Michael Crouch has recorded over 400 audiobooks for major publishers, small presses, and independent authors. He is best known for narrating contemporary fiction, young adult, and middle-grade titles.

His work has earned a Golden Voice honor from AudioFile Magazine, Audie Awards, over thirty Earphones Awards, YALSA and ALSC selections, a Voice Arts Award, and Best of the Year listings from Audible, Slate, School Library Journal, Publishers Weekly, AudioFile, Parade, and Booklist.

Acclaimed and bestselling authors include Pat Conroy, Ursula K. Le Guin, Judy Blume, Rick Riordan, Stephen Graham Jones, Gore Vidal, Louis L’Amour, Rebecca Makkai, Stephenie Meyer, James Patterson, Becky Albertalli, Adam Silvera, Madeleine L’Engle, Gayle Foreman, and many more.

He grew up in Texas, studied theatre in upstate New York, and currently lives in the South Bronx.

Expertise:
Young characters—preteens to 30s
Southern American literature
LGBTQ+ fiction

“There’s an emotional depth to michael’s performance that stunned me.”

- becky albertalli, author of simon vs. the homo sapiens agenda

“What makes this audiobook special is Michael Crouch's comic timing.”

- School Library Journal

“Crouch moves among characters with ease, vocally representing a full spectrum of emotion that gives richness and depth to the performance and draws the listener in."

- Booklist

“Crouch's narration, as deft as ever, uses pitch, inflection, and judiciously deployed Southern accents to balance quiet characterizations with compelling pacing.”

- AUDIOFILE MAGAZINE

Narration Samples

Accents and Dialects