Evan Berkow is a writer of speculative fiction in the hours when he's not lawyering. His fiction has appeared in a bunch of places, such as Strange Horizons, Escape Pod and Crossed Genres Magazine.  He's a member of SFWA, Codex, and the Brooklyn Speculative Fiction Writers critique group. 

    He lives in Pleasantville, NY, with his wife, kids, and a small menagerie consisting of two enormous gray cats and one adorable rescue dog. You can find him on Twitter @Evan_Berkow or email me at eberkow (at) gmail (dot) com. 

    Lora Nicolas is an actor and singer based in New York City. Originally from Manila, Philippines, she moved to NYC when she received a scholarship to attend the American Musical and Dramatic Academy (AMDA) for musical theatre.
      She eventually went to play her dream role since she was five years old--Kim in Miss Saigon--at the beautiful Count Basie Theater in Red Bank, NJ, and again in Midtown Arts Center in Fort Collins, CO, for which she won a BroadwayWorld Denver Award for Best Actress.
      Her other favorite roles include Anita in West Side Story, Joanne in Rent, Lucy in You're A Good Man, Charlie Brown, Janet Van de Graaff in The Drowsy Chaperone, Christmas Eve in Avenue Q, and Meg in Little Women. She also originated the role of Hannah in Vital Theater's StinkyKids--Off Broadway Alliance Award Winner for Best Family Musical. She has worked and toured all over the U.S., and has recently performed in three concerts in Tochigi and Tokyo, Japan and will be returning in the summer. 
      She is a huge geek for the sci-fi and fantasy genres, and "casually cosplays" for fun. (Follow her Instagram @dailycasualcosplays). She is very passionate about diversity in art and media, and her ultimate dream is to do a project that could get her at a Comiccon panel in front of a room full of her "peeps".​

     One sunny day in January, Art Center College of Design handedFred Stesney a BFA in illustration. That led to a long career as an advertising copywriter, a short one as a radio producer and audio engineer, and a new beginning as a writer, artist and illustrator. He – and please pardon him for writing about himself in the third person – lives in Brooklyn, New York with his wife and son.
https://fredstesney.wordpress.com/about-2/
                                                                    Twitterer @fredstesney

Tim Pratt's stories have appeared in The Best American Short Stories, The Year's Best Fantasy, The Mammoth Book of Best New Horror, and other nice places. He has won the Hugo Award for his short fiction, and he's been a finalist for World Fantasy, Sturgeon, Stoker, Mythopoeic [myth-o-pee-ic], and Nebula Awards. He lives in Berkeley California with his wife, writer Heather Shaw, and their son. For more, visit www.timpratt.org.

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By day, narrator Andy Chen works as a Fire and Life Safety Officer with the State of California. Fire prevention approval for public school construction projects fills his day with building plans, code books, and marking up drawings.

His interest in audio narration began with reading bedtime stories to his son and has blossomed into a full-blown philosophy of what makes a compelling story narration. Namely, to guide the flow and pace of the author's work and not distract the listener with "acting".  He finds narrating a mentally challenging activity, followed by endless hours of editing, which he finds oddly relaxing. Perhaps because it's similar to his day job, where he’s paid to find mistakes with a red Sharpie.

Andy currently lives in San Francisco, and his contact info and demo can be found at VoiceOfAndy.com

Marcy Arlin teaches Theater for Social Change at Pace University and is artistic director of the OBIE-winning Immigrants' Theatre Project and is a Fulbright scholar to Romania and the Czech Republic. She is a long-time member of BSFW, Theater Without Borders, Broad Universe, and her work has been published inDaily Science Fiction, Perihelionsf.com, Broad Universe Sampler, and Man.In.Fest theater journal. Marcy has several more short stories out there and is working on a sci fi murder mystery.

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Richard Bowes has published six novels, four story collections and over eighty short stories. He has won two World Fantasy Awards, a Lambda Award, a story South Million Writers Award, and an International Horror Guild Award. His most recent novel,Dust Devil On a Quiet Street, was on the 2014 World Fantasy and Lambda short lists.
A new edition of his 2005 novel, From The Files of the Time Rangers, a Nebula finalist, will appear later this year from Lethe Press.

Last year, his 9/11 story, "There’s A Hole In The City," got a very nice review in The New Yorker.
                                                      Recent and forthcoming appearances include: Fantasy Magazine's Queers Destroy Fantasy special issue,                                                                        Interfictions, Nightmare, Grendel Song, and the anthologies The Doll Collection and Black Feathers.
                                                      He is currently writing stories that will be chapters in a novel about life as a gay kid in 1950’s Boston.

Bradley Robert Parks lives, writes, and performs in and around Brooklyn, NY, where he founded the Brooklyn Speculative Fiction Writers. His passion for writing blossomed while growing up in a family of genre readers. While he's been pursuing writing for a while, the crazy energy of NYC and BSFW have given him the focus and motivation to finally get published. His stories have appeared on BuzzyMag.com and here on the Kaleidocast. He also sings and narrates stories when time permits. Along with these achievements, he's obtained one husband, Michael, and Insanity Anne Magoo (best cat ever). Keep up with his exploits on             Facebook or at BradleyRobertParks.com.

