The podcast in front of you rattles unsettlingly, something skittas inside,

the label shifts into view, warning, adult content.

Hi, I'm Lisa Kroger. I'm your host this week with Melanie R. Anderson,

and we co-authored the book Monster She Wrote. We'd love for you to check out our latest book

with Quirk Books, Toil and Trouble, which is available for pre-order now.

And I'm your other host, Melanie. We'd also love for you to check out our other

venture, the Monster She Wrote podcast. Our author this week is Eris Young. Eris is a queer,

transgender author of speculative fiction. Their work has appeared in magazines such as Escape Pod,

Fusion Fragment, and Metasteller, as well as anthologies, including Untie Any Bodies

from Luna Press Publishing, and their story All That Water, won first prize in the 2021 British

Fantasy Society Short Story Competition. They are the fiction editor at Shoreline of Infinity

Sci-Fi Magazine. Edo Manaya is a pseudopod original.

Our narrator this week is Steph B. Biankeany. Steph lives in Scotland after regretfully

relocating from East Asia. They are a scientist and an academic by professional practice,

and a historian by education. They blog about the space sector, speculative fiction,

and Japanese manga at the Earthian Hive Mind, and edit the easy frozen wavelengths of speculative

flash fiction and poetry. As a fiction writer, Steph is a member of SFWA and HWA, writing under

the byline Russell Hemble. Their short stories and poetry have appeared in various publications,

including Oriales, Cast of Wonders, Flame Tree Press, The Grievous Angel, and others.

They joined the pseudopod team as an associate editor in 2020.

Audio production this week is courtesy of Chelsea Davis, and you should check out her non-fiction

work over at Tour Night Fire and other places, which can be found at ChelseaMDavis.net.

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