Jeffrey Cranor is one half, along with Joseph Fink, of the duo behind the popular podcast drama and accompanying novelizations of Welcome to Night Vale. In all its iterations, Welcome to Night Vale broadcasts the odd happenings from the fictional town of Night Vale. The podcast began in 2012. Cranor is also a playwright; he and his choreographer wife, Jillian Sweeney, have produced several shows together, such as Vulture-Wally and This Could Be It. He is also heavily involved in productions with the New York Neo-Futurists, with whom he has written, directed, and performed a number of plays. The first Night Vale novel, Welcome to Night Vale, was published in 2015 and was both critically and commercially successful. The newest Night Vale Novel is It Devours!

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