R.L. Maizes's novel, Other People's Pets (Celadon Books, Macmillan), is a Colorado Book Award winner and a Library Journal Best Debut of Summer/Fall 2020. She is the author of the short story collection We Love Anderson Cooper (Celadon Books). Her stories have aired on National Public Radio and can be found in Electric Literature's Recommended Reading and in The Best Small Fictions 2020. Maizes's essays have been published in The New York Times, The Washington Post, O Magazine and Literary Hub and have aired on NPR. Her humour articles have run in The New York Times and in McSweeney's Internet Tendency. Maizes was born in Queens, New York, and lives in Boulder County, CO.
Sass Pinci is an award-winning Australian actor, writer, director and producer. Her notable stage and screen credits including Dark Arcadia, All the World’s a Stage, the award-winning horror feature Queen Evil and the Australian indie feature When the House is Empty. As a producer and director for both stage and screen, Sass has worked on many projects to fruition, such as popular theatre production Frypan and the successful Fringe show My Failed Career.
Nick Mitchell is an accomplished Australian theatre and screen actor. Nick has appeared in the award-winning 2012 production Underground: The Julian Assange Story and 2011's Emmy-nominated ABC series The Slap. Other notable on screen roles including Round the Twist, Apple Cider Vinegar and Miss Fisher's Murder Mysteries. As a voice actor, Nick has narrated titles such as Killing Mr-Rent-A-Kill by Duncan McNab and The Last Battle by Aaron Patrick.