogguides.com.

## Work on Escape Artists

### Pseudopod

* PP616 Flash on the Borderlands XLIV: Objectification - “I Am Your Dog”, read by Austin Malone
Jon Padgett

Jon Padgett is a professional–though lapsed–ventriloquist who lives in New Orleans with his spouse, their daughter, and a rescue dog and cat. He is the Co-Editor-In-Chief of Vastarien, a source of critical study and creative response to the work of Thomas Ligotti. Padgett’s first short story collection, The Secret of Ventriloquism, was named the Best Fiction Book of 2016 by Rue Morgue Magazine. He has work out or forthcoming in Weird Fiction Review, PseudoPod, Lovecraft eZine, Xnoybis, and the anthologies A Walk on the Weird Side, Wound of Wounds, Phantasm/Chimera, andFor Mortal Things Unsung. This summer, his novelette, The Broker of Nightmares, will be published in a signed, illustrated edition by Nightscape Press.

## Work on Escape Artists

Writing

Pseudopod

* PP433 20 Simple Steps to Ventriloquism, read by the author
* PP471 The Mindfulness of Horror Practice, read by the author
* PP490 Murmurs of a Voice Foreknown, read by Paul Cram
* PP547 Escape to Thin Mountain, read by Dagny Paul
* PP609 A Little Delta of Filth, read by Dagny Paul

Narrating

Pseudopod

* PP499 The Tooth Fairy, by Russel McLean
* PP535 Artemis Rising 3 - The Lady With the Light, by Mel Kassel
* PP594 Mysterium Tremendum - Part 1, by Laird Barron
	+ PP595 Mysterium Tremendum - Part 2
	+ PP596 Mysterium Tremendum - Part 3
J. P. Sullivan

**J. P. Sullivan** is an M.A. student and editor for manga publisher Seven Seas Entertainment. A graduate of the Clarion Writer’s Workshop in 2016 and Grand Prize Winner of Baen’s 2017 Fantasy Adventure contest, J.P.’s fiction has since appeared in *Orson Scott Card’s Intergalactic Medicine Show*, *Galaxy’s Edge*, *Mysterion*, and elsewhere.

## Work on Escape Artists

### PodCastle

* PC The Blue Widow, read by Tanja Milojevic
Jen Rhodes

**Jen Rhodes** is one of the founding co-hosts of “Anomaly” — a geek girl podcast and blog. Anomaly features articles and episodes on everything from conventions & cosplay to Star Wars and Dr. Who. She’s been nerding out with her co-host since 2007 at **AnomalyPodcast.com**.

## Work on Escape Artists

Escape Pod

* EP570 What Good Is a Glass Warrior?, by G. Scott Huggins

Pseudopod

* PP440 Octavius Bound, by Nathan Ehret; read by Vash Bloodfrost and **Jen Rhodes**

PodCastle

* PCMini058 Before the Uprising, by Katherine Sparrow
* PCMini066 The Witch’s Second Daughter, by Marissa K. Lingen
* PC183 The GodDeath of Halla, by Tina Connolly
* PC273 Excision, by Scott H. Andrews
* PC314 The Nameless Saint, by Willow Fagan
Kimberly Taylor

**Kimberly Taylor** is from Memphis, TN. She enjoys reading, coloring, and cackling over tea with friends. She is obsessed with Black Southern Womanhood (her own and that of others), nail art, and Bioware games.

## Work on Escape Artists

PodCastle

* PC455 A Score of Roses, by Troy L. Wiggins
* PC460 Artemis Rising 3 - The Settlement, by Wendi Dunlap
Peadar O Guillin

Sample some of Peadar's **FROZEN STORIES**. Random House published his first novel,**THE INFERIOR**, in 2007 (2008 in North America). The translation rights have since been sold to ten different markets. A sequel called **THE DESERTER** will be appearing in the U.S. and Canada in March 2012. He is also the author of numerous short stories, the most recent of which is “Heartless” over at **BENEATH CEASELESS SKIES** (December 2011), “Fairy Gold”, due out in **LORE** in March 2012 or “The Dowry” in the next issue (#16) of **BLACK GATE**.
Joanne Anderton

**Joanne Anderton** writes speculative fiction for anyone who likes their worlds a little different. She sprinkles a pinch of science fiction to spice up her fantasy, and thinks horror adds flavour to everything. She has won the Aurealis, Ditmar and Australian Shadows awards.

