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:
Jen R. Albert: Co-Editor
Jen Albert is an editor, writer, and former entomologist. She became co-editor of her favorite fantasy fiction podcast in 2016; she now wonders if she still allowed to call it her favorite. Jen works full-time as an editor at ECW Press, an independent publishing house based in Toronto, where she enjoys working on books of all kinds, including speculative fiction, popular science, and LGBTQ fiction and non-fiction. Along with her co-editor, Khaalidah Muhammad-Ali, Jen was nominated for the World Fantasy Award for her work on PodCastle in 2018.
Cherae Clark: Co-Editor
Cherae graduated from Indiana University’s creative writing MFA. She’s been a personal trainer, an English teacher, and an editor, and is some combination thereof as she travels the world. When she’s not writing or working, she’s learning languages, doing P90something, or reading about war and [post-]colonial history. Her work has also appeared or is forthcoming in FIYAH and Uncanny. You can follow her on twitter @c_l_clark.
Setsu Uzume: Host and Assistant Editor
Setsu became assistant editor in December 2016 when Khaalidah Muhammad-Ali became co-editor, and took over as the official host in January 2018. Setsu is a nonbinary person who writes and occasionally narrates dark fantasy. In the non-writing world, they are taking a break from swordwork to learn horseback archery, baking, and violin.
Peter Behravesh: Audio Producer
Ace Ratcliff: Associate Editor
Aidan Doyle: Associate Editor
Aidan Doyle is an Australian writer and computer programmer. His short stories have been published in places such as Lightspeed, Strange Horizons, Fireside, Escape Pod, and PodCastle. He has been shortlisted for the Aurealis and XYZZY awards. He has visited more than 90 countries and his experiences include teaching English in Japan, interviewing ninjas in Bolivia and going ten-pin bowling in North Korea. He is also the author of The Science Fiction Writer’s Hierarchy of Doubt. Follow his exploits at http://www.aidandoyle.net and on Twitter.
Devin Martin: Associate Editor
Devin is a colony of uncooperative cells with a voracious appetite for cheesecake. After studying psychology and computer science, he almost fell into a career teaching robots how to kill, but escaped at the last moment. A number of arcane arts have vied for his attention, including programming and game design (both board and video), but writing has sung the sweetest. He lives with his brilliant scientist of a spouse and they call Cardiff their home. He almost never tweets @devinxmartin and he has a wide range of disturbing cackles.
Eboni Dunbar: Associate Editor
Eboni Dunbar is a queer, black woman who writes queer and black speculative fiction. She resides in the San Francisco Bay Area with her partner. She received her BA from Macalester College in English and her MFA in Creative Writing from Mills College. She is also a VONA Alum. Her work can be found in FIYAH Magazine Issue #7: Music. She can be found on twitter: @sugoionna87
Eleanor Wood: Associate Editor and Proofreader
Eleanor R. Wood writes and eats liquorice from the south coast of England, where she lives with her husband, two marvellous dogs, and enough tropical fish tanks to charge an entry fee. Her stories have appeared in over a dozen venues, including Crossed Genres, Flash Fiction Online, Deep Magic, Daily Science Fiction and the Aurealis-nominated anthology Hear Me Roar.
She blogs at https://creativepanoply.wordpress.com/
Emmalia Harrington: Associate Editor
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 and other venues.
Hamilton Perez: Associate Editor and Proofreader
Hamilton is a writer, freelance editor, and aspiring creature from the black lagoon. He lives in Sacramento, California with a very good dog. His stories have appeared in Daily Science Fiction, Metaphorosis, and Mad Scientist Journal, and he occasionally blogs about writing at hamiltonperez.wordpress.com.
Julia Patt: Associate Editor
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 or follow her on Twitter (@chidorme) for more.
Julian K. Jarboe: Associate Editor
Julian K. Jarboe is from Massachusetts. They are a graduate of the Odyssey Fantasy Writing Workshop and a fellow at the Writers’ Room of Boston, where they also sit on the board. Their writing can be found in The Atlantic, Strange Horizons, The Fairy Tale Review, and anthologized in the LAMBDA award-winning Year’s Best Transgender Speculative Fiction series, among others. They also produce and co-host Mothers & Others, “the podcast about maternal figures and mommy issues,” and tweet @JulianKJarboe.
Kai Hudson: Associate Editor
Kai Hudson lives in sunny California where she writes, hikes, and spends entirely too much time daydreaming of far-off worlds. Her work has appeared or is forthcoming in Clarkesworld, PseudoPod, Metaphorosis, and Anathema: Spec from the Margins, among others. You can visit her website at www.kaihudson.com.
Kathryn McMahon: Associate Editor
Kathryn McMahon is a queer cross-genre writer who divides her time between the Puget Sound and southwest England. Her flash fiction has won or received nominations for various literary awards and her speculative fiction has appeared here in PodCastle as well as in places such as Luna Station Quarterly, Syntax and Salt, The /tƐmz/ Review, and the food and horror anthology Sharp & Sugar Tooth: Women Up to No Good (Upper Rubber Boot, 2019). If she’s not writing, she’s probably in the woods with her wife and dog. Follow her on Twitter @katoscope and find more of her work at www.darkandsparklystories.com.
Matt Dovey: Associate Editor and Social Media Manager
Matt Dovey is very tall and very English and is most likely drinking a cup of tea right now. A wise woman once told him the scar on his arm was the Sign of Prophecy and marked him for greatness, but he’s not so sure. He now lives in a quiet market town in rural England with his wife and three children, and despite being a writer, he still hasn’t found the right words to properly express the delight and joy he finds in this wonderful arrangement.
His surname rhymes with “Dopey”, but any other similarities to the dwarf are purely coincidental. He is the Golden Pen winner for Writers of the Future volume 32 (2016) and was shortlisted for the James White Award in 2016. He has fiction out and forthcoming all over the place, including on PodCastle; you can keep up with it all at mattdovey.com, or follow along on Facebook and Twitter.
Ocicat: Community Manager and Associate Editor
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.
Graeme Dunlop: Tech Barbarian
Graeme has co-edited, hosted, and protected the PodCastle, and has stepped back to spend more time on narration, and other projects.
He lives in Melbourne, Australia with his lovely wife Amanda. They have a crazy boy dog called Jake. They believe Jake may rival Jen’s dog for hairiness, but definitely not size.