Kissing Carrion

Gemma Files, a former film critic, journalist, screenwriter, and teacher, has been an award-winning horror author since 1999. She has published two collections of short work; two chapbooks of speculative poetry; the “weird western” Hexslinger series; a story-cycle; and the standalone novel Experimental Film, which won the 2016 Shirley Jackson Award for Best Novel and the 2016 Sunburst Award for Best Adult Novel.

Neil Hellegers grew up in New Jersey and attended the University of Pennsylvania, where he earned a BA in theater arts and a minor in psychology before getting an MFA in acting from the Trinity Rep Conservatory in Providence, Rhode Island. He moved to New York City in 2003 and, since then, has made a career of theatrical performance, percussion, theater education, and audiobook narration. He currently lives in Brooklyn with his wife and son.

Chelsea Stephens is an experienced, AudioFile Earphones Award–winning voice actor with a talent for mystery, sci-fi, and YA novels.

If you've watched TV at all in the past ten years, you've definitely seen her face and heard her voice countless times in any number of wildly successful national, global, and Super Bowl commercials, as well as playing the first blond Vulcan in Star Trek history. The daughter of two English professors, Natasha Soudek was raised in the South, speaks native German, lived in Berlin and Vienna, and finally settled in the Lower East Side of New York City as a teenager. After honing her stage presence by studying acting and playing hundreds of sold-out live music shows (singing and playing bass), she moved to LA to record with Channel/DreamWorks and act on TV. Favored on KCRW, Chris Douridas compared her voice and songwriting to the Beatles' Let it Be in meaning and soulfulness... qualities that translate especially well into her career as an audiobook narrator. Her voice is as distinct and memorable as the range of characters she's played on-screen, which gives listeners an immediate familiarity to connect to, along with a warmth and intimacy that spans and uplifts any genre.

After ten years of being on the "other side of the business" as a franchised talent agent, Meghan Kelly decided to pursue her own performance aspirations. She now works full-time as a narrator, voice-over artist, and singer. Meghan, a proud member of SAG/AFTRA, is a versatile actress who draws from a huge emotional pool to bring a variety of characters to life in the 300-plus titles she has narrated. She specializes in bringing the emotional truth to every story. Meghan's sound: She can be warm and friendly, young and sassy, flighty and ditsy, mature and professional, and of course sultry and sexy! She is very good with taking direction and doing a read several different ways.

Andrew Eiden has been narrating audiobooks since his first title in 2012. An eclectic story teller and broadly talented actor, his narration spans nearly every genre from Disney children’s books like Frozen, literary works by Jack Kerouac as well as award winning non-fiction works. He has over one thousand audiobooks under his belt, many performed under his much spicier romance/erotica pseudonym: Teddy Hamilton. A staple name in romance audio, he has contributed his voice to books from best selling independent and published authors alike in nearly all sub-genres of the Romance craft.

Xe Sands is an Earphones award-winning narrator known for her authentic characterizations and intimate delivery. She has more than a decade of experience bringing stories to life through narration, performance, and visual art and has recorded more than two hundred titles. She has also been recognized for her engaging romance narrations.

Paul Woodson has won SOVAS & Earphones awards, and has recorded close to 350 audiobooks in many different genres—including romance, fiction, history, biography, and mystery—in American and British accents—and received his BFA in acting at Boston University. In his theater days, he worked in many NYC shows, toured the USA and Europe, and starred in NYC as Vincent van Gogh in the sung-through, OOBR Award–winning musical Vincent. He enjoys backpacking the Appalachian Trail and visiting national parks in his spare time. He is a member of SAG-AFTRA.