## Work on Escape Artists

PodCastle

* PC491 Bullets, read by A. J. Fitzwater
Fonda Lee

**Fonda Lee** is the author of the award-winning young adult science fiction novels *Zeroboxer* and *Exo*, and the forthcoming fantasy series for adults, *Jade City*. When she’s not writing she can be found training in martial arts or searching out tasty food in Portland, Oregon. You can learn more about her work on her website, or follow her on Twitter.

## Work on Escape Artists

Cast of Wonders

* CW248 Binaries, by S.B. Divya
Krystal Claxton

**Krystal Claxton** is a writer and an associate editor for PodCastle. She lives in Georgia, USA with her long-suffering spouse, a dog who thinks it’s a cat, and a number of children that is subject to change. She enjoys breaking Heinlein’s Rules, getting distracted by DragonCon, and feverishly researching whichever random topic has just piqued her interest.

## Work on Escape Artists

PodCastle

* PC365: The Newsboy's Last Stand, read by Graeme Dunlop

Cast of Wonders

* CW205/CW206/CW230: Planar Ghosts, read by Paul Cram
* CW137: The Filigreed Cage, read by A. P. Clarke
Jennifer Hykes

**Jennifer Hykes** lives with her husband and two cats just outside of Pittsburgh. She is fond of books, moonlight, and good yarns, both in the narrative and fiber sense.

Her stories have appeared in *Abyss & Apex* and *Betwixt*.

She is fairly certain that the cats are not enchanted princes, but it is sometimes hard to tell with these things.

## Work on Escape Artists

### PodCastle

* PC393 Harlequin Moon, read by Laurice White

### Cast of Wonders

* CW234 Why I'm Asking for An Extension on My Paper, read by Dani Daly
* CW324 Banned Books Week: The Sound of Her Voice, read by Dani Daly
Ferrett Steinmetz

**Ferrett Steinmetz** is a firm believer in the “apply butt to chair, then fingers to keyboard” philosophy, and he writes for at least an hour every day – which helps, he promises. He is a graduate of both the Clarion Writers’ Workshop and Viable Paradise, and has been nominated for the Nebula Award, for which he remains stoked.

Ferrett has a moderately popular blog, The Watchtower of Destruction, wherein he talks about bad puns, relationships, politics, videogames, and more bad puns. He is the creator of the most popular and comprehensive online purity quizzes (this one’s for sex, but he’s also done them for roleplaying and Livejournal). He’s written four computer books, including the still-popular-after-two-years Wicked Cool PHP.

He lives in Cleveland with his wife, who he couldn’t imagine living without.

## Work on Escape Artists

Escape Pod

* EP396 Dead Merchandise, read by Kathy Sherwood
* EP339 Run, Bakri Says, read by Mur Lafferty
* EP331 Devour, read by Dave Thompson
* EP445 Black Swan Oracle, read by Amy Robinson

Pseudopod

* PP162 Suicide Notes, Written by an Alien Mind, read by Phil Rossi
* PP226 The Sound Of Gears, read by Bob Eccles
* PP342 Riding Atlas, read by Christopher Reynaga
* PP418 Shadow Transit, read by Marie Brennan

PodCastle

* PC157 As Below, So Above, read by Norm Sherman
* PC190 A Window, Clear as a Mirror, read by Rish Outfield
* PCBonus Spotlight: Flex
José Pablo Iriarte

**José Pablo Iriarte** is a Cuban-American writer, high school math teacher, and parent of two.

José’s fiction can be found in in magazines such as *Lightspeed*, *Strange Horizons*, *Fireside Fiction*, and others.

## Work on Escape Artists

### Escape Pod

* EP666 This Wine-Dark Feeling That Isn’t The Blues, read by Alethea Kontis

### Cast of Wonders

* CW334 Secrets and Things We Don’t Say Out Loud, read by Devin McLaughlin
Jason Fischer

**Jason Fischer** is a writer who lives near Adelaide, South Australia. He has a passion for godawful puns and is known to sing karaoke until the small hours.

