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Nika Harper

Nika Harper is a writer and performer who spends long, solitary nights on the internet because her brain *won’t shut up*. She lives in Los Angeles, CA, where she houses her collection of magic wands and an overwhelming stockpile of empty journals.

You can check to see if she got any new tattoos recently at ThisisNika.com and chat about horror on Twitter @NikaHarper.

## Work on Escape Artists

### Pseudopod

* PP616 Flash on the Borderlands XLIV: Objectification: “The Stripper”, by Heather N. Thomas
* PP629 Slipping Petals from Their Skins, by Kristi Demeester
Phil Rossi

Writer, musician, podcaster, kick-ass husband, and father. A New England native, Phil Rossi is currently a resident of Northern Virginia. When he is not hunkered down in the studio creating, he can be found either out playing rock music in the DC metro area or frolicking with his seven pets.

## Work on Escape Artists

Pseudopod

* PP047 Akropolis, by Matt Wallace
* PP097 Mrs Branson Calling, by Johnny Compton
* PP138 Come to My Arms, My Beamish Boy, by Douglas F. Warrick
* PP162 Suicide Notes, Written by an Alien Mind, by Ferrett Steinmetz
Paul Mannering

Paul Mannering is an award winning writer living in Wellington, New Zealand. Paul has published dozens of short stories and radio plays in a range of genres across many different international markets.  His first collection of short stories, ‘The Man Who Could Not Climb Stairs and Other Strange Stories,’ is available now in print and Kindle format at Amazon

 In 2007 Paul co-founded BrokenSea Audio Productions, which podcasts free audio drama each week to a massive audience. Paul lives with his wife Damaris and their three cats, one of which is a seal-point Siamese with Aspergers.

Tankbread is Paul’s first novel. For Tankbread news and updates visit the blog
Mat Weller

**Mat Weller** is the servant to a lovely family in eastern Pennsylvania. After his wife and kids go to sleep at night, he sometimes re-watches old episodes of *X-Files* on Netflix and other times retires to his basement booth where he records noises that get played on the Internet. Rumor has it he also makes delightful chocolate chip cookies.

Oh, and in October 2014, he beat Metroid II for the first time since 1991.

Mat had the honor of producing for Escape Pod from 2010 to 2016. He is also a graphic designer, an amateur voice actor, an amateur father, and he narrates a growing catalog of books for ACX .

## Work on Escape Artists

### Escape Pod

* EP276 On a Blade of Grass, by Tim Pratt
* EP290 Tom the Universe, by Larry Hodges
* EP295 Disarm, by Vylar Kaftan
* EP312 Night Bird Soaring, by T. L. Morganfield
* EP316 Site Fourteen, by Laura Anne Gilman
* EP326 Flash Fiction Special: "Poppies and Chrome" by Sylvia Hiven
* EP337 Counting Cracks, by George R. Galuschak
* EP342 Certus Per Bellum, by S. Hutson Blount
* EP348 Nemesis, by Nathaniel Lee
* EP359 Chasers, by Scott W. Baker
* EP365 The Garden of Earthly Delights, by Jay Caselberg
* EP379 Concussion, by David Glen Larson
* EP392 Aftermaths, by Lois McMaster Bujold
* EP414 Knowing, by Matt Wallace
* EP424 Biographical Fragments of the Life of Julian Prince, by Jake Kerr (part of full cast)
* EP429 The Little Black Bag, by C.M. Kornbluth
* EP442a Eater of Bone, by Robert Reed
* EP442b Eater of Bone, part 2
* EP446 The Way of the Needle, by Derek Künsken
* EP460 The Ink Readers of Doi Saket (2014 Hugo Award nominee), by Thomas Olde Heuvelt
* EP466 Checkmate, by Brian Trent
* EP480 To the Knife-Cold Stars, by A. Merc Rustad
* EP509 Broken, by Jason Kimble
* EP526 The Hunter Captain, by David John Baker

### Pseudopod

* PP224 The Horror Of Their Deeds To View, by Lizanne Herd
* PP400 The Screwfly Solution, by James Tiptree, Jr. (part of full cast)
* PP474 Mr. Hill's Death, by S.L. Gilbow

Cast of Wonders

* CW209 A Real Stand-Up Guy, by Daniel and Mary E. Lowd

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Nicole Feldringer

**Nicole Feldringer** holds a PhD in atmospheric sciences and a master in geophysics. In 2011, she attended the Viable Paradise Writer’s Workshop, and her fiction has previously appeared in the anthologies Press Start to Play and Loosed Upon the World both edited by John Joseph Adams. She currently lives in Los Angeles.

Nicole's story Leapling was read by Michelle Ristuccia for Cast of Wonders episode 199.
Luciano Marano

**Luciano Marano** is a newspaper reporter, photographer, and author. His award-winning reporting, both written and photographic, has appeared in numerous regional and national publications, and he made his debut as a fiction author in the recent extreme horror anthology “DOA III” (Blood Bound Books, May 2017), appearing alongside such genre icons as Jack Ketchum, Bentley Little and Edward Lee, among others. He lives near Seattle, Washington.

## Work on Escape Artists

Pseudopod

* PP557 'Till the Road Runs Out, read by Dave Robison
Maria Alexander

Maria Alexander is a fiction writer, poet, produced screenwriter, published games writer, award-winning copywriter, and narrative designer. Her dark short stories have appeared since 1999 in publications such as *Chiaroscuro Magazine*, *Gothic.net* and *Paradox*, as well as in acclaimed anthologies alongside legends such as Clive Barker, Neil Gaiman, and Heather Graham.

Her debut novel, *Mr. Wicker*, won the 2014 Bram Stoker Award for Superior Achievement in a First Novel. Publisher’s Weekly called it, “(a) splendid, bittersweet ode to the ghosts of childhood,” while Library Journal hailed it in a Starred Review as “a horror novel to anticipate.”

In Winter 2016, her debut YA urban fantasy suspense novel, *Snowed*, will be released from Raw Dog Screaming Press. She’s represented by Alex Slater at Trident Media Group.

When she’s not wielding a katana at her local shinkendo dojo, she’s being outrageously spooky or writing Doctor Who filk. She lives in Los Angeles with two ungrateful cats, a Jewish Christmas caroller, and a purse called Trog.

