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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Hailey Piper is the author of The Worm and His Kings, Queen of Teeth, Benny Rose the Cannibal King, and her short story collection Unfortunate Elements of My Anatomy. She is an active member of the Horror Writers Association, with over sixty short stories appearing in Year’s Best Hardcore Horror, Daily Science Fiction, Flash Fiction Online, The Arcanist, Dark Matter Magazine, and elsewhere. She lives with her wife in Maryland, where their paranormal research is classified.

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Kyle Piper is a Pacific Northwest-based writer and video essayist. When he’s not imagining horrible things to write about, he’s probably spending time with his wife and (a strange animal purporting to be a) cat, trying to get through to his emotionally closed-off pet box turtle, or playing weird videogames from the 90s. He also writes about the weird videogames, and you can find that content on his YouTube channel, Monster Closets.

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M.O. Pirson is a Belgo-Irish crossbreed, currently based in the Walloon countryside. He is a biologist by day and speculative fiction writer by night—and therefore a very tired person, generally speaking. When he isn’t working or writing, he enjoys the occasional banjo lick and being bossed around by two tiny (and far cuter) versions of himself. His short fiction has previously appeared in the Strange Wars: Speculative Fiction of Coalitions in Conflict and Revolutions 2: An Anthology of Speculative Fiction set in Manchester anthologies.

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From Matthew’s website:

I am a PharmD living in South Jersey (way south) and a wanna be writer.  I have two young kids and they love Badgers and Wolverines, hence the website name (plus all the cool ones were taken).

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