He has won an Aurealis Award and the Writers of the Future Contest, and he has been shortlisted for other awards such as the Ditmars and the Australian Shadows. He is the author of dozens of short stories. His first collection “Everything is a Graveyard” is available from various vendors.

## Work on Escape Artists

Pseudopod

* PP540 The Dog Pit, read by Barry Haworth

PodCastle

* PC438 Defy the Grey Kings, read by Wilson Fowlie
Evan Marcroft

**Evan Marcroft** is an aspiring speculative fiction writer from Sacramento California, who uses his expensive degree in Literary Criticism and Theory to do menial data entry. He has studied Spanish for four years and can therefore speak Mandarin poorly. Evan dreams of writing for video games and owning a house in Disney World. His work is forthcoming in Mirror Dance Magazine.

## Work on Escape Artists

Pseudopod

* PP590 Emperor All, read by Kris Straub
Ibba Armancas

**Ibba Armancas** is a writer-director currently based in Los Angeles. Her darkly comedic genre sensibilities are showcased in two web series and a feature film forthcoming later this year.

One day she will find time to make a website, but in the meantime, you can follow her projects and adventures on Twitter or Instagram.

## Work on Escape Artists

### Escape Pod

* EP528 Divided By Zero, by Samantha Murray

* EP541 As Travelers In Sky Boats, by Kristin Janz
* EP550 When They Come Back, by Natalia Theodoridou
* EP565 Artemis Rising 3 - The Zombee Project 3.0, by Allison Mulder
* EP587 Someday, by James Patrick Kelly
* EP592 When All the Clocks Are Wrong, by Beth Goder
* EP603 An Equal Share of the Bone, by Karen Osborne
* EP611 When We Fall, by Kameron Hurley
* EP628 The Endangered Camp, by Ann Leckie
* EP657 The Big So-So, by Erica L. Satifka

### Pseudopod

* PP585 Artemis Rising 4: Cinereous, by Livia Llewellyn

### Cast of Wonders

* CW294 Artemis Rising 4 – Earn Your Breath, by Jaime O. Mayer (also as CW338, a Staff Pick)
Julia Rios

**Julia Rios** is a Hugo award winning editor, writer, podcaster, and narrator.

Julia is currently the Fiction Editor for Fireside Magazine, and her own fiction, nonfiction, and poetry have appeared in *Daily Science Fiction*, *Lightspeed*, and *Goblin Fruit*, among other places. She is a co-host of *The Skiffy and Fanty Show*, a general SF discussion podcast.

She was a fiction editor for the Hugo-nominated magazine, *Strange Horizons*, and co-editor with *Alisa Krasnostein of Kaleidoscope: Diverse YA Science Fiction and Fantasy Stories*, and the *Year’s Best YA Speculative Fiction 2013*.

## Work on Escape Artists

### Writing

#### PodCastle

* PC261 Oracle Gretel, read by Marguerite Kenner

### Narration

#### Pseudopod

* PP353 FLASH ON THE BORDERLANDS XVII: Keeping Up Appearances: "Pawn" by Jaki Idler
* PP257 In "The Poor Girl Taken By Surprise", by Gemma Files

#### PodCastle

* PC264 Mermaid’s Hook, by Liz Argall
* PC374 Poet-Scholars of the Necropolis, by M.K. Hutchins
* PC326 Haunts, by Claire Humphrey
* PCMini062 The Transfiguration of Maria Luisa Ortega, by E. Lily Yu
* PC173 Who in Mortal Chains, by Claire Humphrey
* PC530 Kin, Painted, by Penny Stirling

#### Cast of Wonders

* CW155 Aisha Bets Her Life on Magic, by Jarod K. Anderson
* CW223 The Oulough, by Francesca Forrest
* CW295 Artemis Rising 4 – An American Refugee, by Tiah Marie Beautement (also as CW342 a Staff Pick)
Kurt Pankau

**Kurt Pankau** is a software developer in St. Louis, Missouri, where he lives with his wife and two children. He has a weakness for dad jokes, board games, and stories about time-travel. His work has previously appeared in Daily Science Fiction.

