Cast of Wonders Creators & Guests

Marguerite Kenner is a California transplant living in the UK city named after her favourite pastime.With her partner Alasdair Stuart, she runs Escape Artists, streams on Twitch, and practices as a technology lawyer in London. She loves to do voice work for podcasts and audiobooks, and is always on the lookout for an exciting new project.Her contributions to genre fiction include editing Cast of Wonders from 2013 to 2019, project groups for SFWA, WSFS and the BFS, community organising, and teaching business skills to artists.

Graeme Dunlop is a co-editer and co-host of the PodCastle podcast.

Laura Pearlman is an author, primarily of speculative fiction. She is editor of the podcast CatsCast.Pearlman’s short fiction has appeared in Nature, Shimmer, Flash Fiction Online, and a handful of other places. Her LOLcat captions have appeared in McSweeney’s. She’s a former associate editor at Escape Pod and has guest-edited episodes of Escape Pod and Cast of Wonders.

Rikki LaCoste is a writer, voice artist, environmental activist, therapist, musician and music teacher, and artist. He has appeared as a narrator on many podcasts, including PseudoPod, Starship Sofa, and Cast of Wonders. He created and co-hosted the podcast "Kakophonos Internet Radio."LaCoste has worked for Greenpeace Canada, the Communications Steward for Alfheim Valley Eco Resort. He composes and records music under the name Panthea.

Benjamin C. Kinney is the pseudonym for a speculative fiction author and neuroscientist.Benjamin C. Kinney is also the assistant editor of the science fiction magazine Escape Pod. His stories have appeared in Analog Science Fiction & Fact, Strange Horizons, and Fireside Magazine.

Tina Connolly is the author of the Ironskin trilogy from Tor Books and the Seriously Wicked series, from Tor Teen.

Rachael K. Jones is an author and editor of science fiction and fantasy. She is a former editor of PodCastle.Jones's fiction has appeared in Uncanny, Lightspeed, Beneath Ceaseless Skies, Strange Horizons, and all four Escape Artists podcasts, as well as several Year's Best anthologies. She is a World Fantasy Award nominee and Tiptree Award honoree.Jones has also hosted and narrated for PodCastle, Escape Pod, PseudoPod, and Cast of Wonders.

Alethea Kontis is a fiction author. She writes teen and young adult books, picture books and speculative fiction for children.Kontis has published over 20 books and 50 short stories. Her first book, "AlphaOops: The Day Z Went First," was published in 2006. Kontis has received the Jane Yolen Mid-List Author Grant, the Scribe Award, the Garden State Teen Book Award, and, twice, the Gelett Burgess Children’s Book Award.Kontis also narrates stories for multiple online magazines and contributes regular book reviews to NPR.Kontis received her B.S. in Chemistry from the University of South Carolina.

Julia Rios is a writer, editor, podcaster, and narrator. Currently, they are the Editor and Publisher of "Mermaids Monthly" magazine. They host the podcast "OMG Julia!"Rios has hosted a number of podcasts including "Outer Alliance" and "The Skiffy and Fanty Show." They have also been an editor for several of the the magazines Strange Horizons, Uncanny Magazine, and Fireside Magazine. They have narrated for "PodCastle" and "Pseudopod." They are a co-founder of Fuente Collective.Rios's work has appeared in Latin American Literature Today, Lightspeed, Uncanny, Strange Horizons, and Goblin Fruit.

Barry Haworth works as a Statistician and Data Scientist in the Australian Public Service. He holds a Masters degree in Statistics. Outside of work he is a keen reader of science fiction and enjoys choral singing and taking part in amateur theatricals, having performed such roles as Prospero in The Tempest, Fester in The Addams Family Musical, Major-General Stanley in The Pirates of Penzance, and Ebenezer Scrooge and Marley's Ghost in two different versions of A Christmas Carol.

Erika Sanderson trained at the Royal Central School of Speech and Drama in London, UK. She works as an actor, director, and voice actor.A highly versatile character actress, Erika's stage career spans over 3 decades in which she has created a myriad of roles in a variety of genres from children's theatre to classical plays and musicals.Since 2015 she has appeared in several audio dramas and is an award-winning voice actor. With a vocal range encompassing different ages, genders, accents and creatures she has become known as "The Woman of a 1,000 Voices" for her work on The NoSleep Podcast.

Tal is a voice actor, sound designer, and fiction podcast producer. They're the creator of Re: Dracula, Sidequesting, What Will Be Here?, Someone Dies In This Elevator, and several other productions that can be found hiding under rugs and around corners.

Alasdair Stuart is a professional enthusiast, pop culture analyst, and writer behind the award-nominated weekly newsletter, The Full Lid. He is a Hugo, BFA and Audioverse Award finalist, and co-owns the Escape Artists podcast network.For information on more of Alasdair’s projects, and other audio appearances such as Journey Into…, Angry Robot, and further Escape Artists episodes, please see his website: http://alasdairstuart.carrd.co/

Elie Hirschman is a native son of New York City, but you can find him in much farther lands these days. He's been called a "vocal chameleon" with a penchant for accents and has been the voice of many horror, sci-fi, and fantasy stories in various fiction podcasts. A tech-head at his core, he has also voiced several how-to videos on advanced computer software and other sciency stuff.

Dave Robison is an avid Literary and Vocal Alchemist who pursues a wide range of creative explorations. A Brainstormer, Relentless Optimist, and “Keeper of the Buttery Man-Voice”, Dave's efforts to boost the awesomeness of the world can be found through his work at Wonderthing Studios. He’s currently shepherding multiple projects in the world: • ARCHIVOS, a story mapping and presentation tool• Manifest, a board game combining the positional strategy of chess with the fantastical diversity of Magic: The Gathering. • Story narration for numerous audio fiction podcasts and endeavors, including work with The Escape Artists series of podcasts (Pseudopod, Podcastle, EscapePod, and Cast of Wonders) as well as narrating books for J. Daniel Sawyer, James Silverstein, and more!• The Archivos Podcast Network featuring interviews and brainstorms with veteran authors

Tonia Ransom is the creator and executive producer of NIGHTLIGHT, an award-winning horror podcast featuring creepy tales written by Black writers. Tonia has been scaring people since the second grade, when she wrote her first story based on Michael Myers. She lives in Austin, Texas, and is set to premiere her second audio drama, Afflicted, on Halloween of 2022. You can follow Tonia @missdefying on Twitter, TikTok, and Instagram.

Author of the ECKO trilogy, Children of Artifice, WarHammer, Judge Anderson. Crusader geek, ttrpg gamer, 20yrs PR and marketing. Likes cats and swords

Writer, Voice Actor, Content Creator, Cherrae L. Stuart is the creator of the Dystopian Sci-Fi-Comedy podcast Good Morning Antioch and co-host of the entertainment movie review podcast TCAD

Ursula Vernon is a writer, artist, and illustrator. She is best known for her graphic novel "Digger" (2003–2011) and for her children's books series "Hamster Princess and Dragonbreath." Under the name T. Kingfisher, she is also the author of books for older audiences.