## Work on Escape Artists

Pseudopod

* PPBonus Christmas Flash: Coming Home, by **Maria Alexander**; read by the author
Rachel Swirsky

**Rachel Swirsky** was a founding editor of PodCastle, along with Ann Leckie.

Rachel’s short stories have appeared in *Tor*,*Subterranean* *Magazine*, and *Clarkesworld*, and been reprinted in year’s best anthologies edited by Strahan, Horton, Dozois, and the VanderMeers. She holds an MFA in fiction from the Iowa Writers Workshop, and graduated from Clarion West in 2005.

Her short  fiction has been nominated for the Hugo Award, the Locus Award, the World Fantasy Award, and the Sturgeon Award. She’s twice won the Nebula Award, in 2010 for her novella, *The Lady Who Plucked Red Flowers Beneath the Queen’s Window* and in 2014 for her short story, *If You Were a Dinosaur, My Love*.

## Work on Escape Artists

Author

Escape Pod

* EP176 How The World Became Quiet: A Post-Human Creation Myth, ready by Frank Key
* EP213 A Monkey Will Never Get Rid of Its Black Hands, read by Alasdair Stuart
* EP250 Eros, Philia, Agape, read by Mur Lafferty
* EP458 If You Were a Dinosaur, My Love (2014 Hugo Award nominee), read by Christina Lebonville

Pseudopod

* PP083 Heartstrung, read by Heather Welliver

PodCastle

* PC115 Monstrous Embrace, read by Elizabeth Green Musselman
* PC242 Giant Episode: A Memory of Wind, read by Ann Leckie
* PC384 Flash Fiction Extravaganza! Vintage PodCastle: If You Were a Dinosaur, My Love, read by Tina Connolly
* PC500 Maiden, Mother, Crone, by Ann Leckie & **Rachel Swirsky**; read by Wilson Fowlie

Narrator

Escape Pod

* EP221 Little Ambushes by Joanne Merriam

Pseudopod

* PP203 Flash On the Borderlands III: Sight Unseen by R. Scott Shanks, Jr.

PodCastle

* PC003 Run of the Fiery Horse by Hilary Moon Murphy
* PC019 Galatea by Vylar Kaftan
* PC022 Dead Girl’s Wedding March by Cat Rambo
* PCMini010 The Desires of Houses by Haddayr CopleyWoods
* PCMini015 The Voices of Snakes by Karina SumnerSmith
* PC038 In the House of the Seven Librarians by Ellen Klages
* PC043 Sweet, Savage Sorcerer by Esther Friesner
* PCMini027 Faery Cats: The Cutest Killers by Lucy A. Snyder
* PCMini030 Rotations and Consequences by Katherine Sparrow
* PC071 I’ll Give In by Meghan McCarron
* PC118 Sugar by Cat Rambo
* PC200 In The Stacks by Scott Lynch (read by a full cast)
* PC516b Best of PodCastle #4: In the Stacks, by Scott Lynch (read by a full cast)

Cast of Wonders

* CW247 The Golem of Deneb Seven, by Alex Shvartsman
Michael Strickland

**Michael Strickland** has published a handful of short stories in small indie outlets. In addition to *Bigfeet*, his story *Pale Green Pants* — inspired by *What Was I Scared Of?* in Dr. Seuss’ Sneetches and Other Stories — recently appeared in the anthology *Green Eggs and Horror*. By day, Michael wrangles words as a professional copywriter, and you can find him online.

## Work on Escape Artists

Cast of Wonders

* CW121 Little Wonders V: Trope Twists - *Bigfeet*, read by Big Anklevich & Rish Outfield
Patrick Bazile

**Patrick “The Voice” Bazile**was born and raised in Chicago, Illinois. Patrick has voiced everything from PSA’s to major product brand commercials and movie trailers to documentaries. With a deep, commanding voice often referred to as “The Voice of God” Patrick demands attention.

## Work on Escape Artists

Escape Pod

* EP344 The Homecoming (2012 Hugo Award nominee) by Mike Resnick
* EP572 Nothing to See Hear, by Arthur Doweyko

Pseudopod

* PP293 Flash On The Borderlands XII - (Black) Arts & (Dead) Letters: Music on the Michigan Avenue Bridge by Mort Castle
* PP303 Flash On The Borderlands XIII - Responsible Parties: Magnitude Seven by David Glen Larson
* PP333 Gig Marks by Ed Ferrara
* PP464 Fear by Sandra Odell
* PP449 How To Remember by Sylvia Anna Hivén
* PP495 Shut the Final Door, by Joe L. Hensley

Cast of Wonders

* CW245 One Thing Leads to Your Mother, by Desmond Warzel
Lucy A. Snyder

**Lucy A. Snyder** is a five-time Bram Stoker Award-winning author. She wrote the novels *Spellbent, Shotgun Sorceress*, and *Switchblade Goddess*, the nonfiction book *Shooting Yourself in the Head for Fun and Profit: A Writer’s Survival Guide*, and the collections *While the Black Stars Burn, Soft Apocalypses, Orchid Carousals, Sparks and Shadows, Chimeric Machines,* and *Installing Linux on a Dead Badger*.

Her writing has been translated into French, Russian, Italian, Czech, and Japanese editions and has appeared in publications such as *Apex Magazine, Nightmare Magazine, Pseudopod, Strange Horizons, Weird Tales, Scary Out There, Seize the Night,* and *Best Horror of the Year*. She lives in Columbus, Ohio and is faculty in Seton Hill University’s MFA program in Writing Popular Fiction.

## Work on Escape Artists

Escape Pod

* EP028 Your Corporate Network and the Forces of Darkness, read by Rob Walch, Mur Lafferty

Pseudopod

* PP343 Magdala Amygdala, read by Eugie Foster
* PP574 While the Black Stars Burn, read by Tatiana Grey
* PP585 Artemis Rising 4: Cinereous (alternate narration), by Livia Llewellyn

PodCastle

* PCMini027 Faery Cats: The Cutest Killers, read by Rachel Swirsky
Michael Merriam

**Michael Merriam** is an author and spoken-word performer living in Hopkins, Minnesota. His novella, *Should We Drown in Feathered Sleep*, was long-listed for the Nebula Award in 2010, and his novel, *Last Car to Annwn Station* was named a Top Book in 2011 by Readings in Lesbian & Bisexual Women’s Fiction. Michael has appeared on stage in the Minnesota Fringe Festival, Minnesota Storyfest, Story Slam Minnesota, and over the air on KFAI Radio and Minnesota Public Radio. He’s also the co-organizer of the Minnesota Speculative Fiction Writers.

