About Arianna Reiche
Arianna Reiche is an American writer living in east London. Her fiction has been published by Ambit Magazine, Joyland, Popshot, SAND Journal, and The Mechanics’ Institute Review. She was nominated for the Bridport Prize in 2020, and won the 2017 Glimmer Train Fiction Open and the 2021 Tupelo Press Prose Prize. Her debut novel, At the End of Every Day, is forthcoming from Atria Books/Simon & Schuster.
About Eric Lewis
By day Eric Lewis is a research scientist weathering the latest rounds of mergers and layoffs and trying to remember how to be a person again after surviving grad school. His novels The Heron Kings and The Heron Kings’ Flight are available from Flame Tree Press. His short fiction has been published in Nature, Cossmass Infinities, Speculative North, Bards & Sages Quarterly, the anthologies Crash Code and Best Indie Speculative Fiction Vol. 1, the short story collections Tricks of the Blade and As It Seems, as well as many other venues detailed at EricLewis.ink.
About Lindz McLeod
Lindz McLeod is a queer, working-class, Scottish writer who dabbles in the surreal. Her prose has been published by Catapult, Flash Fiction Online, Pseudopod, and many more. She is a full member of the SFWA, a Rogue Mentor, and is represented by Headwater Literary Management. She lives in Edinburgh, and enjoys writing in both English and Scots.
About Nick Shafir
After years of working odd jobs, Nick Shafir began his professional writing career at Assemble Media. Among his projects with them was the comic book adaptation Mercy Sparx, which has since been optioned by MGM. In 2021, Nick’s Sci-fi/Thriller script ISS was produced staring Academy Award winner Arianna DeBose. While Nick has never felt confined to any one genre, his work is often an experiment in taking highly imaginative premises and rooting them in reality as much as possible. Today, he continues to live out his dream of being a writer while working out of a small NYC apartment with his fiancé and a perpetually lethargic basset hound.
About Brianna R. Whitrock
Brianna Whitrock is an author of adult speculative fiction. She writes YA under the name Brianna R. Shrum, and has published several novels for young adults, including Never, Never; How to Make Out; and The Art of French Kissing, among other titles. Her novels have been published in audiobook form, in France, and in Italy.
About Lyle Stiles
Lyle Stiles is a recovering researcher nursing a growing love for sci-fi. As an African American who was raised in Brooklyn, New York, and trained in the discipline of neuroscience, he brings his unique blend of personal experiences and scientific background into his fiction. His most notable short story, “The Pox Party”, was published in the Black Sci-Fi Short Stories anthology in 2021. You can try to follow him and his ramblings on twitter: @thewritestiles.
About Ron Butler
Ron Butler is a Los Angeles–based actor, Earphones Award–winning audiobook narrator, and voice artist with over a hundred film and television credits. Most kids will recognize him from the three seasons he spent on Nickelodeon’s True Jackson, VP. He works regularly as a commercial and animation voice-over artist and has voiced a wide variety of audiobooks. He is a member of the Atlantic Theater Company and an Independent Filmmaker Project Award winner for his work in the HBO film Everyday People.
About Natasha Soudek
Natasha Soudek was raised in the South, speaks native German, lived in Berlin and Vienna, and finally settled in the Lower East Side of New York City. After honing her stage presence by studying acting and playing hundreds of live music shows (singing and playing bass), she moved to LA to record with Channel/DreamWorks and act on TV. Her voice is as distinct and memorable as the range of characters she’s played on-screen.
About Erica Sullivan
Erica Sullivan is a professional actress of both stage and screen and holds her MFA from the Yale School of Drama. She has spent over a decade as a Company Member at the Oregon Shakespeare Festival. She has been busy in both the stage and screen world, and has also narrated nearly one hundred audiobooks.
About Kirsten Potter
Kirsten Potter has won several awards, including more than a dozen AudioFile Earphones Awards and been a three-time finalist for the prestigious Audie Award for best narration. Her work has been recognized by the National Foundation for Advancement in the Arts and by AudioFile magazine, among many others. She graduated with highest honors from Boston University and has performed on stage and in film and television, including roles on Medium, Bones, and Judging Amy.
