Leah Thomas frequently loses battles of wits against her students and her stories. When she’s not huddled in cafes, she’s usually at home pricking her fingers in service of cosplay. Leah lives in San Diego, California and is the author of Nowhere Near You and the William C. Morris YA Debut Award finalist, Because You’ll Never Meet Me.
Sheree Renée Thomas is a multi-award-winning writer, poet, editor, and curator. Her work is inspired by myth, folklore, natural science, music, and the genius of the Mississippi Delta. She is the author of four collections of fiction, including Mojorhythm, Nine Bar Blues: Stories from an Ancient Future, Sleeping Under the Tree of Life, and Shotgun Lullabies. She is also the co-editor of several anthologies, including Africa Risen: A New Era of Speculative Fiction, Trouble the Waters: Tales of the Deep Blue, Dark Matter: A Century of Speculative Fiction from the African Diaspora, and Dark Matter: Reading the Bones. Thomas is the first Black writer honored with the World Fantasy Award and has also received the Ignyte Ember Award and the Octavia E. Butler Award. She was a Hugo Award Finalist twice and was honored with the Locus Award. As a Marvel writer, she wrote the novel, Black Panther: Panther’s Rage, stories in Black Panther: Tales of Wakanda, and Captain America: The Shield of Sam Wilson, and also collaborated with Janelle Monáe’s on the novelette, “Timebox Altar(ed)” in the New York Times bestselling collection, The Memory Librarian and Other Stories of Dirty Computer, She has taught creative writing workshops at universities and in community and cultural organizations around the world. Her work has appeared in The New York Times, Scientific American, and Marvel Comics (“The World Is Not Ready” about the Black Panther and Storm in Marvel Voices: Legends #1). She lives in Memphis, Tennessee. Visit www.shereereneethomas.com
D.K. (Dave) Thompson is a good name to know if you spend any time around Escape Artists, Inc. (So is “California King,” or “Easter Werewolf”…) He’s a pretty awesome guy, even if he disparages pumpkin beer. He lives outside Los Angeles with his wife and three children. While he can tweet up to 175 characters, he refrains from using this power for chaos.
Together with co-editor Anna Schwind, he ran PodCastle for five amazing years, stepping down to focus on his own writing in 2015.
You can find two of his audio book narrations on Amazon: Norse Code by Greg Van Eekhout and Briarpatch by Tim Pratt.
Larissa is a Vancouver-based voice actor and producer, most recognized for her work on The Centropic Oracle, a science fiction and fantasy short story audio magazine available on YouTube, The Sojourn, an original science fiction audio drama & motion comic, and is the co-founder of the YouTube channel The Templin Institute.
Lee Thompson knows his horror-noir. He fuses both genres together in the turmoil of terror, tragedy, blood, guilt, and lost chances at redemption.”–Tom Piccirilli, author of THE LAST KIND WORDS Lee Thompson writes Dark Fantasy under his own name, Coming-of-Age Suspense as Thomas Morgan, Supernatural Thrillers as Julian Vaughn, and Noir as James Logan. The dominating threads weaved throughout his work are love, loss, and learning how to live again. A firm believer in the enduring power of the human spirit, Lee believes that stories, no matter their format, set us on the path of transformation. He is represented by the extraordinary Chip MacGregor of MacGregor Literary. Visit Lee’s website to discover more: www.leethompsonfiction.com
Matt Thompson is a London-based experimental musician and writer of strange stories. He is way, way behind on his to-be-read pile, a situation he currently finds himself unable to rectify. His work has been published at Interzone, Nature: Futures, Black Static and many more worthy venues. You can find him online at http://matt-thompson.com.
Maui Threv was born in the swamps of south Georgia where he was orphaned as a child by a pack of wild dawgs. He was adopted by a family of gators who named him Maui Threv which in their language means mechanical frog music. He was taught the ways of swamp music and the moog synthesizer by a razorback and a panther. His own music has been featured over in episodes of Pseudopod. He provided music for the second episode ever released across the PseudoPod feed: Waiting up for Father. He also is responsible for the outro music for the Lavie Tidhar story Set Down This. He has expanded his sonic territory across all 100,000 watts of WREK in Atlanta where you can listen to the Mobius every Wednesday night. It is available to stream via the internet as well, and Threv never stops in the middle of a hoedown.
Lavie Tidhar is the World Fantasy Award winning author of Osama (2011), of The Violent Century (2013) and of the Jerwood Fiction Uncovered Prize winning A Man Lies Dreaming (2014), in addition to many other works and several awards. His latest novel is the Campbell Award winning and Clarke Award nominated Central Station (2016). He works across genres, combining detective and thriller modes with poetry, science fiction and historical and autobiographical material. His work has been compared to that of Philip K. Dick by the Guardian and the Financial Times, and to Kurt Vonnegut’s by Locus.