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Matthew Wayne Selznick
Matthew Wayne Selznick is an author, creator, and creative services provider living in Long Beach, California. He’s the author of the Parsec Award nominated “Brave Men Run — A Novel of the Sovereign Era” as well as his latest novel, “Pilgrimage,” and a number of other titles set in a variety of storyworlds.
Rosie Sentman
Rosie Sentman is an actor, voice actor, singer, and all around ‘theatre artist’, originally from Georgia and now living in Boston, Massachusetts. Outside of performing, they are an independent researcher focusing on cosmic horror and the decadent movement, and are passionate about disability rights, surrealism in theatre, and their orange cat, Whitby. You can find more about their projects and contact them at rosiesentman.com.
Sevatividam
Sevatividam is a wife, mom, businesswoman, singer and songwriter, in the Charlotte, North Carolina area. She is a huge nerd for speculative fiction and loves to read, write, narrate and listen to stories. She enjoyed very much drawing on various sullen rednecks she’s known to find the voices for this story.
Diane Severson
Diane Severson is a lyric soprano specialized in Early Music, specifically Baroque and medieval music and Lieder/Art Song. She is an enthusiastic teacher of singing (taking her cues from her mentor the late Cornelius Reid and his long-time student and mentor in her own right Carol Baggott-Forte).
Diane has been involved in the Speculative Poetry Scene (yes, it’s a thing) since 2010. She has narrated for the StarShipSofa Podcast Magazine since Tony C. Smith started running fiction and found out that she reads aloud to her husband. She quickly became his go-to-girl when he wanted poetry read. As a result of that affinity with poetry, and because she does her best work when she has a Cause (a budding superheroine?), she decided to take up as Science Fiction Poetry’s Spokesperson. She produced the sporadic podcast, which ran as part of StarShipSofa, called Poetry Planet and is a member of the Science Fiction and Fantasy Poetry Association (SFPA) and currently serves as Membership Chair, Volunteer Wrangler and Communications Coordinator. She has reviewed genre poetry for Amazing Stories Magazine and the SFPA’s Star*Line magazine and edited an issue of the SFPA’s online journal, Eye to the Telescope on the theme of Music. She continues to narrate stories for StarShipSofa and other podcasts (notably EscapePod, PodCastle and Tales to Terrify) and audio book narrations.
The best place to find her is on the web because she tends to pick up and move to another country at the drop of a hat, having lived in Germany, the UK, and France in the past 12 years. She and her small family, a “rocket scientist” and a young multi-linguist, currently reside in a Home County in England.
R. Scott Shanks, Jr.
Mistakes have been made. Oh… candy, leftovers, Eggo’s… she really likes Eggo’s. It’s finger-lickin’ good. You’re going to be home by 8, listening to the Talking Heads and reading Vonnegut or something. That sounds like a nice night. It’s about the shadow monster, isn’t it?
Priya Sharma
PRIYA SHARMA’s fiction has appeared in Interzone, Black Static, Albedo One and on Tor.com. She’s been anthologized in several of Ellen Datlow’s Best Horror of the Year series, Paula Guran’s Year’s Best Dark Fantasy & Horror series, Jonathan Strahan’s The Best Science Fiction & Fantasy 2014, Steve Haynes’ Best British Fantasy 2014 and Johnny Main’s Best British Horror 2015. She’s also been on previous Locus’ Recommended Reading Lists (2010, 2012, 2013 & 2015). She is a Shirley Jackson Award Nominee and British Fantasy Award nominee for her story “Fabulous Beasts”, which appeared on Tor.com in 2015. Find her online at Priya Sharma Fiction.
Jenna Sharpe
(Jenna incidentally also voices Naija in Aquaria)
From Jenna’s website:
Jenna wanted to be an actress from a young age but like most kids, there were about 100 other things she also wanted to be. Swimming, gymnastics, judo, horse riding, ballet? She tried them all and usually got bored pretty quickly. But after seeing a friend’s brochure for a local Saturday stage school and begging her dad to let her go, she finally found something she truly loved doing.
Jenna gained a 1st class degree at the University of the West of England and went on to do a Master’s degree in Occupational Psychology (how the principles of Psychology can be applied to business) and straight into a job with Thames Valley Police.
Despite loving the police environment Jenna left her job with the police to pursue her acting and voice over career professionally. In fact Jenna’s unconventional background proved to be her greatest strength as an actress. Her knowledge and interest in studying human behaviour coupled with her eventful childhood and varied career added a unique dimension to her performances.
Jenna prides herself on her broad emotional and character range but always strives to create a believable character with depth and authenticity. It didn’t take long for her to start getting leading roles in films and regular voice over work.