Escape Pod Creators & Guests

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.

Norm Sherman is the multi-talented master of all things weird and wonderful. He is the founder and host of the Drabblecast.

M. Darusha Wehm is an author, primarily of science fiction.Wehm's short fiction and poetry have appeared in Terraform and Nature, and has been nominated for the Nebula Award. They received the Sir Julius Vogel Award for their interactive fiction game "The Martian Job" and for their novels "Beautiful Red," "Children of Arkadia," "The Voyage of the White Cloud," and the Andersson Dexter cyberpunk detective series.Wehm has also written mainstream books, include the YA series "Devi Jones’ Locker" and "The Home for Wayward Parrots."

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

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/

Rachel Swirsky is an author of literary, speculative, and fantasy fiction and poetry, and an editor. She was the founding editor of the PodCastle podcast and was its editor from 2008 to 2010. She was vice president of the Science Fiction and Fantasy Writers of America in 2013.Swirsky's work has been published in PANK, the Konundrum Engine Literary Review, and the New Haven Review. Her speculative fiction work has appeared in Tor.com, Subterranean Magazine, Beneath Ceaseless Skies, Fantasy Magazine, Interzone, Realms of Fantasy, and Weird Tales, and collected in a variety of year's best anthologies. Her novella "The Lady Who Plucked Red Flowers Beneath the Queen’s Window" won the 2010 Nebula Award. Her short story "If You Were a Dinosaur, My Love" won the 2013 Nebula Award for Best Short Story.

Gabrielle de Cuir is a producer and narrator. She has narrated over 400 audiobooks, and many podcasts. She also directs theatre.de Cuir has received a Grammy and an Audie for production. She is a co-founder and President of the audio production company Skyboat Media, which produces the podcast "Lightspeed Magazine."de Cuir received her M.F.A. in Theatre from University of California.

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.

Mur Lafferty is a podcaster and writer.

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.

Izzy Wasserstein teaches writing and literature, and writes poetry and fiction. She is an English Lecturer at Washburn University.Wasserstein is the author of the poetry collections "This Ecstasy They Call Damnation" and "When Creation Falls." Her poetry and fiction have appeared in publications such as Prairie Schooner, Clarkesworld, and Crab Orchard Review. Her first book, "All The Hometowns You Can’t Stay Away From and Other Stories," was published in 2022.Wasserstein received her M.F. A. from the University of New Mexico.

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.

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

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.

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.

Summer Brooks is a podcast producer and host, voice actor, and writer.Brooks is producer and host of the podcasts "Slice of SciFi," "Writers, After Dark," and "The Babylon Podcast." She produces for the "Escape Pod" podcast. In addition, she voices audio dramas and narrates fiction for podcasts. She also writes science fiction, horror fiction, thrillers, and fantasy fiction.

Kat is a London-based Greek/Serbian speculative writer and podcaster. She is a Hugo Award winning podcast editor for Strange Horizons magazine, hosts and produces The Write Song podcast, and also organises Spectrum, the largest critique group for science fiction and fantasy writers in the UK.

Paul S. Jenkins is a fiction author, podcaster, occasional narrator, and skeptic blogger. He is co-host of the podcast "Skepticule" and host of the inactive podcast "The Rev Up Review." He also does narration for other podcasts.

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.