Michael's story Twenty-One was read by John Meagher for Cast of Wonders episode 204.
Mikael Naramore

**Mikael Naramore** is the narrator of over 100 audiobook titles (and counting…) from authors including **Clive Barker**, **Wesley Chu**, **Mark E. Cooper**, and **Ramez Naam**.

Mikael has been performing as an actor and musician since age six. He has worked in the audiobook industry since 2001 absorbing technique and nuance from the best actors in the business.

He was recently chosen to narrate prolific playwright and Oscar-nominated screenwriter Robert Ardrey’s seminal *Nature of Man* series which includes the international best-sellers African Genesis and The Territorial Imperative, titles which reportedly had a very heavy influence on Arthur C. Clarke and Stanley Kubrick in their development of*2001: A Space Odyssey*as well as Kubrick’s adaptation of *A Clockwork Orange.*

Mikael is also an active writer, musician and recording artist, having scored the soundtrack to an independent short film, produced and engineered critically acclaimed rock records, and written, performed and recorded several "silly little lo-fi rock songs" of his own.  He currently resides in the wild and scenic Columbia River Gorge outside of Portland, Oregon with his wife, two small boys and their beloved Golden Retriever.

## Work on Escape Artists

Pseudopod

* PP465 Saturday, by Evan Dicken
Octavia Butler

**Octavia Estelle Butler** (June 22, 1947 – February 24, 2006) was an American science fiction writer. A multiple recipient of both the Hugo and Nebula awards, Butler was one of the best-known women in the field. In 1995, she became the first science fiction writer to receive the MacArthur Fellowship, nicknamed the "Genius Grant".

## Work on Escape Artists

Escape Pod

* EP479 The Evening, The Morning and the Night, read by Amanda Ching
Manly Wade Wellman

**Manly Wade Wellman’s** science fiction and fantasy stories appeared in such pulps as *Astounding Stories*, *Startling Stories*, *Unknown* and *Strange Stories*.

Wellman is best remembered as one of the most popular contributors to the legendary *Weird Tales*, and for his fantasy and horror stories set in the Appalachian Mountains, which draw on the native folklore of that region. Karl Edward Wagner referred to him as “the dean of fantasy writers.” Wellman also wrote in a wide variety of other genres, including historical
fiction, detective fiction, western fiction, juvenile fiction, and non-fiction.

Wellman was a long-time resident of North Carolina. He received many awards, including the World Fantasy Award and Edgar Allan Poe Award. In 2013, the North Carolina Speculative Fiction Foundation inaugurated an award named after him to honor other North Carolina authors of science fiction and fantasy.

Browse Wellman's works at the Manly Wade Wellman Wiki.

## Work on Escape Artists

### Pseudopod

* PP625 The Golgotha Dancers and These Doth The Lord Hate, read by Andrew Leman and Eve Upton
Linda Addison

**Linda Addison** is an American poet and writer of horror, fantasy, and science fiction. Addison is the first African-American winner of the Bram Stoker Award, which she won four times. The first two awards were for her poetry collections *Consumed, Reduced to Beautiful Grey Ashes* (2001) and *Being Full of Light, Insubstantial* (2007). Her poetry and fiction collection *How To Recognize A Demon Has Become Your Friend* won the 2011 Bram Stoker Award for Superior Achievement in a Poetry Collection. She received a fourth HWA Bram Stoker for the collection *The Four Elements*, written with Marge Simon, Rain Graves, and Charlee Jacob. Addison is a founding member of the CITH (Circles in the Hair) writing group. She received the HWA award for mentorship in 2016 and the HWA Lifetime Achievement Award in 2017. She is also intensely fashionable, has the best hairstyles and amazing ink.

Check out a new story by Addison in DARK VOICES: A Lycan Valley Charity Anthology for Breast Cancer, coming out July 2018 from LVP Publications!

## Work on Escape Artists

### Pseudopod

* PP601 Flash on the Borderlands XLIII: The Grinding of Gears - “Am I Repeating Myself?” read by Scott Campbell and Susan Gage
Megan E. O’Keefe

**Megan E. O’Keefe** writes speculative fiction and makes soap for a living — it’s only a little like Fight Club. Her debut novel, STEAL THE SKY, which centers around an airship heist, is due out from Angry Robot Books in Jan. 2016. Visit her website or communicate with her via cat pictures on twitter.

Of Blood And Brine was read by Jacquie Duckworth for PodCastle epsidoe 382.
Liz Argall

**Liz Argall** often writes speculative fiction and interstitial work that explore spaces between genres. She is especially fond of gritty urban fantasy, thought provoking science fiction and fantastical literary fiction.

Liz carves out a diverse career as a freelance writer, working with organisations to build communities and running workshops. Liz has run creative workshops for a range of organisations, including the National Museum of Australia, Conflux and the Young Music Society. She works with organisations to prepare and acquit grants, and to build physical and online communities. She has worked on and off as an Artists’ Model for ten years. Before she became a freelancer she worked as researcher, union organiser, refuge worker, circus manager and provided consulting and support to the community sector.

Liz’s comics have been published in an array of publications, including Meanjin, The Girl’s Guide to Guy Stuff, Eat Comics, Something Wicked and her collection Songs, Dreams and Nightmares. Her anthology, Dreams of Tomorrow, won a Bronze Ledger Award for Small Press of the Year. In January 2009 her musical Comic Book Opera, written with composer Michael Sollis, was performed for the first time. Two of her short stories have been staged as plays.

She splits her life between Australia and America – some day she hopes to live in other parts of the alphabet. After serving as a Non Skating Official with the Rat City Rollergirls for three seasons she has transformed into skater and announcer. When she’s on the track you can call her Betsy Nails, when you hear her over the mic she’s Ichabod ‘splain.

## Work on Escape Artists

Escape Pod

* EP505 Falling Leaves, read by Emily Hickson

Pseudopod

* PP264 A Study In Flesh And Mind, read by Philippa Ballantine

PodCastle

* PC202 The Rugged Track, read by Tina Connolly
* PC264 Mermaid’s Hook, read by Julia Rios
Rob Walch

**Rob Walch** was inducted into the Podcast Hall of Fame in 2016. He is the VP of Podcaster Relations with Libsyn and hosts the podCast411 podcast. His books, “Podcast 101” and “Tricks of the Podcasting Masters,” are available on Amazon and iBooks.

