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Malon Edwards

**Malon Edwards** was born and raised on the South Side of Chicago, but now lives in the Greater Toronto Area, where he was lured by his beautiful Canadian wife. Many of his short stories are set in an alternate Chicago and feature people of color and Haitian Creole (Malon does not speak Haitian Creole). Currently, he serves as Managing Director and Grants Administrator for the Speculative Literature Foundation, which provides a number of grants for writers of speculative literature.

## Work on Escape Artists

### Escape Pod

* EP436 Into the Breach, read by Mandaly Louis-Charles (repeated in EP656 as a Flashback Friday episode)
* EP631 Heart of Ash, Heart of Steam, read by Mandaly Louis-Charles

### PodCastle

* PC387 The Half Dark Promise, read by Mandaly Louis-Charles
* PC495 Shadow Man, Sack Man, Half Dark, Half Light, read by Mandaly Louis-Charles
* PC555 Candied Sweets, Cornbread, and Black-Eyed Peas, read by Mandaly Louis-Charles
Kelsey Dean

**Kelsey Dean** hails from Michigan, but currently resides in Seoul, where she works as an English teacher. She reads, writes, paints, and studies various languages when she has the time. Her work, particularly her poetry, can be found in a variety of publications, such as Liminal Stories, Lilac City Fairy Tales, Cicada, and Ember: A Journal of Luminous Things. Her YA short story ‘Starfishing’ is available on Audible and you can view more of her work on Tumblr.

## Work on Escape Artists

Cast of Wonders

* CW268 Banned Books Week: Below the Serapeum, read by Alethea Kontis
John Hornor Jacobs

**John Hornor Jacobs** has worked in advertising for the last fifteen years, played in bands, and pursued art in various forms.

He is also, in his copious spare time, an excellent novelist. His first novel, *Southern Gods*, was published by Night Shade Books and shortlisted for the Bram Stoker Award. His young adult series is called *The Incarcerado Trilogy*. And if you like fantasy, westerns, or even better, fantasy westerns, you owe it to yourself to check out *The Incorruptibles* and its sequel, *Foreign Devils*. And if that wasn’t enough, he also has a quartet of horror stories, *Fierce As The Grave*, available through Amazon.

John read the story Foggy Planet Breakdown, by Peter Wood, for Cast of Wonders episode 177.
Garth Nix

**Garth Nix** is an Australian writer who specialises in children's and young adult fantasy novels, notably the Old Kingdom, Seventh Tower and Keys to the Kingdom series. He has frequently been asked if his name is a pseudonym, to which he has responded, "I guess people ask me because it sounds like the perfect name for a writer of fantasy. However, it is my real name."

## Work on Escape Artists

Escape Pod

* EP222 Infestation, read by Geoff Michelli

PodCastle

* PC092 Sir Hereward and Mr. Fitz Go to War Again, read by Paul Tevis
* PC186 Giant Episode: Beyond the Sea Gate of the Scholar Pirates of Sarskoe, read by Paul Tevis
* PC199 A Suitable Present for a Sorcerous Puppet, read by Paul Tevis
* PC207 Giant Episode: Hope Chest, read by Mur Lafferty
Kate Baker

**Kate Baker** is the Podcast Director and Non-fiction Editor for *Clarkesworld* Magazine. She has been very privileged to narrate over 350 short stories/poems by some of the biggest names in Science Fiction and Fantasy. Kate has also read for various other audio venues such as *StarShipSofa*, *Escape Pod*, *Nightmare Magazine*, *Mash Stories*, *The Drabblecast* and *Cast of Wonders*.

Kate won the Hugo Award for Best Semiprozine in 2011 and 2013, the British Fantasy Award for Best Magazine in 2014 and the World Fantasy Award for Special Award: Non Professional in 2014 alongside the wonderfully talented editorial staff of Clarkesworld Magazine. Kate is currently situated in Northern Connecticut with her first fans: her three wonderful children. She is currently working as the Executive Director for the Science Fiction and Fantasy Writers of America.

## Work on Escape Artists

### Writing

#### Cast of Wonders

* CW246 Old Teacups and Kitchen Wives, read by Karen Bovenmyer (also as CW284, a staff pick)

### Narration

#### Escape Pod

* EP211 Carthago Delenda Est, by Genevieve Valentine
* EP217 The Kindness of Strangers, by Nancy Kress
* EP223 The Uncanny Valley, by Nick Mamatas
* EP226 Pirate Solutions, by Katherine Sparrow (read with a full cast)
* EP230 Candy Art, by James Patrick Kelly
* EP244 Non-Zero Probabilities (2010 Hugo Award nominee), by N.K. Jemisin
* EP248 Spar (2010 Hugo Award nominee), by Kij Johnson
* EP298 The Things (2011 Hugo Award nominee), by Peter Watts
* EP515 The Winter Festival, by Evan Berkow

#### PodCastle

* PC458 Artemis Rising 3 - Home Is A House That Loves You, by Rachael K. Jones
* PC518 Iron Aria, by A. Merc Rustad
* PC552 The Watchers, by Shelly Jones

#### Cast of Wonders

* CW70 A Song for the Season, by Eliza Hirsch
* CW122 Sundae, by Matt Wallace (also CW154, Staff Pick 2014)
* CW257 Little Wonders 13 - Death: “Moments in the Crawl”, by Evan Berkow
* CW329: Widow Bones Makes Her Rounds, by Gretchen Tessmer (also as CW340, a Staff Pick)
Emily Smith

**Emily Smith** is a part-time physician and full time mom in central California. While not narrating for Pseudopod or saving lives, she lives in constant danger of being eaten by cats, tripped by a baby, choked by a wisteria vine or smothered by wild birds. The wisteria vine is currently the most likely cause of her demise as it is the only thing not dependent on her for sustenance and her death dovetails nicely into its plan for world domination.

You can occasionally find her as Fireturtle on the Escape Artists forums, particularly if there is a flash contest in the offing.

