Season 1 Episode 65
FIELD BIOLOGY OF THE WEE FAIRIES
by NAOMI KRITZER
In 1960s America, fourteen-year-old Amelia is more interested in her science project than in hair, makeup, and boys. Her parents assure her that will all change when she catches a fairy and becomes pretty, but Amelia is skeptical.
Host & Producer
KT Bryski
Narrator
Brea Grant
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Field Biology of the Wee Fairies by Naomi Kritzer
About This Episode
Naomi Kritzer is a speculative fiction writer and blogger. Her 2015 short story "Cat Pictures Please" was a Locus Award and Hugo Award winner and was nominated for a Nebula Award. She has lived in London and Nepal. She currently lives in Minnesota and blogs on local elections.
This Apex Magazine podcast was produced by KT Bryski. Music in this podcast includes "The Snow Queen" and "Sneaky Adventure," both by Kevin MacLeod and licensed under the Creative Commons Attribution license. For more information, visit him at www.incompetech.com.
Our narrator for this episode is Brea Grant. Brea is an e-reader who moonlights as an actress and filmmaker (most recently, she can be seen on the television show The Arrangement and in movies like A Ghost Story and Dead Awake) and daylights as a podcast co-host on the show Reading Glasses. She writes comic books, reads sci-fi, and thinks ghosts are funny. You know her face from television.
Apex Magazine podcast, copyright Apex Publications.
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