## Work on Escape Artists

Escape Pod

* EP028 Your Corporate Network and the Forces of Darkness, by Lucy A. Snyder; read by **Rob Walch**, Mur Lafferty
Laurice White

**Laurice White** is a recent theater graduate and long time theater student, and has read stories for *Podcastle*, *Pseudopod,*and most recently for John Joseph Adams and Hugh Howey on *The End is Nigh* and *The End is Now*, the first two volumes of The Apocalypse Triptych.

## Work on Escape Artists

### Escape Pod

* EP568 Artemis Rising 3 - Dr. Mbalu and the Butcher's Daughter, by Megan Chaudhuri

### Pseudopod

* PP246 The Eater, by Michael J. DeLuca
* PP276 Our Drunken Tjeng, by Nicky Drayden
* PP347 Flash On The Borderlands XVI: Trial & Discipline: “Awaiting Redemption” by Maurice Broaddus
* PP513 Flash on the Borderlands XXXIV: Interstices - “The Void”, by Thomas Vicinanzo
* PP532 Artemis Rising 3 - Flash on the Borderlands XXXVI: “Standard Procedure”, by Dagny Paul

### PodCastle

* PC154 Sinners, Saints, Dragons, and Haints, in the City Under the Still Waters, by N.K. Jemisin (reissued as PC503 and as Best of PodCastle #3, episode PC516c)
* PC174 The Parable of the Shower, by Leah Bobet
* PC233 Study, For Solo Piano, by Genevieve Valentine
* PC393 Harlequin Moon, by Jennifer Hykes
* PC533 The Choking Kind, by Eden Royce

### Cast of Wonders

* CW176 Makeisha in Time, by Rachael K. Jones
L. Frank Baum

**Lyman Frank Baum** (May 15, 1856 – May 6, 1919), better known by his pen name **L. Frank Baum**, was an American author chiefly known for his children's books, particularly The Wonderful Wizard of Oz. He wrote thirteen novel sequels, nine other fantasy novels, including: 55 novels in total, plus four "lost works", 83 short stories, over 200 poems, an unknown number of scripts, and many miscellaneous writings. He made numerous attempts to bring his works to the stage and screen.

A century before such things were commonplace, he anticipated advances such as television, augmented reality, laptop computers (The Master Key), wireless telephones (Tik-Tok of Oz), women in high risk, action-heavy occupations (Mary Louise in the Country), and the ubiquity of advertising on clothing (Aunt Jane's Nieces at Work).

## Work on Escape Artists

PodCastle

* PC287 Tiktok and the Nome King, read by Bob Eccles
Richard Dansky

**Richard E. Dansky** is the author of several novels and a video game designer who works for Ubisoft.

## Work on Escape Artists

Author

Pseudopod

* PP002 Good Advice, read by Matthew Wayne Selznick
* PP064 Connecting Door, read by George Hrab

Narrator

Escape Pod

* EP326 Flash Fiction Special: *Rabbi Aaron Meets Satan*, by Tim Lieder

Pseudopod

* PP051 Brothers, by J. C. Hay
* PP103 Geist, by Chandler Kaiden

PodCastle

* PCMini94 Further Arguments In Support Of Yudah Cohen’s Proposal To Bluma Zilberman, by Rebecca Fraimow
Sam J. Miller

**Sam J. Miller** is a writer and a community organizer. His fiction is in Lightspeed, Asimov’s, Clarkesworld, and The Minnesota Review, among others. He is a nominee for the Nebula and Theodore Sturgeon Awards, a winner of the Shirley Jackson Award, and a graduate of the Clarion Writer’s Workshop. His debut dark, edgy, fucked-up young adult science fiction novel THE ART OF STARVING is forthcoming from HarperCollins. He lives in New York City, and at Sam J. Miller where you can find a whole bunch of his stories.

## Work on Escape Artists

Pseudopod

* PP496 Nothing Is Truly Yours, read by Karen Bovenmyer
Paul S. Jenkins

**Paul S. Jenkins** – has narrated for **Escape Pod**, **Pseudopod** and **PodCastle** a number of times (he was honoured to be asked to narrate the very first **PodCastle** episode!). His science fiction podcast novel **THE PLITONE REVISIONIST** is available for free at **Podiobooks.com**. His maintyains healthy skepticism with his skeptical blog **NOTES FROM AN EVIL BURNEE** and his skeptical podcast **SKEPTICULE** (aka “**The Three Pauls Podcast**“).

## Work on Escape Artists

Escape Pod

* EP045 Are You Ready For the End of the World?, by Danny Adams (read by **Paul S. Jenkins** and Tee Morris
* EP050 The Malcontent, by Stephen Eley

PodCastle

* PC001 Come Lady Death, by Peter S. Beagle
* PC034 Clad In Gossamer, by Nancy Kress
* PCMini034 The Orange, by Benjamin Rosenbaum
* PC069 The Olverung, by Stephen Woodworth
* PC087 Narrative of a Beast’s Life, by Cat Rambo
* PC125 The Whistling Room, by William Hope Hodgson
* PC138 Balfour and Meriwether in the Adventure of the Emperor’s Vengeance, by Daniel Abraham
* PC179 The Gateway of the Monster (Featuring Carnacki), by William Hope Hodgson
* PC191 Balfour and Meriwether in The Vampire of Kabul, by Daniel Abraham
* PC325 Down, by Christopher Fowler
* PC341 Giant Episode: Balfour And Meriwether In The Incident Of The Harrowmoor Dogs, by Daniel Abraham

Pseudopod

* PP005 Sacred Skin, by Michael Stone
* PP018 Oranges, Lemons and Thou Beside Me, by Eugie Foster
* PP050 Everyone Carries a Shadow, by Stephen Gaskell
* PP063 The Western Front, by Patrick Samphire
* PP198 The Mother and the Worm, by Tim W. Burke
* PP231 Tippler's Bane, by Evelyn Wang, read by **Paul S. Jenkins** & Eve Upton
* PP315 Bad Company, by Walter de la Mare
* PP373 The Metal and Its Mold, by Tim W. Burke
* PP374 Flash on the Borderlands XIX: Blood On The Tracks – Departure, Transit, Arrival: *Midnight Express,* by Alfred Noyes
* PP493 The Last Escapement, by James Smythe
* PP494 The Voyage & The Ship, by Tim W. Burke
* PP525 Cold Print, by Ramsey Campbell
* PP599 The Boy With the Glass Eyes, by J. L. Flannery
Robert W. Chambers

**Robert W. Chambers** (1865 – 1933) was an American artist and writer. He studied art in Paris and sold illustrations to *Life*, *Truth*, and *Vogue* magazines. His first novel, *In the Quarter* (1887) was influenced by the Decadent writers and in 1895 he published *The King in Yellow*, a collection of Art Nouveau short stories. This included several famous weird short stories which are connected by the theme of a fictitious drama, “The King in Yellow”, which drives those who read it insane. E. F. Bleiler described *The King in Yellow* as one of the most important works of American supernatural fiction and it was also strongly admired by H.P. Lovecraft and his circle.