## Work on Escape Artists

Pseudopod

* PP334 The Curse Of The Mummy, by Andre Harden
* PP369 Four Views Of The Big Cigar In Winter, by Charlie Bookout; read by **Emily Smith**, Matt Franklin, Laura Hobbs
* PP442 The Only Child by Leslie J. Anderson
* PP573 Bitter Perfume, by Laura Blackwell

 PodCastle

* PC175 Giant Episode: El Regalo, by Peter S. Beagle
* PCMini073 Sugar Skulls, by Samantha Henderson
Kelly Sandoval

**Kelly Sandoval** is a speculative fiction author, Seattleite, and Clarion West graduate. Her stories have appeared or are forthcoming in *Asimov’s*, *Shimmer*, and *Best American Science Fiction and Fantasy 2015*.

She’s currently writing *Unveiled*, a novel about the aftermath of the faerie apocalypse. She is also co-editing the upcoming Liminal Magazine with Shannon Peavey.

## Work on Escape Artists

Escape Pod

* EP488 In Another Life, read by Carla Doak
* EP498 Everyone Will Want One, read by Erin Bardua

PodCastle

* PC388 The One They Took Before, read by Eleiece Kraweic
* PCMini95 The Stories She Tells Herself, read by Jen R. Albert

Cast of Wonders

* CW178 Home Isn't, read by Katherine Inskip
Kevin Powe

**Kevin Powe**, international voiceover artist and actor, has lent his voice of villainy to video games and audio books worldwide from his studio in Melbourne, Australia. But, never fear – under the extremely menacing goatee is a warm and versatile pro who has been known to break out his engaging, “nice guy” naturalism for commercial and corporate projects (when bribed with the right kind of chocolate).

Creator and voice of the animated sci-fi series Altered (in development with co-writer Peter M. Ball), Kevin is also the voice of Karen Fainges’ multi-volume Shayton Chronicles novels and is featured in the trailer for Fractured Skyline, a new online cyberpunk strategy game.

Kevin lives contentedly in his ~~booth~~ home with his wife and brand new, amazingly precious bub.

He read the part of *Nicolas*in a full cast production of PodCastle's 400th episode, Night at the Opera, by Martha Wells.
James Smythe

**James Smythe** is the winner of the Wales Fiction Book of the Year 2013, and was shortlisted for the Arthur C. Clarke Award 2014. He is the author of, amongst other things, The Machine, The Explorer, No Harm Can Come To A Good Man, and the Australia trilogy, a series for Young Adult readers. His most recent book released in the US is No Harm, and in October of this year, Way Down Dark will be published in the US by Quercus.

## Work on Escape Artists

Pseudopod

* PP493 The Last Escapement, read by Paul S. Jenkins
Khaalidah Muhammad-Ali

Khaalidah Muhammad-Ali lives in Houston, Texas, with her family. By day she works as a breast oncology nurse. At all other times, she juggles, none too successfully, the multiple other facets of her very busy life.

Khaalidah has been published at or has publications upcoming in Strange Horizons, Fiyah Magazine, Diabolical Plots and others. You can hear her narrations at any of the four Escape Artists podcasts, Far Fetched Fables, and Strange Horizons. As co-editor of PodCastle audio magazine, Khaalidah is on a mission to encourage more women and POC to submit fantasy stories.

Of her alter ego, K from the planet Vega, it is rumored that she owns a time machine and knows the secret to immortality.

## Work on Escape Artists

### Writing

#### Escape Pod

* EP483 Boris's Bar, read by Kaitie Radel

### Narration

#### Escape Pod

* EP516 Married, by Helena Bell
* EP521 Myspace: A Ghost Story, by Dominica Phetteplace
* EP553 Water Finds Its Level, by M. Bennardo
* EP586 The 1st Annual Lunar Biathlon, by Rachael K. Jones

#### Pseudopod

* PP461 Flash on the Borderlands XXVIII - Britshock II: "Absolution" by Severity Chase

#### PodCastle

* PC360 21 Steps to Enlightenment (Minus One) by LaShawn M. Wanak
* PC368 Dinkley's Ice Cream, by Effie Seiberg
* PC384 Flash Fiction Extravaganza! Vintage PodCastle: “Surprises, Not Secrets” by Anna Schwind
* PC394 Ogres of East Africa, by Sofia Samatar
* PC413 This Is Not A Wardrobe Door, by A. Merc Rustad (with a full cast)
* PC416 Braid of Days and Wake of Nights, by E. Lily Yu
* PC425 Flash Fiction Extravaganza - Transformations: *Girl in Blue Dress (1881)*, by Sunil Patel
* PCMini89 Lapis Lazuli, by Tania Fordwalker
* PC436 Flash Fiction Extravaganza - Elements: *Green Girl*, by Erica Ruppert
* PC450 Bonsai, by Shaenon Garrity
* PC454 Godfather, by Megan Arkenberg
* PC463 A Dozen by Dunsany: *Alone the Immortals*; by Lord Dunsany
* PCMini98 Traveling Mercies, by Rachael K. Jones
* PC476 Clay and Smokeless Fire, by Saladin Ahmed
* PC477 Crickets Sing For Naomi, by Eden Royce
* PC494 Folk, by Eden Royce
* PC499 Flash Fiction Extravaganza - Flash Fiction Contest IV: *Have This Wish I Wish Tonight*, by Katherine Kendig
* PC505 There Are No Wrong Answers, by LaShawn M. Wanak; read by Jen R. Albert & **Khaalidah Muhammad-Ali**
* PC519 Burning Season, by C. L. Clark
* PC524 Shine Like the Sea's Deepest Secrets, by Kathryn McMahon
* PC540 Flash Fiction Extravaganza! The Three Phases of Equinox: “There is a Season”, by Lynne M. MacLean
* PC548 Daniel, by Ashley Blooms
* PC553 Grounded Women Never Fly, by Stefani Cox
* PC562 Cooking Creole by A. M. Dellamonica

#### Cast of Wonders

* CW200 Running on Two Legs, by Eugie Foster
* CW238 Artemis Rising 3 - The Absolute Temperature of Outer Space, by Sandra M. Odell
Maura McHugh

**Maura McHugh** is a prose and comic book writer living in Ireland. Her short stories have appeared in magazines and anthologies in the USA and Europe, and she’s had two collections published in the USA:Twisted Fairy Tales and Twisted Myths.

