Apex Magazine Podcast

"A Sister's Weight In Stone" by JY Yang -- published in Apex Magazine issue 72, May 2015. JY Yang has held seven jobs in four industries in under a decade. The one thing enduring this mess has been her endeavours as a speculative fiction writer. She has had short stories published in markets both Singaporean (Ceriph, Fish Eats Lion, From The Belly Of The Cat) and international (Clarkesworld, Crossed Genres, Strange Horizons). A graduate of the Clarion West workshop, J lives in Singapore in a bubble populated by her imagination and an indeterminate number of succulent plants named Lars. Find J on Twitter at @halleluyang. This Apex Magazine Podcast was performed and produced by Lisa Shininger. Music used with kind permission of Oh, Alchemy! Apex Magazine Podcast, Copyright Apex Publications.

"Beatification of the Second Fall" by Sean Robinson -- published in Apex Magazine issue 71, April 2015. In his day job, Sean Robinson works with at risk youth in the White Mountains of New Hampshire. He is a graduate of the Stonecoast MFA, and a semi-professional fire breather (the two probably aren't related). His work has appeared in Daily Science Fiction, Betwixt, and Apex Magazine. You can follow him on Twitter (infrequently) @Kesterian. This Apex Magazine Podcast was performed and produced by Lisa Shininger. Music used with kind permission of Oh, Alchemy! Apex Magazine Podcast, Copyright Apex Publications.

"Houdini’s Heart" by Thoraiya Dyer -- published in Apex Magazine issue 70, March 2015. Thoraiya Dyer is an award-winning Australian writer. Her short science fiction and fantasy stories have appeared in Clarkesworld, Apex, Analog, Nature and Cosmos, among others (for a full list, see www.thoraiyadyer.com ). Her collection of four original stories, Asymmetry, available from Twelfth Planet Press, was called "unsettling, poignant, marvellous" by Nancy Kress. A lapsed veterinarian, her other interests include bushwalking, archery, and travel. This Apex Magazine Podcast was performed and produced by Lisa Shininger. Music used with kind permission of Oh, Alchemy! Apex Magazine Podcast, Copyright Apex Publications.

"Requiem, for Solo Cello"—Published in Apex Magazine issue 69, February 2015. Read it here: https://apex-magazine.com/requiem-for-solo-cello/  Damien Angelica Walters’ short fiction has appeared in various magazines and anthologies, including Year’s Best Weird Fiction Volume One, The Best of Electric Velocipede, Strange Horizons, Nightmare, Lightspeed, Shimmer, Apex Magazine, Streets of Shadows, What Fates Impose, and Glitter & Mayhem. Paper Tigers, a novel, will be released in late 2015 from Dark House Press. Writing as Damien Walters Grintalis, Damien’s short fiction appeared in Lightspeed, Strange Hozons, Beneath Ceaseless Skies, Interzone, Fireside, Daily Science Fiction, and others, and Ink, a novel, was released in December 2012 by Samhain Horror. She’s also a freelance editor, and until the magazine's closing in 2013, she was an Associate Editor of the Hugo Award-winning Electric Velocipede. You can find her on Twitter @DamienAWalters or online at: http://damienangelicawalters.com.  This Apex

"Pocosin" by Ursula Vernon -- published in Apex Magazine issue 68, January 2015. Ursula Vernon is the author of the Hugo Award winning comic “Digger” and numerous children's books. She writes for adults under the name T. Kingfisher. She lives in North Carolina and gardens, if you can call it that. Find her online at www.tkingfisher.com. This Apex Magazine Podcast was performed and produced by Lisa Shininger. Music used with kind permission of Oh, Alchemy! Apex Magazine Podcast, Copyright Apex Publications

"Anthracite Wedding" by John Zaharick -- published in Apex Magazine issue 67, December 2014 John Zaharick grew up close to a mine fire destroyed town in rural Pennsylvania. He has worked as an assistant editor for a weekly newspaper, earned a master's degree in ecology, and currently lives in Minnesota where he supports the Baltimore Science Fiction Society long distance. His fiction has appeared in several magazines, including AE, Not One of Us, Stupefying Stories, and Plasma Frequency and his poetry in Strange Horizons and Silver Blade. He can be found online at www.johnzaharick.com. This Apex Magazine Podcast was performed by Windy Bowlsby and produced by Erika Ensign. Music used with kind permission of Oh, Alchemy! Apex Magazine Podcast, Copyright Apex Publications.