A later story, “The Maker of Moons” from 1896, features a U.S. Government department dedicated to battling the titular supernatural menace and presages much of the action and Yellow Peril threats of the later pulp magazines. Chambers eventually moved into a successful – and more remunerative – career writing romance fiction.

## Work on Escape Artists

### Pseudopod

* PP364 The Yellow Sign, read by B.J. Harrison
* PP632 The Harbour Master, read by B.J. Harrison
The Word Whore

**The Word Whore** runs Air Out My Shorts with Preston Buttons. Both have narrated stories for Escape Artists.

This is an intermittent humor podcast which includes a not insignificant amount of booze and fiction of dubious quality. They are the patron saints of the Submissions Staff, the holiest of the slush pile. It is rumored that candles with religious imagery have been purchased at a gas stations and renegade modifications with AOMS fan art have been used to modify them. They are burned by submissions staff while conducting reviews.

## Work on Escape Artists

Escape Pod

* EP039 My Friend is a Lesbian Zombie, by Eugie Foster
* EP052 Single White Farmhouse, by Heather Shaw
* EP098 Just Do It, by Heather Lindsley
* EP111 Mayfly, by Heather Lindsley
* EP355 Grandmother, by Cat Rambo
* EP366 Some of Them Closer, by Marissa Lingen

Pseudopod

* PP058 Among Their Bright Eyes, by Alaya Dawn Johnson
* PP082 The Language of Crows, by Mary E. Choo
* PP113 Furnace Room Lullaby, by Leah Bobet
* PP214 Wendigo, by Micaela Morrissette
* PP305 Pumpkinhead, by Rajan Khanna
* PP425 Works Of Art, by Nina Kiriki Hoffman
* PP470 The Santa Claus Parade, by Helen Marshall
* PP564 Hello, Handsome, by Garrett Cook

PodCastle

* PC402 Opals and Clay, by Nino Cipri
Monidipa Mondal

**Monidipa (Mimi) Mondal** is a writer of the poetic and the fantastic. Her stories have appeared in PodCastle, Daily Science Fiction, WisCon Chronicles Vol. 9, and other publications. She is the recipient of the Octavia E. Butler Scholarship for the Clarion West Writing Workshop in 2015, and the Poetry with Prakriti Prize in 2010.

Professionally, she is trained as an editor, having worked with Penguin Books India between 2012 and 2013, and been a Commonwealth Scholar in Publishing Studies at the University of Stirling, Scotland between 2013 and 2015.
Neil John Buchanan

Neil John Buchanan lives in the south west of England with two manic cats, two small children and a long-suffering, sympathetic wife. He is a horror fiction writer with work published in various online and print venues, including Pseudopod, Drabblecast, Necrotic Tissue, and the Terminal Earth anthology.

In 2010 he was nominated for the pushcart prize for his short story, ‘Waiting on the Road to Palladium’, and when not thinking up inventive ways to describe dead folk can be found interviewing famous people at Starburst magazine. They give him free stuff which is rather cool, and he hangs around pretending to look busy. He’s rather fond of this Julian Glover interview.

Neil was first drawn to the paranormal and all things that go bump in the night when his father let him watch Zombie Flesh Eaters at the tender age of eight. He has a Zombie Contingency Plan for each home he has ever lived in and advises you to do the same.
L. P. Lee

**L. P. Lee** grew up somewhere in between South London and South Korea. Her fiction has been nominated for the Pushcart Prize, selected for Best New Horror #27 (ed. Stephen Jones), and featured in Virtual Futures Salons (Lights of Soho, UK). Her short stories have appeared in magazines and anthologies including Popshot Magazine, Litro, and The British Fantasy Society. Her work is forthcoming in The Mammoth Book of Best New Horror (Volume 27), Scrutiny and The Singularity.

## Work on Escape Artists

PodCastle

* PC452 Hibakusha, read by Setsu Uzume
* PC492 The White Fox, read by Alexa Ahn
Mandaly Louis-Charles

**Mandaly Louis-Charles** has been running the Haitian Creole Blog for five years now and is an advocate for the Creole language. The blog promotes the Haitian Creole language to foreigners and natives. He also runs a Twitter account that publishes daily Haitian Creole words and terms for native and foreigners.

Mandaly just completed a project creating the first ever Creole alphabet song and animated video for the Creole language as the alphabet is unknown to most Haitians at this time. This successful project was done in collaboration with MIT linguistics professor Michel Degraff. Info on the alphabet Creole song may be found on the Haitian Creole blog.

## Work on Escape Artists

### Escape Pod

* EP436 Into the Breach, by Malon Edwards (re-released as Flashback Friday EP656)
* EP631 Heart of Ash, Heart of Steam, by Malon Edwards

### PodCastle

* PC387 The Half Dark Promise, by Malon Edwards
* PC495 Shadow Man, Sack Man, Half Dark, Half Light, by Malon Edwards
* PC555 Candied Sweets, Cornbread, and Black-Eyed Peas, by Malon Edwards
Scott R. Jones

**Scott R. Jones** is the author of When The Stars Are Right: Towards An Authentic R’lyehian Spirituality (a bio-ethnographical work of “gleeful nihilism”, examining Lovecraft’s Great Old Ones from a neo-Gnostic spiritual perspective); I have stories upcoming in the anthologies The Summer of Lovecraft (Chaosium), Fossil Lake 2, Flesh Like Smoke (April Moon Books), and Australia’s Andromeda Spaceways Inflight Magazine. I live in Victoria BC with my wife and two frighteningly super-intelligent spawn. He has edited an anthology for Martian Migraine Press RESONATOR: New Lovecraftian Tales From Beyond, featuring stories revolving around the Tillinghast Resonator (or technologies and processes like it). RESONATOR will be available in print and electronic formats from most major retailers and showcases the talents of Cody Goodfellow, Anya Martin, Scott Nicolay, Orrin Grey, Damir Salkovic, and Christine Morgan, among others.
Sean D. Sorrentino