Along with Kim Rogers, Maura read Territory, by Julie Steinbacher for PodCastle episode 404 during the 2016 Artemis Rising event.
Hugo Jackson

**Hugo Jackson** is an author with Inspired Quill; his first fantasy novel, ‘Legacy’ is available from Amazon.com and Barnes and Noble. He has acted and performed stage combat for years, having appeared in various film, theatre and TV productions, including The Young Victoria, Diamond Swords at Warwick Castle, Cyrano de Bergerac (Chichester Festival Theatre, 2009)  Romeo and Juliet (Arundel Festival, 2005), The Worst Jobs In History, and Ancient Megastructures: Chartres Cathedral. See him at www.hugorjackson.com

## Work on Escape Artists

Escape Pod

* EP484 That Tear Problem, by Natalia Theodoridou

Pseudopod

* PP454 Eastern Promise, by Stewart Horn; read by Ian Stuart & **Hugo Jackson**
Gabrielle de Cuir

**Gabrielle de Cuir** has narrated over 400 hundred titles specializing in fantasy, humor, and titles requiring extensive foreign language and accent skills.  Her “velvet touch” as an actors’ director has earned her a special place in the audiobook world as the foremost choice for best-selling authors and celebrities. Short list of those directed: Anne Hathaway, Emilio Estevez, Wil Wheaton, Dr. Daniel G. Amen, Elijah Wood, Deepak Chopra, Eric Idle, Nancy Cartwright, Michael York, Ed Herrmann, and Joe Mantegna.

She is the writer and director of the Award winning short film THE DELIVERY, which deals with an Alice-in-Wonderland version of audio books.  She spent her childhood in Rome growing up with her wildly artistic and cinematic father, John de Cuir, four-time Academy Award winning Production Designer, an upbringing that her to be fluent in Romance languages and to have an unusual appetite for visual delights.

Gabrielle read The Husband Stitch by Carmen Maria Machado for PodCastle episode 409.
K. D. Wentworth

**Kathy Diane Wentworth** (January 27, 1951 – April 18, 2012) was an American science fiction author. A University of Tulsa graduate, she got her start winning the Writers of the Future Contest in 1988, and then later won Field Publications' "Teachers as Writers" Award in 1991. Wentworth served two terms as secretary of the Science Fiction and Fantasy Writers of America in the early 2000s. She served as the editor for the Writers of the Future Contest from 2009 until her death. One of her novelettes, "Kaleidoscope" (2008), and three of her short stories, "Burning Bright" (1997). "Tall One" (1998), and "Born Again" (2005) have been Nebula award finalists.

Wentworth died on April 18, 2012, from complications with pneumonia and cervical cancer.

## Work on Escape Artists

Escape Pod

* EP014 Tis the Season, read by Jonathon Sullivan

PodCastle

* PC021 Hallah IronThighs and the Change of Life, read by M. K. Hobson
Marina J. Lostetter

**Marina J. Lostetter** is the author of award-winning original stories such as *Master Belladino’s Mask*, *Sojourn for Ephah*, and *Balance*.  She has written tie-in work for the Star Citizen and Sargasso Legacy universes. When not writing, Marina can be found reading speculative fiction (of all types for all ages), drawing, exploring the outdoors, or gaming it up.  She loves exploring new cultures and travels as often as she can.

## Work on Escape Artists

Escape Pod

* EP501 Imma Gonna Finish You Off, read by Alasdair Stuart
	+ *also printed in* Issue 1 of Mothership Zeta
Russel McLean

**Russel McLean** is the author of five novels featuring Scottish private investigator J McNee. His debut, *The Good Son*, was shortlisted for a Shamus Award for Best First Novel by the Private Eye Writers Association of America. Russel’s short fiction has appeared in several anthologies and magazines including Alfred Hitchcock’s Mystery Magazine and the recent anthology, *The Adventures of Moriarty.* He spent over a decade as a bookseller before writing full time. His reviews and interviews with writers have appeared in The Herald, The Independent on Sunday, The Skinny and the TLS, and he frequently interviews writers for literary festivals and library events. When not writing his own fiction, he also works as a freelance editor. He lives in Glasgow with his partner and three cats: Moriarty, Mycroft and Magwitch. His latest book out in the UK and US from Severn House is *Cry Uncle*, the fifth in the J McNee series.

## Work on Escape Artists

Pseudopod

* PP499 The Tooth Fairy, read by Jon Padgett
Julie Hoverson

**Julie Hoverson** is the writer and producer of such audio dramas as **19 Nocturne Boulevard** and **Fatal Girl,** has now turned her hand to audiobooks and can be found on audible.com narrating such diverse pieces as Jake Bible’s **Dead Mech / Apex Trilogy** and several novellas that are part of Brian MacLellan’s **Powder Mage** series, most recently the short story collection In The Field Marshal's Shadow.

## Work on Escape Artists

Pseudopod

* PP241 In Bloom, by Caspian Gray
* PP286 The Bee Charmer of Beckett Falls, by Patty Templeton; read by **Julie Holverson** & George Cleveland
* PP332 Willow Tests Well, by Nick Mamatas
* PP436 Flash On The Borderlands XXV: Simulacra: *Worm Within* by Cat Rambo
* PP529 Luella Miller, by Mary Wilkins-Freeman

PodCastle

* PC218 Insect Joy, by Caspian Gray
* PC384 Flash Fiction Extravaganza! Vintage PodCastle: *The Island Wakes* by  D.K. Thompson
* PC408 Tumbleweeds and Little Girls, by Jeff Bowles
* PC484 Flash Fiction Extravaganza! Seasons: *Winter Witch*, by Matt Dovey
* PC525 Rabbit Grass, by Kelly Stewart
Petra Kuppers

**Petra Kuppers** is a disability culture activist and a community performance artist. She is a Professor at the University of Michigan, and she teaches on the MFA in Interdisciplinary Arts at Goddard College. Her most recent poetry collection is PearlStitch (Spuyten Duyvil: 2016). Her stories have appeared or are forthcoming in The Sycamore Review, Visionary Tongue, Future Fire, Wordgathering, Festival Writer, and Accessing the Future: A Disability-Themed Anthology of Speculative Fiction. She is the Artistic Director of The Olimpias, an international disability culture collective. She lives in Ann Arbor with her poet partner and collaborator, Stephanie Heit.