"Candy Girl" by Chikodili Emelumadu -- published in Apex Magazine issue 66, November 2014 Chikodili Emelumadu is a Nigerian writer and broadcaster living in London. When she is not writing, she spends her time looking for a way through platform 9¾ in Kings’ Cross station, Yggdrasil or any other portals between worlds – she’s not picky. She has been published in Eclectica magazine, Luna Station Quarterly and the now defunct Running Out of Ink magazine. She is working on her first novel. This Apex Magazine Podcast was performed by Chikodili Emelumadu and produced by Erika Ensign. Music used with kind permission of Oh, Alchemy! Apex Magazine Podcast, Copyright Apex Publications  

"The House in Winter" by Jessica Sirkin -- published in Apex Magazine Issue 65, October, 2014 Jessica Sirkin wrote her first speculative fiction story after reading Ray Bradbury's "The Veldt" in seventh grade. Now, between her day job as a technology journalist and her nighttime fiction writing habit, she spends more time typing than she does pretty much anything else. Jessica lives in Boston with her partner and their pet rabbit. This Apex Magazine Podcast was performed by Windy Bowlsby and produced by Erika Ensign. Music used with kind permission of Oh, Alchemy! Apex Magazine Podcast, copyright Apex Publications

"Economies of Force" by Seth Dickinson -- published in Apex Magazine issue 64, September, 2014 Seth Dickinson’s fiction has appeared in Clarkesworld, Analog, Strange Horizons, and more. He is a writer at Bungie Studios, an instructor at the Alpha Workshop for Young Writers, and a lapsed student of social neuroscience. His first novel, The Traitor Baru Cormorant, will be published by Tor Books in fall 2015.   This Apex Magazine Podcast was performed by Windy Bowlsby and produced by Erika Ensign. Music used with kind permission of Oh, Alchemy!   Apex Magazine Podcast, copyright Apex Publications

"Jupiter and Gentian" by Erik Amundsen -- published in Apex Magazine issue 63, August 2014 Erik Amundsen has been removed from display for being zoologically improbable and/or terrifying to small children. He has been sighted in Weird Tales, Fantasy Magazine, Not One of Us and Jabberwocky but his natural habitat is central Connecticut. This Apex Magazine Podcast was performed by Chikodili Emelumadu and produced by Erika Ensign. Music used with kind permission of Oh, Alchemy! Apex Magazine Podcast, Copyright Apex Publications.

"The Food in the Basement" by Laura Davy -- published in Apex Magazine issue 62, July 2014 Laura Davy lives in California with her husband and two cats. She wrote her first story when she was in Elementary School and, despite the fact that the plot didn't make sense, she kept on writing. You canmlearn more about her at www.lauradavy.com. This Apex Magazine Podcast was performed by Windy Bowlsby and produced by Erika Ensign. Music used with kind permission of Oh, Alchemy! Apex Magazine Podcast, Copyright Apex Publications

"The Soul of Soup Bones" by Crystal Lynn Hilbert -- published in Apex Magazine issue 61, June 2014 Crystal Lynn Hilbert lives in the forgotten backwaters of Western Pennsylvania, subsisting mostly on old trade paperbacks and tea. Her novellas Dead on Arrival and The Trickster Edda are currently available on Amazon.com, courtesy of Eggplant Literary Productions.   This Apex Magazine Podcast was performed by Windy Bowlsby and produced by Erika Ensign. Music used with kind permission of Oh, Alchemy!   Apex Magazine Podcast, Copyright Apex Publications

"Not Smart, Not Clever" by E. Saxey -- published in Apex Magazine issue 60, May 2014   E.Saxey lectures at the University of London, and has had short fiction published in Holdfast Magazine, Spacewitch Moonshots, and anthologies The Lowest Heaven and The Rite of Spring (Jurassic London). This Apex Magazine Podcast was performed by Windy Bowlsby, Tim Wick, and Lolly Foy and was produced by Erika Ensign. Music used with kind permission of Oh, Alchemy!   Apex Magazine Podcast, Copyright Apex Publications.