## Work on Escape Artists

Escape Pod

* EP597 Ms. Figgle-DeBitt’s Home for Wayward A.I.’s, read by Matt Dovey
Gabriel R. Miller

**Gabriel R. Miller** lives in the Inland Northwestern United States with his alien ex-wife of 15 years and his three beautiful, half-alien children. He has a dog who loves him, a cat who needs him (her words, not his), and a guinea pig who hates him (though he says the feeling is mutual). He is the proud owner of a small collection of saws, all of which he knows how to use. He is currently working on a fantasy trilogy. He blogs and vlogs and does other things that sound like excretory functions whenever he can muster the will to do so, which isn’t often. He’s also on Facebook and Twitter, and you can find all the links to his various online personalities at **Luddite With A Laser**.

## Work on Escape Artists

Pseudopod

* PP403 Flash on the Borderlands XXI: The Tyranny Of Objects
Heather Welliver

**Heather Welliver** is an Emmy Award nominated narrator and voice actress whose past credits include A.D.D.Cast and Grailwolf’s Geek Life.

She has been part of the Escape Artists family of narrators since 2007.

## Work on Escape Artists

Escape Pod

* EP127 Results, by Kristine Kathryn Rusch
* EP301 Stone Wall Truth, by Caroline Yoachim

Pseudopod

* PP083 Heartstrung, by Rachel Swirsky
* PP090 The Exhibition, by Melinda Selmys
* PP118 Lala Salama, by Gill Ainsworth
* PP238 The Talisman, by Heather McDougal
* PP293 Flash On The Borderlands XII - (Black) Arts & (Dead) Letters: *Dancing,* by Donna Glee Williams
* PP362 Go, Go, Go, Said the Bird, by Sonya Dorman
* PP477 Bug House, by Lisa Tuttle
* PP511 Flash on the Borderlands XXXIII: Corpus *Hide*, by Annie Neugebauer

PodCastle

* PC026 Black Ribbon, by Dawn Albright
* PC148 State Change, by Ken Liu

Cast of Wonders

* CW165 Into The Forever Place, by Luke Thomas
Gary Kloster

**Gary Kloster** always loved speculative fiction.  That’s the fancy name for stories that involve lasers, or swords, or in the very best stories, laser-swords.  As a kid, he decided to try writing it, and according to Gary, "it went really badly."

A few decades later, after a short stint as a science reference librarian, he is a stay-at-home dad who answers urgent questions like ‘When’s lunch?’ and ‘Can you find my stuff for me?’  It’s not really much different then helping the undergrads back at the University, but it can wear thin at times.  In an effort to save his sanity, and avoid housework, he has returned to writing.

He says, "I think it’s going better, this time."

## Work on Escape Artists

Escape Pod

* EP532 Saints, Beasts and Zombies, read by Roberto Suarez
Jonathan Chaffin

**Jonathan M. Chaffin** is the designer and writer behind the Cthulhu tiki mug and other horror-themed barware collections from Horror In Clay; each object has a backstory and contributes to a narrative for the collection. He also co-owns Mug Crate, the quarterly tiki mug subscription box, has narrated and designed for Pseudopod, and frequently speaks on all things tiki, horror, crowdfunding, and pop culture at events like DragonCon and Anachrocon. He also writes horror movie reviews for The Collinsport Historical Society from time to time.

Jonathan also designed the original identity work for Pseudopod.org and Escape Artists as well as several t-shirts and ads. With his wife Allison he briefly managed PodDisk.

## Work on Escape Artists

Pseudopod

* Bonus Flash: Waiting Up For Father, by Greg van Eekhout
* PP007 Drawing the Moon, by Janni Lee Simner

Cast of Wonders

* CW251 Little Wonders 12 - The Unexpected: *The Finder,* by R. G. Ziemer
James Fitzsimmons

**James Fitzsimmons** holds a BA in English from California State University, Los Angeles where he studied literature and creative writing. He works as a computer programmer and lives in Long Beach CA. His interests include music, theater, musical theater, and fiction. James says that writing a computer program is much like writing a story, but hopes his stories have fewer bugs!

