Our Crew

Marguerite Kenner (she/her) – Co-Publisher; President and CEO

Marguerite Kenner is a dual-national Californian living in the UK. She’s the co-publisher, President and CEO of the Escape Artists Foundation. A practicing lawyer, she loves to perform in audio dramas and podcasts, and play videogames, often where people watch.

Her contributions to genre fiction include editing Cast of Wonders from 2013 to 2019, being a Hugo Award finalist  as the editor of The Full Lid, community organizing, and teaching business skills to independent creatives.

 

Alasdair Stuart (he/him) – Co-Publisher; Board member

Alasdair Stuart is a professional enthusiast, pop culture analyst, writer and voice actor. He is a multiple Hugo Award finalist including Best Fan Writer, a British Fantasy Society Best Non-fiction finalist for his weekly pop culture newsletter The Full Lid, and won the 2021 Audioverse Award for his voice work in The Magnus Archives.

His nonfiction can be found at numerous genre and pop culture venues, including regular columns at the Hugo Award-winning Ditch Diggers and Fox Spirit Books. His game writing includes ENie-nominated work on the Doctor Who RPG, and After The War co-created with Genesis of Legend.

He’s co-publisher and on the board of directors for the Escape Artists Foundation and hosts their horror podcast, PseudoPod, along with the Hugo Award nominated science fiction podcast, Escape Pod. He is a frequent guest and presenter on podcasts, with voice acting credits including The Magnus Archives and the upcoming Secret of St. Kilda.

Alasdair’s most recent work is THE DAY OF THE DOCTOR, the 50th instalment in the Black Archive collection of academic Doctor Who treatises by Obverse Books. He has two volumes of expanded essays from PseudoPod — as well as multiple short stories — available from Fox Spirit Books.

A frequent awards judge including the Arthur C. Clarke, The Kitschies, Brave New Words and the BFS, he blogs at www.alasdairstuart.com and is on Twitter @AlasdairStuart.

Tierney Bailey (she/her) – Publishing Assistant

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.

 

 

 

 

Srikripa Krishna Prasad (she/her) – Marketing Assistant

Sri is a recent university graduate, hailing from near Toronto, Ontario, who is (metaphorically) wandering the world, searching for purpose. She is deeply fond of reading and writing speculative fiction, especially fantasy, and is working on several stories to hopefully publish one day. Outside of writing, she is learning how to play the guitar, practicing the violin, daydreaming, and trying to motivate herself to finish any of the numerous projects she has going. You can find her on Twitter at @sriative, where she rarely tweets but lurks in the shadows, casting her judgmental yet benevolent eye over the world.

 

 

 

Dave Robison (he/him) – Production Concierge

Dave Robison is an avid Literary and Vocal Alchemist who pursues a wide range of creative explorations. A Brainstormer, Keeper of the Buttery Man-Voice, and Eternal Optimist, Dave’s creative ADHD ensures that he’ll have a half-dozen projects going at any given time. His dulcet tones have narrated dozens of stories for Escape Artists, Inc. and he’s currently shepherding several projects including a story mapping and presentation tool, and a zombie-themed coffee company. His decade-long pursuit of vocal adventures have invested him with audio production superpowers that he wields cheerfully on behalf of Escape Artists Inc.

 

 

 

 

Wilson Fowlie (he/him) – Production Custodian

Wilson Fowlie has been reading stories out loud since the age of four, and credits any talent he has for it to his parents, who are both excellent at reading aloud.
He started narrating stories for more than just his own family in late 2008, when he answered a call for readers on the PodCastle forum. Since then, he has gone on to read dozens of stories for PodCastle, all of the other Escape Artists ’casts, StarShipSofa and other District of Wonder podcasts, Kaleidocast, Gallery of Curiosities, Dunesteef Audio Fiction magazine and several others.
Wilson became familiar with audio mixing and production while creating custom rehearsal tracks while directing a community choir.
He does all this when not at his day job as a corporate video voiceover performer and producer in Vancouver, Canada. And if he ever feels safe indoors in public again, Wilson hopes to get back to acting in local theatre productions.

Summer Brooks (she/her) – Technical Team

Summer Brooks is a story addict who watches way too much television. She enjoys putting her encyclopedic knowledge to the test during discussions and interviews about scifi, horror and comics, and does so as the longtime host and producer of Slice of SciFi, and as co-host of The Babylon Podcast.

Summer also does voiceovers & narrations for Tales to Terrify, StarShipSofa and Escape Pod, among others, and is an avid reader and writer of science fiction, fantasy and thrillers, with a handful of publishing credits to her name. Next on her agenda is writing an urban fantasy tale, and a monster movie creature feature or two. Find her online or on Twitter.

