PodCastle is a weekly fantasy podcast producing audio performances of fantasy short fiction, including all the subgenres of fantasy. PodCastle launched on 1 April 2008 as part of Escape Artists, Inc. with Rachel Swirsky as founding editor and Ann Leckie as assistant editor.
Today, the PodCastle Team comprises these fine people:
Wanini Kimemiah: Co-Editor (they/them)
Wanini Kimemiah is a writer, visual artist and archive maker born and based in Nairobi, Kenya. Their artistic practice is a research and process-based exploration of the idea of the sensorium. Using a variety of media as sensorial tools that range from writing, painting, collage, lens-based media, textile-based media and alternative processes in cyanotypes, they cultivate an ecology of existence that pulls back human attention from the distractions and disconnects of anthropocentricism to the instinctive interconnectedness with the worlds which we belong to. They were the inaugural fellow for the Stedelijk × Contemporary And Editorial Fellowship 2023/2024.
Devin Martin: Co-Editor (he/they)
Devin is a mass of uncooperative cells who occasionally get their act together enough to do things like editing, narrating, and sometimes even writing. Before signing on as Co-Editor, he was an Audio Producer here at PodCastle. He’s narrated for Escape Pod, Strange Horizons, PodCastle, and Far Fetched Fables. He lives in Cardiff with a brilliant scientist. He almost never posts on Bluesky @quietandscreaming and he has a wide range of disturbing cackles
Kaitlyn Zivanovich: Assistant Editor and Social Media Manager (she/her)
Kaitlyn is a former Marine Corps intelligence officer and current speculative fiction writer. She is a graduate of the Viable Paradise Workshop and writes short stories to avoid editing her novel. Currently living in Poland with her husband and four loud children. You can find her on twitter @KZivanovich and copyfol.io/v/kaitlynzivanovich
Eric Valdes: Audio Producer (he/him)
Eric Valdes is a sound mixer, performer, and creative human like you. He lives with his family in a cozy house made of puns, coffee, and chaos. Catch him making up silly songs on Saturdays on twitch.tv/thekidsareasleep, or stare in wonder while he anxiously avoids posting on Bluesky @intenselyeric.
Matt Dovey: Host and Associate Editor (he/him)
Matt Dovey is very tall, and very British, and although his surname rhymes with “Dopey” all other similarities to the dwarf are only coincidence. He’d hoped for a more exciting mid-life crisis than “late autism and ADHD diagnoses,” but turns out you don’t get to choose. The scar on his arm is from an accident at the factory as a young ‘un. He lives in a quiet market town in rural England with his wife, three children, and varying quantities of cats and/or dogs, and has been the host of PodCastle since 2022. He has fiction out and forthcoming all over the place: keep up with it at mattdovey.com, because he’s mostly sworn off social media. Mostly.
Andrew K. Hoe: Associate Editor (he/him)
Andrew K Hoe writes speculative fiction in Southern California. His work appears in Cast of Wonders, Diabolical Plots, Highlights for Children, and other venues.
Craig Jackson (Ocicat): Community Manager and Associate Editor (he/him)
Craig Jackson, known on the forums as Ocicat, is usually found wandering the woods outside Seattle. He studied astrophysics at UC Santa Cruz, and convinces people to give him money for breaking their computer programs. He is the founder and president of the Coalition to Ban Dihydrogen Monoxide (DHMO). He’s also a community organizer involved in Seattle’s Sex Positive and Polyamorous communities. In addition he has a passion for partner dancing, is a WA state forest steward, plays roleplaying and other games, and studies religion and folklore. Anything for a weird life.
Emmalia Harrington: Associate Editor (she/her)
Emmalia Harrington is a nonfiction writer with a deep love of speculative fiction. When she isn’t writing, she can be found sewing, knitting, cooking or suffering from idle hands. She’s a member of the Broad Universe writing guild. Her work has previously appeared in FIYAH, Glittership, Anathema, and other venues. Follow her on Twitter @EmmaliaWrites.
Julia Patt: Associate Editor (she/her)
Julia is a writer and teacher from Maryland. Her fiction has appeared in Clarkesworld, Escape Pod, Luna Station Quarterly, and other places. When she isn’t working on stories or terrorizing her composition students, she gardens, does yoga, games, reads as much as she can, and, in the summer, attends an inordinate number of baseball games. Visit juliakpatt.com for more.
Kiran Kaur Saini: Associate Editor (she/her)
Tahnia Barrie: Associate Editor (she/her)
Tahnia Barrie is a Sierra Leonean poet and writer, currently based in her country’s capital city, Freetown. She is a 2024 Voodoonauts fellow and an alum of the 2023 WAW residency at the Library of Africa and the African Diaspora. Her work has been published or is forthcoming in the Commonwealth Foundation’s literary magazine adda, Strange Horizons, Lolwe, Fantasy Magazine, 20.35 Africa’s Anthology of Contemporary Poetry and elsewhere. She tweets (not really) @TSBarrie
Tarver Nova: Associate Editor (he/him)
Tarver Nova is a spec-fic writer and professional night owl in New York. His stories are found or forthcoming in Kaleidotrope, Baffling Magazine, and Daily Science Fiction. Find him at tarvernova.com or show him your cats on Twitter @tarvernova.
Tierney Bailey: Associate Editor (she/her)
Tierney Bailey is a Libra, a lover of science fiction and poetry, and is a dice-collecting gremlin. Currently, Tierney is Associate Poetry Editor with Sundress Publications, a copyeditor at Strange Horizons, Associate Editor with PodCastle, and a freelance graphic designer. She has earned a BA from the University of Indianapolis and a Masters Degree in Writing, Literature, and Publishing from Emerson College. Tierney is most easily found screaming into the void on Twitter as @ergotierney.
Ziv Wities: Associate Editor (he/him)
Short fiction snuck into Ziv’s life in his teens. It struck a tent, has been entrenched ever since, and sometimes throws parties. Outside the Castle, Ziv is a programmer, a source-control evangelist, and Assistant Editor at Diabolical Plots. He spends much of his time lovingly fending off his three children. Check out zivwities.com for Ziv’s expert overanalyses of Knives Out, Too Like The Lightning, and Star Trek: Discovery, for some writerly Q&A, and for whatever he does next. He tweets, vaguely, as @QuiteVague.