## Work on Escape Artists

PodCastle

* PC459 Artemis Rising 3 - Ice Bar, read by Marguerite Croft
Mame Bougouma Diene

**Mame Bougouma Diene** is a Senegalese American humanitarian living in Brooklyn, NY with a fondness for tattoos, progressive metal and policy analysis. He is the Francophone/US spokesperson for the African Speculative Fiction Society.

His first story on Escape Artists, “Another Day in the Desert”, is a prequel to “Ogotemmeli’s Song”, scheduled for 2019 release in AfroSFv3, and also a prequel to “Apes and Satellites” published by Brittle Paper in 2017.

## Work on Escape Artists

### Escape Pod

* EP662 Another Day in the Desert, read by Halima Salah
Matthew Claxton

**Matthew Claxton** is a reporter near Vancouver, British Columbia. His day job has, at times, involved biplanes, barn fires, toxic spills, live bears, and tricky grammar problems. His stories have appeared in Asimov’s Science Fiction, Mothership Zeta, and the 2017 edition of The Year’s Best Science Fiction.

## Work on Escape Artists

Escape Pod

* EP635 After Midnight at the ZapStop, read by Eric Luke

PodCastle

* PC490 The Names of the Sky, read by Tanja Milojevic

Mothership Zeta

* Issue Six: *The Remora*
Nina Kiriki Hoffman

In the past thirty-plus years **NINA KIRIKI HOFFMAN** has sold around ten novels and more than three hundred short stories. Her work has been on final ballots for the **World Fantasy**,**Mythopoeic**, **Endeavour**, and other awards, and she has won a Nebula and a Stoker Award. She works on production for the **MAGAZINE OF FANTASY & SCIENCE FICTION**, teaches a short stories writing class for her local community college, and picks up other odd jobs..
Lisa Montoya

**Lisa Montoya** is an elementary school teacher in Nebraska who decided to never completely grow up. She has always treasured books and stories, and loves to create her own worlds. You can find her online at Lisa’s Thought for the Day.

Her story, Lost Socks, was read by Chloë Yates for Cast of Wonders episode 169.
Robert E. Howard

**Robert E. Howard** (1906-1936) was most famous for inventing the modern sword & sorcery tale with his Conan stories, and while he often introduced horror elements as a threat in his short fiction the evocation of supernatural dread is only incidental in most of his tales; the chronicling of titanic adventure is the primary purpose. When Howard later switched from fantasy to westerns, he made the transition with the story *The Horror From the Mound*.

Howard’s major horror genre reputation rests with three stories (sadly, all of which are a bit too long for the podcast): “*Black Canaan*” (Weird Tales, 1936) was praised by Lovecraft for its “genuine, regional background and its compelling picture of the horror that stalks through the moss-hung, shadow-cursed, serpent-ridden swamps of the American far south”; “*Pigeons from Hell*” (Weird Tales, 1938) was praised by Stephen King as “one of the finest horror stories of our century” and “*Worms of the Earth*” (Weird Tales, 1932) is thought by many Howard fans to be his best story. The Del Rey series of Howard’s collected fiction includes Horror, Historical Adventures and Desert Adventures, in addition to his better known Conan, Kull and Solomon Kane tales. Please see this site.

More info on Howard can be found at the REH Foundation and Project Pride, the caretakers of the REH House and Museum in Cross Plains, TX.

## Work on Escape Artists

PodCastle

* PC162 Gods of the North, read by Graeme Dunlop
* PC232 Skulls in the Stars, read by Norm Sherman
* PC268 The Phoenix on the Sword, read by Graeme Dunlop
* PC297 The Tower of the Elephant, read by Graeme Dunlop

Pseudopod

* PP503 The Horror from the Mound, read by Anson Mount
* PP569 The Black Stone, read by Andrew Leman
Michael Jasper

**Michael Jasper** is a writer living in the mountains of North Carolina who writes in all sorts of fiction genres. The Wake Forest author is a graduate of the 1996 Clarion Science Fiction and Fantasy Writers Workshop and 1997 graduate of the North Carolina State Masters Program in Creative Writing.

## Work on Escape Artists

Escape Pod

* EP046 Natural Order, read by Steve Dupont
Max Gladstone

**Max Gladstone** is the Hugo, John W Campbell, XYZZY, and Lambda Award-Nominated author of the Craft Sequence, beginning with THREE PARTS DEAD and most recently continuing in RUIN OF ANGELS. He is also a game designer, and the lead writer on the globetrotting urban fantasy serial BOOKBURNERS, available in ebook and audio from Serial Box, and in print from Saga Press.

Max lived and taught for two years in rural Anhui province, and has traveled throughout Asia and Europe. He speaks Chinese, can embarrass himself reading Latin, and is a martial artist, fencer, and fiddler. He’s also worked as a research assistant for the Berkman Center for Internet and Policy Law, a tour guide for the Swiss Embassy, a go-between for a suspicious Chinese auto magazine, a translator, a philosophy TA, a tech industry analyst, and an editor. He has wrecked a bicycle in Angkor Wat, sung at Carnegie Hall, and been thrown from a horse in Mongolia.

## Work on Escape Artists

Cast of Wonders

* CW291 If Only Kissing Made It So, by Jason Kimble
Rebecca Birch

**Rebecca Birch** is a science fiction and fantasy writer based in Seattle, Washington. She’s a classically trained soprano, holds a deputy black belt in Tae Kwon Do, and enjoys spending time in the company of trees. Her fiction has appeared in markets including Nature, Cricket, and Flash Fiction Online. She is also a two-time finalist in the Writers of the Future contest.

## Work on Escape Artists

Cast of Wonders

* CW217 Boys' Night, read by Dave Thompson
M. Darusha Wehm

**Darusha** writes science fiction and speculative poetry as M. Darusha Wehm and mainstream poetry and fiction as Darusha Wehm. Science fiction books include: *Beautiful Red*, *Children of Arkadia* and the Andersson Dexter cyberpunk detective series. Mainstream books include the Devi Jones' Locker Young Adult series and The Home for Wayward Parrots (forthcoming from NeWest Press).

