About this episode

Cindy Kay discusses her journey from academia to becoming an award-winning audiobook narrator.

Today we're serving up a conversation that is truly rich and layered. My guest is an award-winning audiobook narrator whose voice has carried listeners across galaxies and an extraordinary range of genres — from courtroom thrillers to the tender first pages of a children's story to the electric tension of a literary mystery. And speaking of galaxies, I actually crossed paths with her as a fellow cast member on the sci-fi podcast The Mysterious CHIRP, where she played Sergeant Boorsha of the Intergalactic Police Force — boarding the CHIRP from the sister ship, The Black Opal. Originally from the Bay Area in California, her path to audiobook narration unfolded through a deep and lifelong love of literature — long before she ever stepped into a recording booth. She spent years in lecture halls, libraries, and university classrooms, immersed in the world of stories in a very different way. You see, Cindy Kay — or rather, Dr. Kay — earned her PhD in Comparative Literature from Purdue University, and it was during her twelve years as a university professor that she discovered audiobooks and quickly fell under their spell. Around that same time, she began volunteering to read aloud to…

People in this episode

Host: Cheryl Holling

Guest: Cindy Kay

Topics covered

• audiobook narration
• literature
• voice acting
• science fiction
• education
• children's literature

Keywords

• Cindy Kay
• audiobooks
• narration
• literature
• voice talent
• science fiction
• Purdue University

Mentioned in this episode

Organizations: Purdue University, Penguin Random House, Simon & Schuster, Hachette, Tanto

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