**Sean D. Sorrentino** lives in the Raleigh, North Carolina area with his wife and his dogs.

### Pseudopod

* PP429 Flash On The Borderlands XXIV: Femmes Fatales: “The Bleeding Game” by Natalia Theodoridou

### PodCastle

* PC347 Flash Fiction Extravaganza: Great Power, Greater Responsibilities: “The Colors,” by John M. Shade
* PC376 Ink, by Sandra M. Odell
* PC390 Flash Fiction Extravaganza: Bears: “My Wife is a Bear in the Morning” by David Steffen
Steve Vernon

**STEVE VERNON** has had stories appear in **The Horror Show**, **Cemetery Dance**, **Flesh and Blood**, **Chthulhu Sex**, Karl Edward Wagner’s **YEAR’S BEST HORROR**, **HOT BLOOD XIII** and many other anthologies, magazines and the occasional men’s room wall. Keep up with Steve Vernon’s writing at his blog **YOURS IN STORYTELLING**.
Vonnie Winslow Crist

**Vonnie Winslow Crist** is an author and illustrator living in a rural Maryland. She is editor of The Gunpowder Review and senior editor at Pole to Pole Publishing, a speculative fiction small press.

Vonnie’s books include The Enchanted Skean (a Compton Crook Award Finalist), Owl Light, The Greener Forest, and Leprechaun Cake & Other Tales. Her short fiction has been published in Chilling Ghost Short Stories, Tales of the Talisman, Dia de los Muertos, Faerie Magazine, and elsewhere.

Vonnie’s paintings have been featured on the covers of Bards and Sages, FrostFire Worlds, Outposts of Beyond, Illumen, and Scifikuest. A cloverhand who has found so many four-leafed clovers she keeps them in jars, Vonnie strives to celebrate the power of myth in her writing and art.

Her story Henkie’s Fiddle was read by Andrew Reid for Cast of Wonders episode 202.
Sean Ganus

**Sean Ganus** lives and work in Macon, Georgia. He’s a struggling writer and graduate student, currently working on his Master’s in School Psychology, though with any luck he’ll have wrapped that up by the time this story is released. He passes the time by working in a coffee shop. He’s previously written book reviews for the UK-based Horrifically Horrifying Horror Blog, and he’s tremendously thankful to its founder Emma Audsley for giving him the opportunity to be a part of her amazing website. His only other published (or, rather, produced) work is the short story “Write Away,” featured on the October 24, 2014 episode of “Tales to Terrify.” He posts original writings on his blog, “Writing Myself Into a Hole,” and runs ongoing horror serials from his Twitter handle, @TweetTheHorror. He’s in the process of revising his first novel, and a small film company he runs with a close friend has just finished production on two independent horror films: “The Last Haunted House” and “The Rabbits.”

## Work on Escape Artists

Pseudopod

* PP497 Killer, read by Jen R. Albert
T.R. North

**T.R. North** was born and raised in Florida and has never been featured in a “News of the Weird” column run in another state. Other works of short fiction can be found in the *Sediments Literary-Arts Journal*, *Metaphorosis*, and *Phantaxis*.

## Work on Escape Artists

Pseudopod

* PP558 Toward the Banner of the King, read by Justine Eyre
Lisa Hicks

**Lisa Hicks** is an audiobook narrator for ACX-Audible, a voice coach and a theatre director. She also teaches theatre studies at an international school in Waterloo, Belgium. In her spare time, she loves to take long walks, buds firmly planted in ears, listening to audiobooks and podcasts.

## Work on Escape Artists

PodCastle

* PC507 The Rocket Farmer, by Julie C. Day
William Butler Yeats

**William Butler Yeats** (13 June 1865 – 28 January 1939) was an Irish poet and one of the foremost figures of 20th-century literature. A pillar of both the Irish and British literary establishments, he helped to found the Abbey Theatre, and in his later years served as an Irish Senator for two terms, and was a driving force behind the Irish Literary Revival along with Lady Gregory, Edward Martyn and others.

He was born in Sandymount, Ireland and educated there and in London. He spent childhood holidays in County Sligo and studied poetry from an early age when he became fascinated by Irish legends and the occult. These topics feature in the first phase of his work, which lasted roughly until the turn of the 20th century. His earliest volume of verse was published in 1889, and its slow-paced and lyrical poems display Yeats's debts to Edmund Spenser, Percy Bysshe Shelley, and the poets of the Pre-Raphaelite Brotherhood. From 1900, his poetry grew more physical and realistic. He largely renounced the transcendental beliefs of his youth, though he remained preoccupied with physical and spiritual masks, as well as with cyclical theories of life. In 1923, he was awarded the Nobel Prize in Literature.

## Work on Escape Artists

Pseudopod

* PP273 The Crucifixion of the Outcast, read by Wilson Fowlie
Sam Ferree

**Sam Ferree** by day writes grants and copy for a small environmental nonprofit in the Twin Cities. By night, he scribbles stories, plays, and essays, when not procrastinating. He shares an apartment with a poet and two cats. Also, Sam has accidentally become very involved in the local storytelling community, serving as host of Story Club Minneapolis and board secretary of Story Arts of Minnesota. To learn more about Sam, visit his website Samferree.com or follow him on Twitter @samferree.
Lou Morgan

**Lou** is an old, dear friend and the author of three novels to date, **Blood and Feathers**, **Blood and Feathers: Rebellion** (There may be a supporting character in there you find slightly familiar…) and **Sleepless**, a chillingly good YA horror novel. She’s also the author of numerous short stories, including one of the best Mummy stories I’ve ever read and is an Archer although, to the best of my knowledge, her frequent trips to Starling City have not been confirmed. She blogs: **here**.
Sabrina Vourvoulias

**Sabrina Vourvoulias** is the author of Ink (Crossed Genres, 2012), a novel that draws on her memories of Guatemala’s armed internal conflict, and of the Latinx experience in the United States. It was named to Latinidad’s Best Books of 2012.

Her short stories have appeared at Uncanny Magazine, Tor.com, Strange Horizons, Crossed Genres, and in a number of anthologies, including Long Hidden: Speculative Fiction from the Margins of History, The Year’s Best Young Adult Speculative Fiction 2015, and Latin@ Rising.