Darusha’s short fiction and poetry have appeared in many venues, including Arsenika, Nature, Escape Pod, and several anthologies.

Darusha is originally from Canada but currently lives in Wellington, New Zealand after spending the past several years sailing the Pacific.

## Work on Escape Artists

Escape Pod

* EP370 The Care and Feeding of Mammalian Bipeds, v. 2.1, read by Christiana Ellis
* EP606 Home Sick, read by Megan Leigh

Cast of Wonders

* CW265 A Wish a Hope and a Dream, read by Setsu Uzume
Melissa Snark

**Melissa Snark** lives in the San Francisco bay area with her husband, three children, and a glaring of litigious felines. She reads and writes fantasy and romance, and is published with The Wild Rose Press & Nordic Lights Press. She is a coffeeoholic, chocoholic, and a serious geek girl. Her Loki’s Wolves series stems from her fascination with wolves and mythology.

## Work on Escape Artists

Pseudopod

* PP589 Flash on the Borderlands XLII: Misanthropes: *A Bar Story,* read by The Kaz
Heather N. Thomas

**Heather N. Thomas** is a jewelry expert by day, and a narrator and aspiring horror writer by night. She is wildly enthusiastic about all things horror, and often can be found scouring through antique shops to add to her macabre collections. “The Stripper” on Pseudopod was her first ever (and first professional!) horror publication.

Heather has narrated various tales for *Chilling Tales for Dark Nights*, the *Creepy* podcast, *The Wicked Library* and other podcasts.

She lives in Denver, Colorado with her husband and her 2 cats.

## Work on Escape Artists

### Pseudopod

* PP616 Flash on the Borderlands XLIV: Objectification - “The Stripper”, read by Nika Harper
* PP622 En Plein Air, by J. T. Glover
L.R. Bonehill

**L.R. BONEHILL** is a writer from the dark heart of England. His work has appeared in various haunts including **Hint Fiction**, **Fifty-Two Stitches**, **This is Horror**, and **Cast Macabre**. He is lucky enough to have been published alongside some of his literary heroes including **Joe R. Lansdale**, **Gary Braunbeck**, and **Peter Straub**. This never ceases to make him smile. He blogs at **Bonehill’s Boneyard**. His latest tale of woe can be found in an upcoming **DARKFUSE** anthology.
Mike Resnick

**Mike Resnick** is an American science fiction writer and was executive editor of *Jim Baen's Universe*. Resnick's style is known for the inclusion of humor; he has probably sold more humorous stories than any science fiction author except Robert Sheckley, and even his most grim and serious stories have frequent unexpected bursts of humor in them. Resnick enjoys collaborating, especially on short stories.

## Work on Escape Artists

Escape Pod

* EP055 Down Memory Lane (2006 Hugo Award nominee), read by Alex Wilson
* EP073 Barnaby in Exile, read by Paul Fischer
* EP082 Travels With My Cats (2005 Hugo Award winner), read by Stephen Eley
* EP092 The Boy Who Yelled "Dragon!" read by Matthew Wayne Selznick
* EP101 The 43 Antarean Dynasties (1998 Hugo Award winner), read by Steven Burley, Gregg Taylor
* EP110 Frankie the Spook, read by Stephen Eley
* EP134 Me and My Shadow, read by Stephen Eley
* EP152 The Big Guy, read by Stephen Eley
* EP156 Distant Replay (2008 Hugo Award nominee), read by Steve Anderson
* EP173 Robots Don't Cry (2004 Hugo Award nominee), read by Stephen Eley
* EP193 Article of Faith (2009 Hugo Award nominee), read by Stephen Eley
* EP246 Bride of Frankenstein (2010 Hugo Award nominee), read by Julie Davis
* EP307 Soulmates, by **Mike Resnick**, Lezli Robyn; read by Dave Thompson
* EP344 The Homecoming (2012 Hugo Award nominee), read by Patrick Bazile

PodCastle

* PC035 Winter Solstice, read by Chris Furst
Parsec Awards

**The Parsec Awards** are a set of annual awards created to recognize excellence in science fiction podcasts and podcast novels. The awards were created by Mur Lafferty, Tracy Hickman and Michael R. Mennenga and awarded by FarPoint Media.

The Parsecs were first presented in 2006 at DragonCon and have since become "one of the most recognizable honors in science and fiction podcasting".

Nominations are accepted from the listening public annually in each of the categories. The list is vetted for eligibility by the steering committee, before producers are invited to submit samples of work for consideration by a panel of judges. The panel reduces the list of nominees to five finalists in each category. The finalists' work is submitted for judging and the winner is selected by that panel of authors, podcasters, and others knowledgeable in the field of speculative fiction, podcasting, and/or publishing. Past finalist judges have included Catherine Asaro, Charles de Lint, Cory Doctorow, and Evo Terra.

*See the full article on Wikipedia, including Current Award Categories and Past Winners.*

## References

1. ↑ Silver, Steven H.; SF Site "Parsec Awards"; "The nominations for the first Parsec Awards, given for science fiction podcasting, have been announced. The winner will be announced at Dragon\*Con, held this year from September 1–4."; August 6, 2008
2. ↑ Sloan, Sam; *Slice of SciFi*; 2006 Parsec Awards Winners; September 6, 2006
3. ↑ Foster, Cymbre; *Traverse City Record-Eagle*; Podcasting with a purpose, December 28, 2007; "The Parsec awards, which began in 2006, are dedicated to rewarding excellence in various aspects of Speculative Fiction Podcasting. They are presented at Dragon\*con, a popular culture convention with a focus that includes science fiction, fantasy and gaming that is held on Labor Day weekend in Atlanta, GA.
4. ↑ *Wired*, 2009 Parsec Awards Nominations Open; April 29, 2009
5. ↑ 365 Days of Astronomy Podcast Wins Prestigious Parsec Award, September 9, 2009 (accessed 8 March 2010)
6. ↑ Parsec Awards 2009 Award Determination Process
7. ↑ 2009 Parsec Judge Biographies Accessed 11 March 2010
Lee Battersby

**Lee Battersby** is the author of three novels and over 80 stories in Australia, Europe, and the US. He is the winner of the Aurealis and Australian Shadows awards for horror fiction, as well as the Australian SF **Ditmar** awards and a White Raven for children’s literature. His work has been praised for its consistent attention to voice and narrative muscle.