"Repairing the World" by John Chu -- published in Apex Magazine issue 59, April 2014 John Chu designs microprocessors by day. He writes fiction, narrates for podcasts, and translates fiction from Chinese into English by night. His stories have been published or are forthcoming in Boston Review, Asimov’s Science Fiction, and Tor.com among others. This Apex Magazine Podcast was performed by Windy Bowlsby and produced by Erika Ensign. Music used with kind permission of Oh, Alchemy! Apex Magazine Podcast, copyright Apex Publications

"Waking" by Cat Hellisen -- published in Apex Magazine issue 58, March, 2014 Cat Hellisen lives in Cape Town, South Africa, and writes stories that smell of iodine and dead fish. She's the author of the fantasy novels When the Sea is Rising Red, and House of Sand and Secrets. This Apex Magazine Podcast was performed by Windy Bowlsby and produced by Erika Ensign. Music used with kind permission of Oh, Alchemy! Apex Magazine Podcast, copyright Apex Publications

"Maria and the Pilgrim" by Rich Larson -- published in Apex Magazine issue 57, February, 2014 Rich Larson was born in West Africa, has studied in Rhode Island, and at 21 now lives in Edmonton, Alberta. He was a finalist for the 2013 Dell Award and received the 2012 Rannu Prize for Writers of Speculative Fiction. In 2011 his cyberpunk novel Devolution was a finalist for the Amazon Breakthrough Novel Award. His short work has since received honorable mention from Writers of the Future and appears or is forthcoming in Lightspeed, DSF, Strange Horizons, Apex Magazine, Beneath Ceaseless Skies, AE and many others, including anthologies Futuredaze and War Stories. His self-published spec-fic can be found at Amazon.com/author/richlarson. This Apex Magazine Podcast was performed by Windy Bowlsby and produced by Erika Ensign. Music used with kind permission of Oh, Alchemy! Apex Magazine Podcast, copyright Apex Publications

"Jackalope Wives" by Ursula Vernon -- published in Apex Magazine issue 56, January 2014 Ursula Vernon is the author and illustrator of the Hugo Award–winning graphic novel Digger as well as the author of the Dragonbreath series of children's books. She blogs at Red Wombat Studio, and podcasts fiction at The Hidden Almanac. She lives in North Carolina and does weird things to plants. This Apex Magazine Podcast was performed by Windy Bowlsby and produced by Erika Ensign. Music used with kind permission of Oh, Alchemy! Apex Magazine Podcast, copyright Apex Publications

"What You've Been Missing" by Maria Dahvana Headley -- published in Apex Magazine issue 55 December, 2013 Maria Dahvana Headley is the author of the dark fantasy/alt-history novel Queen of Kings, and the internationally bestselling memoir The Year of Yes. Her Nebula-nominated short fiction has recently appeared in Lightspeed, Subterranean, Nightmare, The Journal Of Unlikely Entomology, Glitter & Mayhem, Jurassic London's The Lowest Heaven and The Book of the Dead, and anthologized in the 2013 editions of Rich Horton’s The Year’s Best Fantasy & Science Fiction, and Paula Guran’s The Year’s Best Dark Fantasy & Horror. With Neil Gaiman, she is the New York Times-Bestselling co-editor of the young-adult monster anthology Unnatural Creatures, benefitting 826DC. Upcoming are a young adult skyship novel from HarperCollins, and a new novella (co-written with Kat Howard) from Subterranean. She lives in Brooklyn in an apartment full of celestial charts from the 1700's, two gilded hippocamps, and possibly,

"This is a Ghost Story" by Keffy R. M. Kehrli -- published in Apex Magazine issue 54 November, 2013 Keffy R. M. Kehrli is a science fiction and fantasy writer currently living in Seattle. Although his degrees are in physics and linguistics, he spends most of his time in a basement performing molecular biology experiments for fun and profit. In 2008, he attended Clarion UCSD where he learned that, unfortunately, rattlesnakes don’t always rattle. His short fiction has appeared in publications such as Apex Magazine, Lightspeed Magazine, and Escape Pod, among others. He is also an editor and slush reader for Shimmer magazine. This Apex Magazine Podcast was performed by Editor-in-Chief Lynne M. Thomas and produced by Erika Ensign. Music used with kind permission of Oh, Alchemy! Apex Magazine Podcast, copyright Apex Publications

“Becca at the End of the World” by Shira Lipkin -- published in  Apex Magazine, issue 53 October, 2013 Shira Lipkin has managed to convince Interfictions 2, Clockwork Phoenix 4, Stone Telling, Mythic Delerium, and other otherwise-sensible magazines and anthologies to publish her short fiction and poetry, and has not completely adjusted to winning the Rhysling Award. She fights crime with the Boston Area Rape Crisis Center, does six impossible things before breakfast, and would like a nap now. Her daughter just started college and is not a zombie. She still does not have a monkey. This Apex Magazine Podcast was performed by Editor-in-Chief Lynne M. Thomas and produced by Erika Ensign. Music used with kind permission of Oh, Alchemy! Apex Magazine Podcast, copyright Apex Publications