Apex Magazine Podcast Creators & Guests

Alyson Grauer is an actor, science fiction writer, and voice coach. She has made a career of performing in theme parks in and around Orlando.Grauer's first novel, “On the Isle of Sound and Wonder,” was published in 2014.Grauer studied acting and history at Loyola University of Chicago.

Katie "K. T." Bryski is an author, playwright, and podcaster.Bryski's work has appeared in Deadlands, Lightspeed, Nightmare, and PodCastle, and in anthologies such as "Best American Science Fiction and Fantasy, 2021." She has created two audio dramas, "Coxwood History Fun Park" and "Six Stories, Told at Night."Bryski received her M.F.A. in Creative Writing from the University of Southern Maine.

Alli Nova is an artist, sound designer, and audio producer. She is the audio director for Dark Matter Audiolab, produced the Apex Magazine Podcast, and edits the podcast "Stumble Quest" as well as editing four different shows under her own banner podcast "RPG for You and Me" with her wife Kira. She plays Athena Sideris on the main show for "RPG for You and Me": "Neon Heat".She and Kira have also guest starred on "Sounds Like Crowes" and "A Knight of Shreds and Patches". Additionally, they have lent their voices to narration on "The Night Shift Podcast", as well the anthology audio books "Human Monsters" and "Haunted Reels: Stories from the Minds of Professional Filmmakers" alongside Ahmed Best, Brea Grant, C. Robert Cargill, and many others.

Erika Sanderson trained at the Royal Central School of Speech and Drama in London, UK. She works as an actor, director, and voice actor.A highly versatile character actress, Erika's stage career spans over 3 decades in which she has created a myriad of roles in a variety of genres from children's theatre to classical plays and musicals.Since 2015 she has appeared in several audio dramas and is an award-winning voice actor. With a vocal range encompassing different ages, genders, accents and creatures she has become known as "The Woman of a 1,000 Voices" for her work on The NoSleep Podcast.

Lynne Marie Thomas is an American librarian, podcaster and award-winning editor. She has won seven Hugo Awards for editing and podcasting in the science fiction genre. She is perhaps best known as the co-publisher and co-editor-in-chief of the Hugo Award-winning Uncanny Magazine and as a co-host of Doctor Who: Verity! Podcast.

Erika Ensign won several Hugo Awards for her work on Uncanny Magazine‘s monthly fiction/interview podcast and several Parsec Awards for Verity! and The Incomparable and also co-hosts Doctor Who: Verity! Podcast.

Mahvesh Murad is an editor, a book critic and a voice artist from Karachi, Pakistan. She writes regularly for Dawn, Tor.com, Strange Horizons and Pornokitsch, narrates and produces the Apex podcast as well as Tor.com’s Midnight in Karachi podcast. She is also the editor of The Apex Book of World SF 4, and the co-editor of The Djinn Falls in Love & Other Stories.

Lisa Shininger is a writer, editor, producer, and digital marketer. She created and co-hosted Bossy Britches, an irregular pop culture podcast, and works as a first reader for several science fiction and fantasy publications.Shininger received her B.A. in English Literature and new media from Marylhurst University.

Rich Larson is a writer and critic. He works for the Expository Writing Program at New York University.Larson's work has appeared in the Los Angeles Review of Books, Chicago Review of Books, Harvard Review, Colorado Review, Electric Literature, Joyland, Slant Magazine, Hobart, Vol. 1 Brooklyn, Wigleaf, Booth: A Journal, Strange Horizons, and the anthology "It Came From the Closet: Queer Reflections on Horror Film." He has presented at AWP and has done public readings in NYC, Los Angeles, and Paris.Larson studied literature and film at Hunter College in Manhattan and earned his M.F.A. from New York University.

Christopher Soren Kelly is an actor and editor, known for Infinity Chamber (2016), The Tangle (2019) and Ink (2009).Kelly received his B.A. in Physics from Indiana University at Bloomington and his Ph.D. in Philosophy from the University of Colorado at Boulder.

Rachel Swirsky is an author of literary, speculative, and fantasy fiction and poetry, and an editor. She was the founding editor of the PodCastle podcast and was its editor from 2008 to 2010. She was vice president of the Science Fiction and Fantasy Writers of America in 2013.Swirsky's work has been published in PANK, the Konundrum Engine Literary Review, and the New Haven Review. Her speculative fiction work has appeared in Tor.com, Subterranean Magazine, Beneath Ceaseless Skies, Fantasy Magazine, Interzone, Realms of Fantasy, and Weird Tales, and collected in a variety of year's best anthologies. Her novella "The Lady Who Plucked Red Flowers Beneath the Queen’s Window" won the 2010 Nebula Award. Her short story "If You Were a Dinosaur, My Love" won the 2013 Nebula Award for Best Short Story.

Margaret Ronald is an author who writes mainly fantasy, science fiction, and horror.Ronald lives outside of Boston and works full time to support her writing. Her first short story, “Christmas Apples,” was published in 2005. Since then, her work has appeared in Fantasy Magazine, Strange Horizons, Baen’s Universe, and Beneath Ceaseless Skies. Her first novel, "Spiral Hunt," was published in 2009. Ronald was born and raised in a small town in Indiana. She received her B.A. in English from Williams College.

Naomi Kritzer is a science fiction and fantasy writer and election blogger.Kritzer is best known for her short story "Cat Pictures Please," which won the Locus Award and Hugo Award. Her first novel, "Freedom's Gate," was published in 2004.Kritzer received her B.A. from Carleton College.

Windy Bowlsby is a professional teacher and employee trainer. She is also interested in theatre, especially musical theatre, cult movies, and science fiction and fantasy. She has directed films and appeared in live stage productions. She is a program manager for the Alamo Drafthouse Theater's Fantastic Fest.

Ursula Vernon is a writer, artist, and illustrator. She is best known for her graphic novel "Digger" (2003–2011) and for her children's books series "Hamster Princess and Dragonbreath." Under the name T. Kingfisher, she is also the author of books for older audiences.

Veronica Giguere is a narrator and voice actor who specializes in narrating fantasy, romance, science fiction, steampunk, suspense, and psychological thrillers for audiobooks and podcasts.Giguere began her voice acting career as a co-author of the audio podcast book "The Secret World Chronicles," which she also produced and acted in.