Cassiopeia Gatmaitan (they/them) is a queer fiction writer and poet from the Philippines. Their work has appeared in or is forthcoming from Uncharted Magazine, the Mekong Review, Death in the Mouth, and elsewhere. Their works engage with hauntings and the haunted, folklore and history, the gothic and the grotesque, and the anticolonial. When not writing, they can be found tending to their garden full of tropical orchids. Find them on Twitter @lagunabayfables.
Two-time winner of the John Dryden Translation prize, Clarion alum Edward Gauvin has received fellowships from the National Endowment for the Arts, PEN America, the Centre National du Livre, the American Literary Translators Association, and the French Embassy. His books include Georges-Olivier Châteaureynaud’s selected stories, A Life on Paper (Small Beer), winner of the Science Fiction & Fantasy Translation Award, and Jean Ferry’s The Conductor and Other Tales (Wakefield). His work has been nominated for the French-American Foundation Translation Prize, the Oxford-Weidenfeld Translation Prize, and the Best Translated Book Award. Other publications have appeared in The New York Times, Tin House, Subtropics, Conjunctions, and World Literature Today. In 2010, he was a Fulbright scholar in Brussels, and in 2014, a resident at the Château de Seneffe. Other residencies include the Banff Centre, Ledig House, the Villa Gillet, the Maison des Écritures Midi-Pyrénées, and the Lannan Foundation. The translator of more than 250 graphic novels, he is the contributing editor for Francophone comics at Words Without Borders, and writes on the Francophone fantastic at Weird Fiction Review.
Walter Lionel George (1882-1926) was an English writer, chiefly known for his popular fiction, which included feminist, pacifist, and pro-labour themes. According to Alec Waugh, he was commercially successful, helpful in practical terms to upcoming authors, but unpopular in the literary world for his subject matter, his hack journalism, and his left-wing views. In 1945 George Orwell included George in a list of “natural” novelists, not inhibited by “good taste”, and particularly praised Caliban (a fictionalised account of the life of Lord Northcliffe) for its “memorable and truthful” picture of London life.
William Ford Gibson is an American-Canadian speculative fiction novelist and essayist who has been called the “noir prophet” of the cyberpunk subgenre. Gibson coined the term “cyberspace” in his short story “Burning Chrome” (1982) and later popularized the concept in his debut novel, Neuromancer (1984). In envisioning cyberspace, Gibson created an iconography for the information age before the ubiquity of the Internet in the 1990s. He is also credited with predicting the rise of reality television and with establishing the conceptual foundations for the rapid growth of virtual environments such as video games and the World Wide Web. Needless to say, Gibson is a major influencer to the existence of Escape Artists.
Ben lives in Denmark, where he works an ordinary job in the healthcare sector.
He’s a first time narrator, but longtime horror and sci-fi geek. He’s very happy to be working with a podcast he has enjoyed listening to for years.
Veronica Giguere – is a narrator of many genres, most notably for the Secret World Chronicle podcast novel series (which she narrates, produces and writes along with Mercedes Lackey, Cody Martin and Dennis Lee) and the cyberpunk noir podcast novel, Broken, co-written with Cedric Johnson. She can be found at www.voicesbyveronica.com and at Amazon and Smashwords. When not behind a microphone or slaving away on words, she works to release her soul from higher education in the pursuit of her doctorate.
A 2011 graduate of Clarion West Writers Workshop, S.L. GILBOW‘s short stories have appeared in The Magazine of Fantasy & Science Fiction, Lightspeed, The Dark Magazine, Betwixt and many other publications. Gilbow is a retired lieutenant colonel and navigator with twenty-six years of Air Force service and over 2000 flying hours in the B-52. He currently teaches English at Thomas Nelson Community College in Hampton, Virginia. You can learn learn more about S. L. Gilbow at slgibow.com.
Katie Gill is a librarian and budding horror writer/performer who’s got strong opinions about dead explorers, Eurovision, and public domain works. She has previously published at The Singles Jukebox, Anime Feminist, and Women Write About Comics.