Our Authors
The people whose words you fall asleep to. Some are classic authors, from Jane Austen to Jules Verne, whose works are now in the public domain. The rest are our own writers, creating original sleepy stories for our shows.
Our writers
Alexander Saxton
Writes for Get Sleepy
Alexandra Turney
A Londoner turned Roman, writing and editing sleepy stories from Italy.
Alicia Steffann
Fairy tales made new, written between Washington, D.C. and the coast of Maine.
Chase Doan
Writes for Get Sleepy
Christa Adams
A British American writer in Barcelona whose travels fuel her stories.
Diana Avram-Anghel
Writes for Get Sleepy
Divya Tiwari
A writer in India whose travels through Karnataka inspired her sleepy stories.
Frankie Regalia
Writes for Get Sleepy
Jacob Duarte Spiel
Writes for Get Sleepy
Jo Steer
A Yorkshire teacher and writer behind many of Get Sleepy's history stories.
Kayla Kurin
A Toronto writer of travel, health, and fiction with a soft spot for Nova Scotia.
Laila Weir
Writes for Get Sleepy
Leila Kheiry
Writes for Get Sleepy
Lily Loveless
A London screenwriter who listened to Get Sleepy long before she wrote for it.
Lottie Finklaire
An award-winning filmmaker and actress who writes stories of life's mysteries and joys.
MJ Lyons
Writes for Get Sleepy
Sanjana Ramesh
A writer and illustrator from Chennai who finds the extraordinary in the everyday.
Shady Grove Oliver
Get Sleepy's editor and head writer, working from the Sonoran Desert.
Shamica Latchman
An Oxfordshire fantasy writer inspired by the magic she sees in the world.
Stephanie Chamberlain
A writer, translator, and engineer in El Salvador drawn to worlds of awe and wonder.
Thomas Jones
British, deep, and unbelievably soothing. Gentle and familiar, like the comfort of your own pillow.
Classic authors
A.A. Milne
The Hundred Acre Wood, where the worst that happens is running out of honey.
Andrew Lang
Two small collections from the great Victorian gatherer of fairy tales.
Arthur Conan Doyle
Five Sherlock Holmes recordings, and a case for mysteries as bedtime listening.
Beatrix Potter
Small animal tales with tiny endings, sized for the shortest attention of the day.
Charles Dickens
Two ghost-tinged Christmas tales, one revolution novel, and where each belongs in a bedtime queue.
Charles Perrault
The 1697 tales behind Cinderella and Puss in Boots, told across all three of our shows.
Charlotte Brontë
Jane Eyre, Villette, and the case for the quieter novel after dark.
E.M. Forster
Edwardian comedy of manners where the crisis is a room assignment.
Edith Nesbit
Edwardian wishes, tame dragons, and Shakespeare retold gently.
Elizabeth Gaskell
One nearly plotless village and one smoky mill town: opposite prescriptions for night.
F. Scott Fitzgerald
Jazz Age prose you listen to for the sentences, since you already know how it ends.
Frances Hodgson Burnett
Two orphan classics, each recorded in both of our fiction voices.
George MacDonald
A floating princess and a goblin kingdom, from a pioneer of Victorian fantasy.
H.G. Wells
Victorian science fiction at a sleeping pace: time travel, Martians, and where to begin.
Hans Christian Andersen
The Danish fairy tales, told slowly: single stories for one night, collections for many.
Jane Austen
Four novels where nothing worse than embarrassment happens, read for the third or thirtieth time.
Joseph Jacobs
Beanstalk beats you know by heart, and Indian folk tales you likely don't.
Jules Verne
Submarines, volcanoes, and one wager: which Verne voyages are built for sleep.
Kenneth Grahame
The riverbank at reading speed: messing about in boats as a sleep aid.
L. Frank Baum
Three Oz road trips and a Santa Claus origin story, all paced for lights-out.
L.M. Montgomery
Fourteen recordings across the Anne and Emily series, read by two narrators on two shows.
Lewis Carroll
Dream logic on purpose: nonsense that meets the falling-asleep mind halfway.
Louisa May Alcott
New England hearth stories, from Little Women to the fairy tales she wrote first.
Madame d'Aulnoy
French salon fairy tales from the writer credited with naming the form.
P.G. Wodehouse
Jeeves always fixes it: comedy where the stakes never survive the chapter.
Robert Louis Stevenson
Pirates, feuds, and one respectable doctor with a secret: three very different nights.
The Brothers Grimm
The household tales, slowed down: which Grimm stories rest easy and which bite.
Virginia Woolf
Modernist prose with almost no plot to follow, which is precisely the point at 11pm.
Washington Irving
A man who sleeps for twenty years, and a headless horseman for autumn nights.
Dozens more writers have contributed to Slumber Studios over the years. The pages here cover the classic authors credited on two or more of our audiobooks, and our own writers.
Looking for narrators? They are the voices who read these stories.