He is, sadly, obsessed with Lego, Nottingham Forest football club, dinosaurs and Daleks.

## Work on Escape Artists

### Pseudopod

* PP616 Flash on the Borderlands XLIV: Objectification - “The House of Jack’s Girls”, read by Chloë Yates
Lisa Tuttle

**Lisa Tuttle** began her career as a published writer in the early 1970s, and won the John W. Campbell Award for Best New Science Fiction Writer of the year in 1974. She’s the author of seven novels and more than a hundred short stories. Born and raised in Texas, she has lived in a remote, rural part of Scotland for the past twenty-five years. Her first novel, Windhaven, was a collaboration with George R. R. Martin published in 1981. This was followed by a horror novel, Familiar Spirit, in 1983. Unable to stick to one well-defined genre, although most of her work features elements of horror and/or dark fantasy, she went on to write novels of psychological suspense (Gabriel and The Pillow Friend), science fiction (Lost Futures), and contemporary/mythic fantasy (The Mysteries and The Silver Bough) as well as books for children and young adults, and non-fiction (Encyclopedia of Feminism and Heroines).

Short stories were her first love, and remain important. Her first short story collection, A Nest of Nightmares was published in the U.K. in 1986, and two years later featured in Horror: 100 Best Books edited by Stephen Jones and Kim Newman. Her other collections include A Spaceship Built of Stone and other stories (1987), Memories of the Body: Tales of Desire and Transformation (1992), Ghosts and Other Lovers (2002) and Objects in Dreams (2012). A number of her short stories have appeared in “best of the year” anthologies and been nominated for awards; “Closet Dreams” won the 2007 International Horror Guild Award. She edited an influential anthology of horror stories by women writers, Skin of the Soul, first published in 1990.

## Work on Escape Artists:

Pseudopod

* PP450 The Horse Lord, read by Christiana Ellis
* PP477 Bug House, read by Heather Welliver
John D. Brown

John D. Brown

**John D. Brown** was born in Utah, named after his great-grandfather and spent many years working in the family floral and nursery business. He lives in Laketown, Utah.

Brown explored writing as a student at BYU. In 1996 he won a quarterly first prize in the annual Writers of the Future contest and published his first piece of fiction. From 1997-2002, Brown focused much of his time establishing his career as a business consultant and instructor. In 2002 he attended Orson Scott Card's Literary Boot Camp, after which he continued writing.

In 2008 he signed a three-book contract with Tor Books for an epic fantasy series which begins with *Servant of a Dark God*.

## Work on Escape Artists

### PodCastle

* PC047 Bright Waters, read by Wilson Fowlie
Pamela Rentz

**Pamela Rentz** is a citizen of the Karuk Tribe of California. She has been writing since the beginning of time, and found success in 2007 when she won second prize in Wordstock, the book festival in Portland, Oregon. She used that story to apply to Clarion West and graduated from the workshop in 2008.

She grew up in southern California and graduated from Agoura High School and University of California at Santa Barbara, and completed a paralegal training program through UCLA Extension. Pamela ended up in Portland, Oregon, where she did a number of jobs until her big break as a paralegal working with Indian Tribes and Tribal organizations.

She is married and live in Vancouver, Washington where she grows pumpkins and dahlias and takes pictures of them. No children or pets. I enjoy baking, yoga, organizing, and the Portland Timbers.

## Work on Escape Artists

PodCastle

* PC255 The Medicine Woman of Talking Rock, read by Ada Milenkovic Brown
Loulou Szal

**Loulou Szal** is a school teacher specializing in English and medieval History, but is also a lifelong fan of fantasy, romance and historical fiction. She is also fluent in both English and Arabic. Besides trying to pen her own stories, she is delighted to have multiple narration credits at *StarShipSofa* and now Podcastle. When she was eighteen she managed to track down and interview Mark Hamill for her school magazine. She lives with her husband and two children (one of whom is a writer and editor of science fiction) in sunburnt Sydney, Australia where she’s always on the hunt for antique books to add to her ever growing collection.

## Work on Escape Artists

PodCastle

* PC443 Blueblood (Aurealis Month), by Faith Mudge
* PC446 The Rock In the Water, by Thoriya Dyer; read by Nathalie Cerin & **Loulou Szal**
Ruth EJ Booth

**Ruth EJ Booth** is a BSFA award-winning writer from the North-East of England. Her fiction and poetry can be found in anthologies from NewCon Press, Fox Spirit books, and in Far Horizons e-magazine, amongst others. In 2015, her story ‘The Honey Trap’ won the BSFA’s Award for Best Short Fiction. Academic, musician, yogini and dilettante, she currently resides in Scotland, where she fosters a growing brood of hard and paperbacks. To keep up with her writing and photography (and everything else!), see her website.

## Work on Escape Artists

Pseudopod

* PP549 Flash on the Borderlands XXXVIII - Letting Go: *Good Boy*, read by Andrew Reid
N. K. Jemisin

**N. K. Jemisin** is an author of speculative fiction short stories and novels who lives and writes in Brooklyn, NY. Her work has been nominated for the Hugo (three times), the Nebula (four times), and the World Fantasy Award (twice); shortlisted for the Crawford, the Gemmell Morningstar, and the Tiptree; and she has won a Locus Award for Best First Novel as well as the Romantic Times Reviewer’s Choice Award (three times).

