About Joe Vallese
Joe Vallese’s creative and pop culture writing appears in Bomb, VICE, Backstage, PopMatters, Southeast Review, North American Review, Narrative Northeast, and VIA: Voices in Italian-Americana, among others. He is currently clinical associate professor in the Expository Writing Program at New York University, and previously served as site director and faculty for the Bard Prison Initiative. Joe holds an MFA from New York University and MAT and BA degrees from Bard College.
About Carmen Maria Machado
Carmen Maria Machado’s work has appeared in Granta, The New Yorker, NPR, Electric Literature, and elsewhere. She has been nominated for a Nebula Award and a Shirley Jackson Award, and was a finalist for the Calvino Prize. She is the author of Her Body and Other Parties, which was a finalist for the National Book Award and winner of the National Book Critics Circle's John Leonard Prize.
About Zefyr Lisowski
Zefyr Lisowski is a trans and queer writer, artist, and North Carolinian living in New York City. A 2023 NYFA/NYSCA Fellow and 2023 Queer|Art Fellow, she's the author of the poetry collections Girl Work, winner of the 2022 Noemi Book Prize, and Blood Box, winner of the Black River Editor's Choice Award from Black Lawrence Press. Zefyr's work has appeared in The Believer, Electric Literature, Catapult, Literary Hub, Split This Rock, and elsewhere. From 2016 to 2024, she served as poetry co-editor for the Whiting Award-winning Apogee Journal. She's seen grave robbers twice.
About Graham Halstead
Graham Halstead is a professionally trained actor and voice artist, born and raised in Virginia and now living and working in Brooklyn, New York City. As an actor, Graham has worked internationally in Edinburgh, Scotland, and London, England, as well as back home at the Kennedy Center in Washington, D.C. His voice is youthful, easy-flowing, and flexible, and lends itself to many different types of storytelling. He can be heard on TV and radio voicing spots for Airborne and Allegra.
About Aven Shore
Aven Shore is an audiobook narrator who is in love with the magical alchemy of storytelling. A dual United States/Canada citizen, she has a passion for sustainable living; feminist, gender, and sexuality issues; cognitive science and productivity; and trauma/cult memoirs. She currently resides in an off-grid tiny house in rural Canada.
About Aida Reluzco
Aida Reluzco is a first-generation queer/LGBTQ+ American of Cuban and Filipino descent as well as a patron and contributor to the creative arts. Having received training in character studies, dialects, animation, and theater, she can usually be found enjoying life with her young family or reading.
About Mark Sanderlin
Mark Sanderlin is a talented voiceover artist who has worked on numerous audiobook projects.
About Krystal Hammond
Krystal Hammond is a narrator/writer, cancer survivor, and nonbinary queer human. They grew up in rural North Carolina, nurtured by a steady diet of local Black Beard legends and Civil War-era ghost stories. These nuggets of folktale and myth fostered a lifelong love of storytelling and all the drama that goes with it, resulting in loads of trunk novels and dozens of audiobooks. They have a passion for science fiction, fantasy, and horror, YA and middle grade novels, and romantic comedies.
About Daniel Henning
Daniel Henning is an experienced writer, director, actor, producer, and audiobook narrator who has lent his talents to MTV, HBO, Comedy Central, and ABC. An advocate for LGBTQ equality and the arts, he is a graduate of NYU's Tisch School of the Arts and the founding artistic director of The Blank Theatre in Hollywood.
About Ron Butler
Ron Butler is a Los Angeles–based actor, Earphones Award–winning narrator, and voice artist with over a hundred film and television credits.
About Hope Newhouse
Hope Newhouse is equally at home narrating in English or French. With a stage background in children's theater, musical theater, and medieval farce, her voice can be heard in commercials, video games, cartoons, institutional films, and audiobooks. A 2020 Independent Audio Awards Nominee, she has narrated many genres but she especially enjoys young adult fiction. Originally from Boston, Massachusetts, she currently resides in Paris, France.
About Lindsey Dorcus
Lindsey Dorcus is a SOVAS and IAA award-winning audiobook narrator and classically trained actor. After receiving her BA in theater from Northwestern University, she worked as a theater artist and teacher in Chicago for over ten years before shifting her focus to audiobooks. The narrator of over fifty titles, she especially loves narrating YA, science fiction & fantasy, and stories with LGBTQ+ themes.
About André Santana
André Santana has narrated across genres from space opera to young adult romance, and from literary fiction to epic fantasy. He is also in demand as an audiobook director and he’s always on a mission to fall in love with his books. andreonthemic.com
About Joel Froomkin
A two-time AudioFile Earphones Award-winning narrator, raised in the U.K. with American parents, Joel Froomkin provides a flawless blend between authentic American and British sounds. He is a specialist in dialects-having taught accents at NYU and coached Broadway stars and celebrities at major regional theaters and national tours. Classically trained with an MFA in theater from USC, he has over 130 full-length audiobooks to his credit and over 5,000 five-star reviews on Audible. He has recorded for Tantor, Hachette, Punch Audio, Bee Audio, and Audible Studios. His recording of Ruthless People hit #1 on the Audible romance bestseller list, and American Savages was a finalist for the Sultry Listener's Award.
Recording LGBT material as "Joel Leslie," he was awarded Narrator of the Year 2017 and Audiobook of the Year 2017 by Sinfullymmbookreviews. When not recording, Joel is often chasing two loquacious wiener dogs who delight in preventing him from recording.
About Mike Cooper
Mike Cooper is a talented producer and voiceover artist who has served in a variety of roles at BBC, ITV, and BSkyB. With over twenty years of media experience, he works out of his home studio in the beautiful Blue Ridge Mountains of North Carolina.
About Vikas Adam
Vikas Adam is a classically trained actor with numerous credits in stage, film, commercials, and television, in addition to his over two hundred recorded audiobooks. He was an inaugural inductee into the Audible Narrator Hall of Fame.