## Work on Escape Artists

Cast of Wonders

* CW211 Indian Rope Trick, read by Kaushik Narasimhan
Jamie Lackey

**Jamie Lackey** lives in Pittsburgh with her husband and their cat. She has over 120 short fiction credits, and has appeared in Daily Science Fiction, Beneath Ceaseless Skies, and the Stoker Award-winning After Death.... She's a member of the Science Fiction and Fantasy Writers of America. Her short story collection, *One Revolution*, and her science fiction novella, *Moving Forward*, are available on Amazon.com. She read submissions for the Hugo-winning Clarkesworld Magazine for five years and was an assistant editor for the Hugo-winning Electric Velocipede from 2012-2013. She served as editor for Triangulation: Lost Voices in 2015 and Triangulation: Beneath the Surface in 2016. Her debut novel, *Left-Hand Gods*, is available from Hadley Rille Books. In addition to writing, she spends her time reading, playing tabletop RPGs, baking, and hiking. You can find her online at www.jamielackey.com.

## Work on Escape Artists

Escape Pod

* EP619 Artemis Rising: A Study in Symmetry, or the Chance Encounter of an Android and a Painter, read by Trendane Sparks & Divya Breed

Cast of Wonders

* CW266 The Immobile God of Secrets, read by Nina Brady
JA Ironside

**Jules Anne Ironside** started writing as a child. She grew up in Dorset in a house full of books, fed on a diet of myths, legends and spooky tales. She particularly likes to take well known myths and turn them on their heads. Jules is a keen martial artist having taught karate for fifteen years now. In her free time she likes to read and add to her collection of dead or little use languages. She has had several other short stories published in the anthologies Reading is Magic and Stories for Homes both available from Amazon. Her next published story will appear in the A Chimerical world; Unseelie anthology.

## Work on Escape Artists

Cast of Wonders

* CW099 Little Wonders III: Scary Stories - *The Boatman*, read by Ian Stuart
Evo Terra

Evo Terra is the pseudonym for Travis Unwin, an American podcaster, author, radio broadcaster, and businessman currently based in Bangkok, Thailand. Terra is known as the author of *Podcasting For Dummies*, originator of *The Beer Diet*, a travel blogger, and an early pioneer in podcasting. As one of the earliest popularizers of podcasting, Terra's first podcast episode appeared on the Podcast Alley directory on October 14, 2004, and was only the fortieth podcast produced as of that date. In 2006 Terra was one of the co-founders of Podiobooks.com, a website that uses podcasting technology to help authors distribute serialized versions of audiobooks from various genres.

In 2011, Terra founded ePublish Unum, a company that provided educational services for independent authors until September 2014. Terra has also been a panelist in the podcasting track at Dragon Con in Atlanta, Georgia, and delivered the keynote address at the Podcast Movement conference in Dallas, Texas in 2014.

## Work on Escape Artists

Escape Pod

* EP022 Don Ysidro, by Bruce Holland Rogers
* EP029 Crystal Balls, by Susie Hawes
* EP051 Is You Is/Is You Ain't?, by Michael Canfield
* EP071 The Capo of Darkness, by Laura Resnick
* EP206 Rogue Farm, by Charles Stross; read by a full cast with Stephen Eley, Jared Axelrod, J.R. Blackwell, **Evo Terra**, Dee Reed, Laura Burns, John Cmar, Earl Newton
Escape Artists Wikia

## Welcome to the Escape Artists Wikia

Welcome to Escape Artists, Inc. - home of four of the most amazing weekly fiction podcasts on the planet!

* Escape Pod - for engaging science fiction
* Pseudopod - for the best short horror
* PodCastle - for diverse and astounding fantasy
* Cast of Wonders - for Young Adult speculative fiction

## What is Escape Artists, Inc.?

***Escape Pod*** is a magazine-style podcast founded by Serah Eley and launched on 12 May 2005 which presents science fiction stories. It has been called, "the world's leading science fiction podcast." In 2006, Eley created Escape Artists, Inc. to produce ***Escape Pod*** and sister podcasts, *Pseudopod* and *PodCastle*. In 2014, the company was sold to long-time Pseudopod host Alasdair Stuart, and in 2016, *Cast of Wonders* joined the Escape Artists family.

While episodes are free, writers are paid according to market guidelines established by the Science Fiction and Fantasy Writers of America, and the company runs solely on listener donations or subscriptions.

## Special Events

Escape Artists's listeners are an active group. Join the forums at Forum.EscapeArtists.net to discuss your favorite episodes, dish about podcasting or genre fiction, submit stories to the members-only Crit group - and much more.

