Evan J. Peterson is the creator of Drag Star! (Choice of Games), the world’s first drag performer RPG, as well as The PrEP Diaries: A Safe(r) Sex Memoir (Lethe Press). An author, critic, game writer, and Clarion West alum, his writing has appeared in Weird Tales, Unspeakable Horror 2, Queers Destroy Horror, Nightmare Magazine, and Best Gay Stories 2015. His serialized novel Better Living Through Alchemy is currently releasing digitally, chapter by chapter, from Broken Eye Books, and his first full-length poetry book, METAFLESH: Poems in the Voice(s) of the Monster, is now available from ARUS Entertainment.

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Nick Petrou works as a freelance writer out of Perth, Western Australia, where he likes to read unsettling fiction and complain about the sun. His short fiction has been published by The Arcanist, Ghost Orchid Press, Quill & Crow, and others. You can find out lots more about him at nspetrou.com and reach out to him on Twitter @nspetrou.

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Your reader this week, Mark E. Phair, is an engineer and a storyteller. Find him online at MarkEPhair.com, Logibate.com, and @MarkEPhair on Twitter.

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Ben Phillips is a programmer and musician living in New Orleans. He was a chief editor of Pseudopod from 2006-2010. He occasionally writes & records songs as Painful Reminder.

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Peter Piazza – is your reader this week. Pete narrates stories for sites including StarshipSofa and Tales of Old (as well as Pseudopod, of course).

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Over the last decade, Michael Picco has published over two-dozen short stories; produced two award-winning collections (Corpse Honey and Scenes From The Carnival Lounge); and has received numerous accolades for his brand of “literary” horror. Michael’s work “explores the dark and disturbing recesses of what is possible” and has been described as “eloquently-written terror.” Michael received his B.A. in English from Western State College in Colorado. He is a member of the Horror Writers Guild, the Denver Horror Collective, and the Colorado Independent Publishers Association. His most recent publishing credit, The Horse Leech Has Two Maws appears in The Jewish Book of Horror. He is currently working on The Wretched Bones, a revision and expansion of some of his most popular published work. Listeners can visit his website: www.michaelpicco.com to learn more about his work.

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Marisca Pichette is a queer author of speculative fiction, nonfiction, and poetry. She studied at Mount Holyoke College and the Stonecoast MFA Program, and presented at the 42nd International Conference of the Fantastic Arts. Her work has appeared in PseudoPod, Daily Science Fiction, Room, Voyage, and more. She lives in Western Massachusetts.

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James Kaku (pronounced: Kah – koo) Pierson is a Japanese American podcast producer and voice actor living in California. He can be heard as host and game master of the AthraPlay (pronounced: Ath – Ra – Play) podcast, an RPG actual-play podcast set in the world of J R R Tolkien’s Middle-earth, which will be launching in 2023.

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