Jim Freund

Jim Freund has been involved in producing radio programs of and about literary sf/f since 1967, when he began working at New York City's WBAI-FM at age 13. Jim has been sole host of the radio program Hour of the Wolf - - which continues to broadcast weekly - - since 1974. Archives of past episodes of Hour of the Wolf are available on-demand for several weeks after broadcast. A podcast version of new and 'classic' programs is anticipated with bated breath.

Over the years, he has produced myriad radio dramas and lost track long ago of how many interviews and readings he has conducted. He considers himself a specialist in presenting the author’s voice as well as working with professional narrators. His work has been twice nominated for and once was a winner of the Major Armstrong Award for Excellence in Radio Production.

Jim is also the host for Lightspeed Magazine’s podcast, as well as its Post-Production Editor, a stint which has led him led him astray into the world of editing and producing audiobooks.

This past June saw the release of Chatting Science Fiction: Selected Interviews from Hour of the Wolf produced by Skyboat Media and available through Downpour.com as a CD set and through Audible. com as downloads. Highlights include discussions with Ursula K. Le Guin, Ray Bradbury, Nalo Hopkinson, Ken Liu, and a dozen more great minds of the fantastic genres.

Jim is currently Producer and Executive Curator of The New York Review of Science Fiction Readings, just wrapping its 25th season, and now available on Livestream. He has also dabbled in producing for the New York stage -- once with alarming success. He occasionally maintains his Web site at http://hourwolf.com and sporadically tweets as @JimFreund, but for now you’re more likely to encounter him on Facebook.