## References

1. ↑ TNC New Media, Inc. "Speaker Bio: Stephen Eley". TNC New Media, Inc. Archived from the original on 2007-10-15. Retrieved 2007-11-13.
Grady Hendrix

Grady Hendrix writes fiction, also called "lies," and he writes non-fiction, which people sometimes accidentally pay him for. He is the author of *Horrorstör*, the only novel about a haunted Scandinavian furniture store you'll ever need. It has been translated into 14 languages and is being turned into a television show by Gail Berman (*Buffy the Vampire Slayer*), Charlie Kaufman (*Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind*), and Josh Schwartz (*Gossip Girl*). They have never met Grady, but that is their loss. His new novel is called *My Best Friend's Exorcism*, about demonic possession, friendship, exorcism, and the Eighties, out from Quirk Books in May, 2016.

Grady Hendrix used to be a journalist, which means that he was completely irrelevant and could be killed and turned into food at any time. He is one of the founders of the New York Asian Film Festival, but he is not responsible for the bad parts of it. He is also not Asian. For years he was a regular film critic for the *New York Sun* but then it went out of business. He has written for *Playboy Magazine*, *Slate*, *The Village Voice*, the *New York Post*, *Film Comment*, and *Variety*.

There is a science fiction book called *Occupy Space* that he is the author of, and also a fantasy book called *Satan Loves You* which he wrote as well. Along with his BFF from high school, Katie Crouch, he is the co-author of the YA series, *The Magnolia League*. He co-authored *Dirt Candy: A Cookbook*, the first graphic novel cookbook in America, with his wife and Ryan Dunlavey. His fiction has appeared in Strange Horizons, Pseudopod, and the anthology, *The Mad Scientist's Guide to World Domination*.

He is very, very beautiful, but if you ever meet him, please do not let this make you uncomfortable. He does not judge.

*The New Yorker* once ran a short profile of him, and this means that when the time comes and they are lining people up for the Space Arks he will be guaranteed a seat ahead of you.

## Work on Escape Artists

Pseudopod

* PP076 Tales of the White Street Society, read by Alasdair Stuart
* PP131 Tales of the White Street Society - The Corpse Army of Khartoum, read by Alasdair Stuart
* PP522 The Christmas Spirits - A Tale of the White Street Society, read by Alasdair Stuart
Kris Johnson

**Kris "KJ" Johnson** is a husband, father, podcaster, gamer, wannabe writer, cat owner and geek dilettante.

## Work on Escape Artists

Pseudopod

* PP038 Hell’s Daycare, by D. Richard Pearce
* PP060 The Heart of Tu’a Halaita, by Tara Kolden
* PP073 Blood, Gridlock and PEZ, by Kevin Anderson
* PP098 Among the Moabites, by Michael Hartford
* PP109 In the Coils of the Serpent, by William Meikle
* PP135 The Duel, by Michael James McFarland
* PP147 Orifice, by John F.D. Taff
* PP170 The Sultan of Meat, by James B. Pepe
* PP190 Wearing the Dead, by Alan Smale
* PP233 Association, by Eddie Borey
Hamilton Perez

**Hamilton Perez** is a writer and freelance editor living in Sacramento, California. Before joining PodCastle as an Associate Editor, he worked with Fantasy Scroll Magazine and Nebula Rift. His own stories have appeared in Daily Science Fiction, Metaphorosis, and Mad Scientist Journal. Occasionally he blogs about writing (and not writing) at hamiltonperez.wordpress.com. You can follow him on Twitter @TheWritingHam.
H.V. Chao

**H.V. CHAO**‘s fiction has appeared in **The Kenyon Review**, **West Branch**, **The Antigonish Review**, **Birkensnake**, **The Nashwaak Review**, **Epiphany**, **The Coachella Review**, and Douglas Lain’s defunct **Diet Soap**. His stories have been translated into French in **Brèves** and **Le Visage Vert**. He is at work on **Guises**, a collection whose every story is meant to be as different as can be from the others.

## Work on Escape Artists

Pseudopod

* PP402 The Recovery, read by George Hrab
Emma Osborne

**Emma Osborne** is a fiction writer and poet from Melbourne, Australia. Her short stories can be found in Aurealis, Bastion Science Fiction and Shock Totem. Her poetry has been featured in Star\*Line and has appeared in Apex Magazine. Emma comes from a long line of dance floor starters and was once engaged in a bear hug so epic that both parties fell over.