She is also freelance op-ed columnist whose commentaries have appeared at Philly.com, Philadelphia Weekly, Philadelphia Magazine, City and State Pennsylvania, and The Guardian US, among others.

She lives in Pennsylvania with her husband, daughter and a dog who rules the household.

## Work on Escape Artists

PodCastle

* PC506 La Gorda and the City of Silver, read by Sandra Espinoza
Victorya Chase

**Victorya Chase** is a writer and a teacher.  She has taught doctors how to write poetry.  She has taught fiction classes to university students.  She has taught adults how to write about themselves.

She loves creative writing research and has published in that realm.  She has also presented at conferences across the country, both academic and in the speculative realm.

Victorya's story Bioluminescent Memory was read by Serah Eley for Escape Pod episode 522, capping off the second Artemis Rising event in 2016.
Setsu Uzume

**Setsu Uzume** is an author and narrator.

#### Pseudopod

* PP459 Flash On The Borderlands XXVII: What’s The Matter With Kids Today: “Mother” by Lynette Mejia
* PP537 A World of Bones, by Brian Trent
* PP570 The Jamcoi, by J.M. McDermott

#### PodCastle

* PC380 Spirit Forms Of The Sea, by Bogi Takács
* PC401 The Color of Regret, by Carrie Patel
* PC437 The Cruelest Team Will Win, by Mike Allen
* PC445 In Mixcoatl's Net, by Charlie Allison
* PC452 Hibakusha, by L.P. Lee
* PC461 Artemis Rising 3 - Fated Ink, by Siobhan Gallegher
* PC463 A Dozen by Dunsany: “The Sphinx at Giza” by Lord Dunsany
* PC464 Needle Mouth, by Bonnie Jo Stufflebeam
* PC480 All Of The Cuddles With None Of The Pain, by J. J. Roth; read with full cast
* PC522 Extinctions, by Lina Rather
* PC537 To the Moon, by Ken Liu (read by a full cast)
* PC540 Flash Fiction Extravaganza! The Three Phases of Equinox: “The Mooncakes of My Childhood”, by Y. M. Pang
* PC545 The Aunties Return the Ocean, by Chris Kuriata
* PC556 Shadow Boy, by Lora Gray

#### Cast of Wonders

* CW257 Little Wonders 13 - Death: “The Black Veils”, by Jenny Rae Rappaport
* CW265 A Wish a Hope and a Dream, by M. Darusha Wehm
Richard S. Crawford

**Richard S. Crawford** is a writer and web developer who lives in an appropriately ancient and drafty house in Sacramento, California. In his time Richard has worked as a video store clerk, a barista, a secretary, a street actor at the Renaissance Faire, and a number of other jobs all leading up to the glamorous and jet-setting life as a full-time Linux/Apache/MySQL/PHP developer. He holds a degree in Philosophy from UC Davis and isn’t afraid to use it.

## Work on Escape Artists

Pseudopod

* PP008 Indications, read by Paul Fischer
* PP253 Trying To Stay Dead, read by Steve Anderson
Sara Saab

**Sara Saab** was born in Beirut, Lebanon. She now lives in North London, where she has perfected her resting London face. Her current interests are croissants and emojis thereof, amassing poetry collections, and coming up with a plausible reason to live on a sleeper train.

Sara’s a 2015 graduate of the Clarion Writers’ Workshop.
Susie Rodriguez

Susie is an associate editor for Cast of Wonders, and the home schooling mom of what she calls a "perpetual motion machine" and her husband calls, "our seven year old, why are you being weird?" She spends her time at the local ice rink watching her competitive figure skater train, planning local conventions and contemplating her half-finished novel and global domination. Her world is filled with rowdy girls, thoughtful boys and insufficient cheese.

She lives with her husband, daughter and adult son in Northern California.
Tanja Milojevic

**Tanja Milojevic** is originally from Serbia but has been in the U.S. since the age of 5. She has been voice acting since her senior year of high school and can be heard all over including Koach Studios’ Ancestry, You Are Here, 11th Hours’ Heavenly Deception, What’s the Frequency, Broken Sea Audio Productions, Greater Boston, 19 Nocturne Boulevard, and Edict Zero. She produces her own radio dramas and posts them to her podcast LightningBolt Theater of the mind (click the link – we dare you). She says “I’m visually impaired and have ROP and Glaucoma, but use gold wave and Sound Forge to record and post-produce my audio.”

## Work on Escape Artists

### Pseudopod

* PP288 The White Dog, by Fyodor Sologub
* PP336 The Abyss, by Leonid Andreyev

### PodCastle

* PC355 Flock, by Caspian Gray
* PC490 The Names of the Sky, by Matthew Claxton
* PC508 The Ravens' Sister, by Natalia Theodoridou
* PC551 The Blue Widow, by J. P. Sullivan
Thomas Welsh

**Thomas Welsh** lives in Glasgow, Scotland and has written fiction for two years now. His first novel Anna Undreaming – the first part of the Metiks Fade fantasy trilogy – will be released in January 2018. You can find out more about his published short fiction and prize-winning short stories on his website.

## Work on Escape Artists

Pseudopod

* PP601 Flash on the Borderlands XLIII: The Grinding of Gears - *Suicide Vending Machine,* read by Siobhan Gallichan
Lisa M. Bradley

**Lisa M. Bradley** was forged in the scalding heat of South Texas, and she now lives in Iowa with her spouse, child, and two cats. More of her imaginings, always inflected by her Latina heritage, are forthcoming in Solarpunk Press, Strange Horizons, and the Sunvault anthology. Her collection of short fiction and poetry is The Haunted Girl (Aqueduct Press). For more, follow her on Twitter (@cafenowhere) or visit her website: www.lisambradley.com.

## Work on Escape Artists

PodCastle

* PC435 Bilingual, or Mouth to Mouth, read by Roberto Suarez
The Kaz

**Kaz** is actually three tentacles in a trench coat, able to mimic human speech through an obscure loophole in Eldritch Noise Ordinances. By day, Kaz pretends to be a member of the terrestrial band When Ukuleles Attack.

## Work on Escape Artists

Pseudopod

* PP589 Flash on the Borderlands XLII - Misanthropes: *A Bar Story,* by Melissa Snark
Vash Bloodfrost

**Vashtriel O. Bloodfrost**

Because she identifies as a GenderQueer TransFemale, Vash doesn’t want anyone who wanders into zhur Twitter to mistake zhur deep voice with an accidental address.

