Joseph Fink is the creator of the Welcome to Night Vale and Alice Isn't Dead podcasts, and the author of the New York Times bestselling novels Welcome to Night Vale, It Devours!, and The Faceless Old Woman Who Secretly Lives in Your Home (all written with Jeffrey Cranor) and Alice Isn’t Dead. He is also the author of the children’s novel, The Halloween Moon. He and his wife, Meg Bashwiner, have written the memoir, The First Ten Years. They live together in the Hudson River Valley.

Founded in 2015 by Joseph Fink and Jeffrey Cranor, creators of the genre-defining fiction podcast Welcome to Night Vale, Night Vale Presents is an independent podcast network focused on storytelling, art, and creativity. Night Vale Presents is dedicated to promoting independent podcasting, through both boundary-pushing fiction projects and original non-fiction work.

Night Vale Presents is home to Welcome to Night Vale, a twice-monthly podcast in the style of community updates for the small desert town of Night Vale; Within the Wires, a story told through found audio from an alternate universe; Random Number Generator Horror Podcast No. 9, explores the psychological depths of horror films and provides an approachability guide for those who might be squeamish about the genre; Start With This, a creativity playground designed to help writers, podcasters, and artists put their ideas in motion; and more.

Our shows have been featured in The New York Times, The Guardian, Huffington Post, Wired, Entertainment Weekly, The A.V. Club, The Washington Post, and Vulture. Night Vale Presents podcasts have over 330 million downloads worldwide and are listened to in almost every country in the world. Night Vale Presents pioneered live podcast touring with Welcome to Night Vale, and across the network has produced over 400 live events in 40 U.S. states and 18 countries.