## Work on Escape Artists

Escape Pod

* EP038 L'Alchimista, read by Paul Tevis
* EP114 Cloud Dragon Skies, read by Máia Whitaker
* EP244 Non-Zero Probabilities (2010 Hugo Award nominee), read by Kate Baker
* EP338 The Trojan Girl, read by Mur Lafferty
* EP450 Valedictorian, read by Stephanie Morris

PodCastle

Writing

* PC027 Red Riding-Hood’s Child, read by Rajan Khanna
* PC085 Giant Episode: The Narcomancer, read by Rajan Khanna
* PC154 Sinners, Saints, Dragons, and Haints, in the City Under the Still Waters, read by Laurice White
* PC516c Best of PodCastle #3: Sinners, Saints, Dragons, and Haints, in the City Beneath the Still Waters, read by Laurice White

Narration

* PC056 Shard of Glass, by Alaya Dawn Johnson
* PC111 And Their Lips Rang With The Sun, by Amal El-Mohtar
Nicholas Camm

**Nicholas Camm** is a British actor, audio-book narrator and voice overer. He is just about to begin recording the 7th book in the Eddie Malloy Mystery series, a set of thrillers set in the world of horse racing. He has acted with, in his humble opinion, some notable luminaries, including Derek Jacobi, Ray Winstone and ex Doctor Who, Matt Smith, and has apparently been on the big screen in Times Square, although he wasn’t there to see it. He was recently a holographic mad professor in an experimental theatre piece, and has just finished filming an advert with a famous German footballer (that’ll be soccer for you Yanks!). Nick still ranks the time when Peter Watts emailed him to say, “You f\*#~king nailed it”, about his narration of Pete’s story ‘Malak’ for StarShipSofa, as one of his giddiest moments. One day Nick will stop procrastinating and write a sci-fi novel. Until then there’s hoovering to be done.

## Work on Escape Artists

Escape Pod

* EP533 2016 Flash Fiction Contest Winners: *Shopping for the Perfect Battle Mount*, by Laura Davy
Nina Niskanen

**Nina Niskanen** has lived almost all of her life in the greater Helsinki (Finland) area. She speaks English and Finnish fluently, French and Swedish passably, as well as a few words of German, Spanish, Russian and Japanese. She has been telling stories for as long as she can remember and while writing is a passion, she adores audio fiction and would love the opportunity to help bring it to the masses.

## Work on Escape Artists

PodCastle

* PC468 Sigrid Under the Mountain, by Charlotte Ashley
Jennifer Pelland

**Jennifer Pelland** is an American writer of science fiction, principally short fiction.Pelland's works have been characterized as "dark fiction with a thread of humanity running through it", focusing on themes of body modification and destruction. Her short stories Captive Girl (2007) and Ghosts of New York (2010) were nominated for the Nebula Award for Best Short Story. Captive Girl was also shortlisted for the Gaylactic Spectrum Awards.

Pelland is married. She lives near Boston, practices belly dancing, and is a part-time voice-actor.

## Work on Escape Artists

Escape Pod

* EP005 Snow Day, read by Deborah Green
* EP020 The Burning Bush, read by Deborah Green
* EP129 Immortal Sin, read by Stephen Eley

PodCastle

* PC153 The Ghosts of New York, read by Rashida Smith
Mari Ness

**Mari Ness** has published close to 100 short and flash fiction stories in various publications including Tor.com, Clarkesworld, Daily Science Fiction, and Apex. Her experimental novella, Through Immortal Shadows Singing, is forthcoming from Papaveria Press. She blogs at Tor.com, where she has, amongst other things, compared Disney animated films to their text sources. She lives in central Florida.

Mari's story The Fox Bride was read by Rish Outfield for PodCastle Miniature episode 84.
Misty Dawn

**Misty Dawn** describes herself as part warrior and part pacifist, owing to her Comanche and Cherokee heritage. She credits her mother with encouraging her two greatest loves: music and horror, and H.P. Lovecraft and Stephen King with teaching her to embrace the darkest corners of her imagination, and to coax those things living within to come out and play.

She hopes to create a YouTube channel and is working on redesigning her blog, **Deadtime Musings, from Dusk to Misty Dawn**, to include short stories of horror, both real and imagined as well as poetry and lyrics, also of a dark nature. A Navy brat who grew up abroad, she settled in San Francisco, attending UC Berkeley, where she received a BA in Drama/Communications.

Misty has narrated two stories for Pseudopod:

* PP453 The Toyol, by Joel Arnold
* PP463 Favors From Hell, by Zachary T. Owen
Joshua McNichols

**Joshua McNichols** is a reporter at KUOW Public Radio in Seattle and a co-host of *Prime(d)*, a podcast about what happens when Amazon comes to your town.

## Work on Escape Artists

Escape Pod

* EP289 Flash Contest Honorable Mentions: *Episode 37 – Captain Max Stone versus DESTRUCTOBOT!*, by Angela Lee
* EP284 On a Clear Day You Can See All the Way to Conspiracy, by Desmond Warzel
	+ EP634 Flashback Friday: On a Clear Day You Can See All the Way to Conspiracy
Peter Wood

**This article is a disambiguation page for Peter Wood**

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Please follow one of the disambiguation links below or search to find the page you were looking for if it is not listed. If an internal link led you here, you may wish to change the link to point directly to the intended article.

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* Peter Wood (author)
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Matt Mikalatos

**Matt Mikalatos** is the author of the Sky Lantern letter and book. He works at a non-profit dedicated to helping people live better, fuller lives, and speaks at conferences all over the world.

## Work on Escape Artists

Writing

PodCastle

* PC344 Flash Fiction Extravaganza! Other Worlds Than These, *Portal Worlds and Your Child (A Parent’s Guide)*, read by Peter Wood
Natalia Theodoridou

**Natalia Theodoridou** is a media and theatre scholar based in the UK. She is a finalist for the 2018 World Fantasy Award for Short Fiction, an editor of sub-Q interactive fiction magazine, and a Clarion West graduate (class of 2018).

She has had work published in **Clarkesworld**, **Strange Horizons**, **Beneath Ceaseless Skies**, **Nightmare**, **Fireside**, **Crossed Genres**, **Interfictions**, **The Mammoth Book of SF Stories by Women**, and elsewhere. Find her at **Natalia-Theodoridou.com** and @natalia\_theodor on Twitter.