“I’ve wholly found peace with who and what I am by not being what I’m not and, ironically, *Octavius Bound* has re-affirmed that we can’t afford to be defined by our sorrows and regrets…as they can kill us.”

## Work on Escape Artists

Pseudopod

* PP255 Flash on the Borderlands IX – It’s War!: *King*, by C. Deskin Rink; read by V.O. Bloodfrost
* PP440 Octavius Bound, by Nathan Ehret; read by **Vash Bloodfrost** and Jen Rhodes

PodCastle

* PC187 Ties of Silver, by James L. Sutter; read by V.O. Bloodfrost
* PCMini065 Blood Willows, by Caroline M. Yoachim; read by Vashtriel Bloodfrost
Vylar Kaftan

Vylar Kaftan writes speculative fiction of all genres, including science fiction, fantasy, horror, and slipstream. She won a 2013 Nebula Award for her novella “The Weight of the Sunrise”, as well as a 2013 Sidewise Award for Short-Form Alternate History. She was also nominated for a 2010 Nebula Award for her short story “I’m Alive, I Love You, I’ll See You in Reno.”

Her stories have appeared in *Lightspeed, Strange Horizons, Asimov’s*, and *Clarkesworld*. Her work has been reprinted in *Horror: The Best of the Year*, honorably mentioned in *The Year’s Best Fantasy and Horror*, and shortlisted for the WSFA Small Press Award.

A graduate of Clarion West, she’s volunteered for that group as well as the Little Owls mentoring program for young writers. She’s a member of SFWA, Codex, Broad Universe, and the Carl Brandon Society. In 2011, she founded **FOGcon**, a new literary-themed science fiction and fantasy convention in the San Francisco Bay Area. She blogs at VylanKaftan.com.

She lives with her husband Shannon in northern California. Her hobbies include modern-day temple dancing and preparing for a major earthquake. Her favorite color is all of them. She prefers the term “differently sane.”
Sara Tolbert

**Sara Tolbert** studied acting at Grinnell College and the National Theater Institute at the Eugene O'Neill Center.  She has narrated podcasts for Drabblecast, Fantasy, Escape Pod, Pseudopod, and PodCastle.  In addition to voice acting, she enjoys performing in live theater and has earned a regional award from the Rocky Mountain Theater Association for her work. Sarah currently lives in Kansas with her amazing husband and adorable son.

## Work on Escape Artists

Narration

PodCastle

* PCMini49 Dead Letter, by Samantha Henderson

Escape Pod

* EP226 Pirate Solutions, by Katherine Sparrow
* EP438 Enjoy the Moment, by Jack McDevitt

Pseudopod

* PP163 I Am Your Need, by Mort Castle
Sandra M. Odell

**Sandra M. Odell** lives in Washington state with her husband, sons, and an Albanian Miniature Moose disguised as a dog. Her work has appeared in such venues as Pseudopod, PodCastle, The Drabblecast, *Crossed Genres*, *Jim Baen’s UNIVERSE*, *Daily Science Fiction*, *Ideomancer*, and *Galaxy’s Edge*. She is a Clarion West 2010 graduate, and an active member of the SFWA.

Her collection of speculative fiction holiday stories, *The Twelve Ways of Christmas*, is available from Hydra House Books. Her second short story collection, *Broken In Beautiful Ways*, is scheduled for release from Hydra House Books in early 2018. She is currently hard at work on plotting her second novel. Or world domination. Whichever comes first.

## Work on Escape Artists

### Writing

#### Pseudopod

* PP229 On Being Mandy, read by Tina Connolly
* PP436 Flash On The Borderlands XXV: Simulacra: Used, read by Matt Arnold
* PP464 Fear, read by Patrick “The Voice” Bazile
* PP536 Artemis Rising 3 - Meat, read by Linda Hamilton
* PP586 Artemis Rising 4: For Fear of Little Men, read by Alasdair Stuart

#### PodCastle

* PC376 Ink, read by Sean D. Sorrentino
* PC433 Telling Stories, read by Julie C. Day
* PC539 Godfall, read by Anson Mount

#### Cast of Wonders

* CW83 The Dictionary’s Apprentice, read by Graeme Dunlop
* CW182 A Troll's Trade, read by Wilson Fowlie
* CW238 Artemis Rising 3 - The Absolute Temperature of Outer Space, read by Khaalidah Muhammad-Ali
* CW267 Banned Books Week: For, read by Dagny Paul
Ted Chiang

Ted Chiang (Chinese name 姜峯楠 [Chiang Feng-nan]) is an American science fiction writer.

His work has won four Nebula awards, four Hugo awards, the John W. Campbell Award for Best New Writer, and four Locus awards. His short story "Story of Your Life" was the basis for the 2016 film *Arrival*.

## Work on Escape Artists

### PodCastle

* PC040 Hell is the Absence of God (PodCastle Giant), read by James Trimarco

### Escape Pod

* EP194 Exhalation, read by Ray Sizemore (thanks to the kind permission of StarShipSofa)
Victoria Sandbrook

**Victoria Sandbrook** is a fantasy writer, freelance editor, and Viable Paradise XVIII graduate. You can find her work at Shimmer, in Sword & Steam Short Stories, and now on Cast of Wonders. She is an avid hiker, sometimes knitter, long-form talker, and initiate baker. She often loiters around libraries, checking out anything from picture books to monographs. She spends most of her days attempting to wrangle a ferocious, destructive, jubilant tiny human. Victoria, her husband, and their daughter live in Brockton, Massachusetts. She reviews books and shares writerly nonsense at victoriasandbrook.com and on Twitter.

## Work on Escape Artists

### PodCastle

* PC563 El Cantar de la Reina Bruja, read by Sofia Quintero

### Cast of Wonders

* CW256 Phalium Arium Ssp, Amans, read by Katherine Inskip
Siobhan Gallegher

**Siobhan Gallagher** is a wannabe zombie slayer, currently residing in the Forever City. Her fiction has appeared in over thirty publications, including AE – The Canadian Science Fiction Review, On Spec, Abyss & Apex, Unidentified Funny Objects anthology, and Grimdark Magazine.

## Work on Escape Artists

PodCastle

* PC461 Artemis Rising 3 - Fated Ink, read by Setsu Uzume