Alex Kirtland, aka Alger Bliss, is a Brooklyn based writer of poetry and speculative fiction. He is currently at work on a novel about witches and magic. You can follow updates about his work and  read his poetry at https://www.tumblr.com/blog/rhinoleaps

Rish Outfield is a writer, audiobook narrator, and podcaster who is host of the Parsec Award-winning Dunesteef Audio Fiction Magazine. He is fond of frogs, Mister Pibb, Ben Affleck, and has just written his first novel. Rish once went to Amity Island in order to cause a panic on the Fourth of July, but accidentally yelled, "Barracuda" instead of "Shark." It's true what they say: nobody reacted.

Rob Cameron is an elementary school teacher and writer living in Brooklyn. When he’s not writing stories or organizing events for the Brooklyn Speculative Fiction Writers, he is rock climbing, dragon 
boating, and working on his Buddha-like glow. You can find his work in Mike Allen’s Clockwork Phoenix 5.

Jon Hoche is an actor who recently was a performer and puppeteer in the North American tour of War Horse, as well as performing in the show’s Asian debut in Tokyo, Japan. He is the artistic associate of Vampire Cowboys Theater Company.  He recently participated in the 2015 Jim Henson Company Diversity Puppetry Workshop. He also has worked with Ma-Yi Theater, Two River Theater Co., American Globe Theatre,2G and Premiere Stages to name a few. Find out more at JonHoche.com.

​Marcus Tsong spent his formative years in the Pacific Northwest, splitting his time between Seattle and Boise. He's since moved to Shanghai, Portland, San Francisco, Wisconsin, and Washington DC before settling in Brooklyn, where he lives with his wife, son, two cats, and a grumpy dragon. He is currently working on a fantasy novel and a collection of weird tales.

Jenn Carter is an actress hailing from the bases and burbs of Virginia, California and Florida. She received her BA in Theatre from Florida State University and has been performing in one form or another since the age of 4.  Some of her favorite roles from regional and NYC theatre include Stella in A Streetcar Named Desire, Patsy Cline in Always...Patsy Cline, Jen in Sunday on the Rocks, Ulla in The Producers, Kate Keller in The Miracle Worker, Maid Marian in Robin Hood, Ophelia in Hamlet, and Hermia, Peter Quince and Cobweb in A Midsummer Nights Dream, just to name a handful. Jenn currently lives in NYC with her teddy bear and her potted plant, Felix.

Marcus Tsong spent his formative years in the Pacific Northwest, splitting his time between Seattle and Boise. He's since moved to Shanghai, Portland, San Francisco, Wisconsin, and Washington DC before settling in Brooklyn, where he lives with his wife, son, two cats, and a grumpy dragon. He is currently working on a fantasy novel and a collection of weird tales.

Jenn Carter is an actress hailing from the bases and burbs of Virginia, California and Florida. She received her BA in Theatre from Florida State University and has been performing in one form or another since the age of 4.  Some of her favorite roles from regional and NYC theatre include Stella in A Streetcar Named Desire, Patsy Cline in Always...Patsy Cline, Jen in Sunday on the Rocks, Ulla in The Producers, Kate Keller in The Miracle Worker, Maid Marian in Robin Hood, Ophelia in Hamlet, and Hermia, Peter Quince and Cobweb in A Midsummer Nights Dream, just to name a handful. Jenn currently lives in NYC with her teddy                                                                   bear and her potted plant, Felix.

Christina Yu holds an A.B in English with Creative Writing from Dartmouth College and an M.F.A in Creative Writing from Notre Dame where she was the  Diversity Fellow and Nicholas Sparks Fellow at Hachette Book Group. Her work has previously appeared in venues such as Fence, New Letters,  Indiana Review, the Robert Olen Butler Prize Stories anthology, and the Painted Bride Quarterly, among others, and has been nominated and cited in several Best American anthologies.

Renée Chambliss has been to Chinatown in San Francisco often. It's one of
the perks of living in northern California. Her kids love it and could
spend all day shopping there. Plastic num-chucks, parasols, tea sets, lion
puppets: there's so much to buy and they want everything! When she's not
saying "no, you can't have that", to their endless requests, Renee is
narrating audiobooks and wishing she could carve out some writing time.
Find out more about her at rechambliss.com."

Shan Chakraborty is a writer from Queens, New York who enjoys mashing up Persian epics and cooking unnecessarily complicated meals. Her short fiction has been published in the Kaleidocast, Crossed Genres, Expanded Horizons, The Future Fire, and Fae Visions of the Mediterranean. Currently shopping her first novel, she's also at work on a historical fantasy involving wayward lady pirates and cursed pearls in eighteenth-century Zanzibar.

You can find her short fiction and culinary blog at www.citiesofbrass.com or look for her on Twitter at @SChakrabs.

Lora Nicolas is an NYC based actor and singer. She recently won the 2014 BroadwayWorld Denver Best Actress award for her portrayal of Kim in Miss Saigon. She originated the role of Hannah in StinkyKids the Musical, the 2012 Off Broadway Alliance Award winner for Best Family Musical. Her regional credits include You're A Good Man, Charlie Brown as Lucy, Cinderella as Cinderella, West Side Story as Anita, Spelling Bee as Marcy Park, and Little Women as Meg among others. She was also on the national tour of James and the Giant Peach as Spider. She will be seen next in Bristol Valley Theatre's production of RENT, playing the role of Joanne. She is also currently pursuing some TV/Film, as well as commercial, print and voiceover work. www.loranicolas.com