 

Matt Dovey (he/him) – Graphic Artist

Matt Dovey is very tall, very British, and most likely drinking a cup of tea right now. A village elder once told him the scar on his arm 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 still struggles to express his delight in this wonderful arrangement. Although his surname rhymes with “Dopey”, any other similarities to the dwarf are coincidental. He has fiction out and forthcoming all over the place: keep up with it at mattdovey.com, or find him timewasting on Twitter as @mattdoveywriter.

Sam Ferree (he/him) – Development Assistant

Sam is a nonprofit development professional and writer living in the Minneapolis-Saint Paul metro. By day, he writes grants for a postsecondary access and career readiness service provider supporting public high school students. By night (and weekends) he writes short stories, plays, essays. He has been a dedicated listener of Escape Artists’ podcasts since 2005 and has always wanted to contribute more to this community. When Escape Artists announced it was becoming a nonprofit in 2023, he immediately reached out to beg to help them with institutional fundraising, and now here he is. When he is not working, writing, reading, and/or listening to podcasts, Sam enjoys playing board and video games, gardening, and hanging out with his beloved partner (also a writer), friends, and two cats Pippin and Cassius (also pictured). You can learn more about Sam and his other projects at SamFerree.com.

Brian Lieberman (he/him) – Solutions Engineer

Brian Lieberman is a Solutions Engineer at the Escape Artists Foundation, leading the  charge to further refine the exciting process of telling great stories every week. When he’s not building better systems, he’s usually wrestling with his two corgis, dozing off on his wife, gaming into the early hours, or plotting the next trip to Japan.

M-Jo Baker (she/her) – Accounting Team

M-Jo Baker (she/her) is a disabled human who lives in the wet NW corner of the USA.  She is owned by two black cats who occasionally let her out for good behaviour.  Her SF&F addiction started early with her Mom reading her The Hobbit at bedtime, attending her first SF con at age 16, and it was all downhill from there.  M-Jo owned a small business for 15 years but has now returned to captivity.  She reads a lot and has listened to EA since Escape Pod 26.

Justin Radick (he/him) – Accounting Team

Paul Haring (he/him) – Accounting Advisor

Paul’s involvement with Escape Artists started in 2007.  He was EA’s accountant for fifteen years as it grew from a single podcast to five podcasts with a world-wide audience.  Paul continues to support the Escape Artists Foundation as a valued advisor to our Accounts Crew.

Paul is a corporate CPA in the Chicagoland area with a growing family.  When not accounting, Paul is an award-winning podcast novelist under pen name P.C. Haring.

Scarlett Ross – Contract Administrator (she/her)

Scarlett is a passionate Virtual Assistant/Professional human in development and all around hard worker, blending skills from all areas of her life as an English teacher, published author, executive support staff, Domestic Goddess, educator, event coordinator, project manager, mime, editor, and stage crew together with her deepest wish – to make my corner of the universe a little better. She has won awards, been on TV, and served in community volunteer work, but is most proud that she is creating the world she wants to live in through choice and all things crafting. She enjoys spending time with the family of her heart – dogs, cats, and horses, oh my!

 

Jennifer Hunt (she/her) – Assistant Producer (Twitch); Community Moderator

Jennifer lives in south Wales, where she spends her time attempting to befriend the local dogs and making dice, in the hopes that once she amasses a large enough hoard, she will be able to assume her true draconic form and be free of retail forever. She also enjoys writing, reading, listening to music and podcasts, and sploshing through the edge of the sea in waterproof boots.

Profile photo by Lho Brockhoff

 

Ciaran Roberts (she/they) – Lead Community Moderator

Ciaran lives in the not-so-wilds of Yorkshire with a very yappy dog. She works as a professional zombie wrangler/producer for a video game company, which is hilarious because she is deathly afraid of zombies. In her free time, she plays video games, embarks on various creative projects (look, she will totally finish a project eventually), and writes fiction. Likes decorating cakes to look like things from whatever piece of media she’s into at the moment.

 

 

Wendy Reynolds (she/her) – Community Moderator

Wendy Reynolds lives in York UK with her husband and a varying complement of guinea pigs.  She works as a Further Education funding and data consultant (which mostly involves rummaging around in databases and complaining bitterly about the mess) to fund her hobbies of reading, sinking thousands of hours into computer games, and crocheting cunning little outfits for sourdough starters.  She only recently discovered the exciting world of podcasts, Twitch streaming, and red-stringing on Discord servers, and has gleefully plunged feet-first into all three.  She lurks on Twitter as @Wendles1967.

 

 

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