## Work on Escape Artists

### Escape Pod

* EP484 That Tear Problem, read by Hugo Jackson
* EP550 When They Come Back, read by Ibba Armancas

### Pseudopod

* PP429 Flash On The Borderlands XXIV: Femmes Fatales: "The Bleeding Game" read by Sean D. Sorrentino

### PodCastle

* PC381 The Vandalists, read by Ian Stuart
* PC456 Mateus Goes Higher, read by Thomas Busby
* PC508 The Ravens' Sister, read by Tanja Milojevic
* PC549 Fixer, Worker, Singer, read by Peter Behravesh, Tina Connolly and Jen R. Albert

### Cast of Wonders

* CW140 Of Pumpkin Soup and Other Demons, read by Katherine Inskip
* CW292 Little Wonders 17 - True Selves: *Smokedancing**,* read by Erika Sanderson
Peter Newman

**Pete** is the author of **The Vagrant**, a post-apocalyptic thriller released in 2015 and is the husband of **Emma Newman** (who blogs at **Em’s Place**), author of the wonderful **Split World** series and host of the **Tea & Jeopardy** podcast. Any resemblance between Pete and Lattimer the butler is entirely coincidental. Pete blogs at **Run, Pete, Write!**
Rebecca Fraimow

**Rebecca Fraimow** is an author and archivist living in Boston. Her marketable skills include identifying old videotape formats, typing extremely fast, and stealing ideas from Sholom Aleichem.

## Work on Escape Artists

PodCastle

* PCMini94 Further Arguments In Support Of Yudah Cohen’s Proposal To Bluma Zilberman, read by Richard Dansky
* PC448 Shaina Rubin Keeps Her Head Under Circumstances Nobody Could Have Expected, read by Barbara Krasnoff
Robert Lowell Russell

**Bert Lowe** (aka Robert Lowell Russell) lives with his family in Ohio.

He is a nurse in a cardiovascular unit and a former librarian. Bert likes to write about all sorts of things and frequently includes action and humor in his work. He’s currently working on a series of middle grade novels incorporating his love of mad scientists and not-so-super-heroes.

Bert has had two stories appear on Escape Artists podcasts:

* EP502 Gorlack the Destroyer’s All You Can Eat Adventure, read by Ethan Jones
* CW180 The New Kid Is Not An Alien (as Bert Lowe), read by Jason Arquin
Michael Canfield

**Michael Canfield** has published horror, mystery, suspense, fantasy, science fiction, and just-plain-odd stuff in StrangeHorizons, Escape Pod, Daily Science Fiction, The Pedestal, and other places. His story "Super-Villains" was reprinted in the Fantasy: The Best of the Year series, edited by Rich Horton. Born in Las Vegas, he lives in Seattle and blogs occasionally at MichaelCanfield.net

## Work on Escape Artists

Escape Pod

* EP051 Is You Is/Is You Ain't?, read by Evo Terra
Marie Vibbert

**Marie Vibbert** is a member of SFWA and an IT professional from Cleveland, Ohio. She has ridden 17% of the roller coasters in the United States and played for the Cleveland Fusion women’s tackle football team.

## Work on Escape Artists

Escape Pod

* EP422 Deshaun Stevens' Ship Log, read by Alasdair Stuart
* EP467 Trash, read by Tatiana Gomberg
* EP585 We All Scream, read by Julie Davis

Cast of Wonders

* CW240 Artemis Rising 3 - Cross the Street, read by Roberto Suarez
Lisa Baldinelli

**Lisa Baldinelli** is a 19 year old currently working for her double major in English Literature and History at Southern New Hampshire University.

She has always loved writing ever since she first started doing it for fun in the fourth grade, but has never had the confidence to publish her work until now. Living on campus has fueled more of her creative spark, and she hopes she’ll have the opportunity to share that spark with the world again.

## Work on Escape Artists

### Pseudopod

* PP634 Flash on the Borderlands XLVI: The Accursed and the Monstrous - “Viens Jouer Avec Moi", read by Larissa Thompson
M. E. Garber

**M. E. Garber** grew up reading about hobbits, space-travel, and dragons, so it’s no wonder that she now enjoys writing speculative fiction, and dreams of traveling the world(s). She used to live near the home of Duck Tape, then near the home of Nylabone. Now she lives near the home of Gatorade.

## Work on Escape Artists

Writing

PodCastle

* PC362 Amma's Wishes, read by Marguerite Kenner
Laura Blackwell

**Laura Blackwell** grew up in Grand Forks, North Dakota, and the setting for “Bitter Perfume” is loosely based on it. She now lives in sunny California. She has a horror story in *Strange California*, edited by Jaym Gates and J. Daniel Batt. Laura is a writer of speculative fiction. Most, but not all, of her stories are contemporary fantasy. Her novelettes and short stories have appeared in magazines and in various print and eBook anthologies, including 2015 Locus Recommended and 2016 World Fantasy Award-winning *She Walks in Shadows*. She’s the copy editor for *Shimmer*.

## Work on Escape Artists

Pseudopod

* PP573 Bitter Perfume, read by Emily Smith
Nicole Cushing

### Awards

Bram Stoker Award® for Mr. Suicide; two-time nominee for the Shirley Jackson Award

Nicole Cushing is the Bram Stoker Award® winning author of *Mr. Suicide*and a two-time nominee for the Shirley Jackson Award.

Various reviewers have described her work as “brutal”, “cerebral”, “transgressive”, “taboo”, “groundbreaking” and “mind-bending”. *This Is Horror* has said that she is “quickly becoming a household name for horror fans”. She has also garnered praise from Jack Ketchum, *Rue Morgue*, Thomas Ligotti, John Skipp, S.T. Joshi, Poppy Z. Brite, Ray Garton, *Famous Monsters of Filmland*, and Ain’t It Cool News.

An Italian translation of *Mr. Suicide* (titled *Mister Suicidio*) was recently published by Independent Legions Publishing.

A native of Maryland, Nicole now lives with her husband in Indiana.
L. Sprague de Camp

**Lyon Sprague de Camp** (27 November 1907 – 6 November 2000), better known as L. Sprague de Camp, was an American writer of science fiction, fantasy, non-fiction and biography. In a career spanning 60 years, he wrote over 100 books, including novels and works of non-fiction, including biographies of other fantasy authors. He was a major figure in science fiction during the genre's heyday in the 1930s and 1940s.

## Work on Escape Artists

Escape Pod

* EP397 A Gun for Dinosaur, read by Ayoub Khote