Emma's story The Box Wife was read by Eve Upton for Pseudopod episode 482.
Eric Czuleger

**Eric Czuleger** lives in Los Angeles where he is a resident playwright and founding member of the Coeurage Theatre Company as well as a Media Journalist for TheWrap.com. He writes for screens both big and small as much as he possibly can.

He was a playwright for years before he joined the Peace Corps. He lived in the town of Bajram Curri, Albania, where he taught High School English in 2013. He finished Peace Corps service in Northern Albania in 2013 and tries to travel in and out of the states as much as he can.

Eric is the author of **Immortal L.A.**, a series of short weird fiction about a big weird city, and its sci fi sequel  **Eternal L.A.** He has collaborated with audio artist Joe Calarco on an audio prequel to this series entitled **Ignited L.A.** And there is also the forth coming **Farnoosh** a stand alone novel about The Iranian Revolution, Genies, and reality television. All are available on Amazon or through his website.

## Work on Escape Artists

Pseudopod:

* PP341 Immortal L.A., read by Joe Calarco
* PP416 Punksnotdead, read by Joe Calarco
Eric Juneau

**Eric Juneau** is a 31-year-old software engineer living in Minnesota with his wife and two daughters. His hobbies include writing, video games, reading, and eating as much barbecue as he can find. He blogs about his quest to become a ‘capital-A’ Author, and started a fiction project chronicling a healing mage’s experience in World of Warcraft.

## Work on Escape Artists

Cast of Wonders

* CW087 Little Wonders I - Influx Capacitor, read by Dave Robison
Kevin M. Hayes

**Kevin M. Hayes** has been reading science fiction since he was old enough to read, and has been writing it for almost as long. He is active in the Pittsburgh SFF organization, Parsec and helps put on Confluence, a genre fiction conference every year. He has had stories published in *Six from Parsec* and *Triangulation* as well as *TV Gods* and most recently in *The Realm Beyond*. He has narrated other stories for Pseudopod and, amazingly, has also published a few limericks.

He lives in Pittsburgh Pennsylvania with the love of his life, some of her children and all of her cats.

## Work on Escape Artists

Pseudopod

* PP353 FLASH ON THE BORDERLANDS XVII: Keeping Up Appearances: The Demon Fields, by Keith McCleary
* PP444 Boys Will Be Boys, by Joe R. Lansdale

Cast of Wonders

* CW184 Wine for Witches, Milk for Saints, by Rachael K. Jones
John Cmar

**John Cmar** is an infectious diseases physician in Baltimore who splits his time between treating horrors such as syphilis, and molding the next generation of doctors, while repeatedly washing his hands in between. When not herding his five cats or going fanboy over the space endeavors of his wife Moon Ranger Laura, John infectious various podcast and radio projects with his voice. He is the Chief Medical Officer and Bad Doctor in Residence at his personal blog, Saint Nickanuck.

## Work on Escape Artists

Cast of Wonders

* CW082 Mr. Scampers War, by J. S. Bell
* CW144 The Middle Rages, by Joseph L. Kellogg
* CW121 Little Wonders V: Trope Twists - *The Hero*, by Jessica Holscher
* CW139 Little Wonders VI: A Little Laughter - *Continue?*, by James Vachowski
Hans Christian Andersen

**Hans Christian Andersen** (2 April 1805 – 4 August 1875), was a Danish author. Although a prolific writer of plays, travelogues, novels, and poems, Andersen is best remembered for his fairy tales. Andersen's popularity is not limited to children: his stories express themes that transcend age and nationality.

Andersen's fairy tales, of which no less than 3381 works have been translated into more than 125 languages, have become culturally embedded in the West's collective consciousness, readily accessible to children, but presenting lessons of virtue and resilience in the face of adversity for mature readers as well. Some of his most famous fairy tales include "The Emperor's New Clothes", "The Little Mermaid", "The Nightingale", "The Snow Queen", "The Ugly Duckling", "Thumbelina", and many others. His stories have inspired ballets, plays, and animated and live-action films. One of Copenhagen's widest and most busy boulevards is labeled "H.C. Andersens Boulevard".

## Work on Escape Artists

Cast of Wonders

* CW060 The Swineherd, read by Graeme Dunlop