- Escape Pod: Finalist for the 2025, 2024, 2023, 2022, 2021, 2020, & 2018 Best Semiprozine Hugo Award and 2022, 2021 Ignyte Award for Best Podcast Magazine
- Mur Lafferty: Finalist for the 2022, 2021 Best Editor Short Form Hugo Award (with SB Divya)
- Ditch Diggers: WINNER of the 2018 Best Fancast Hugo Award, nominee of 2017 Award
- Six Wakes: Finalist for the 2018 Hugo, Nebula, and Philip K. Dick Awards
- Mur Lafferty: Winner of the Astounding Award for Best New Writer (Formerly Campbell Award)
- The Shambling Guides 1 & 2: Winner of the Manly Wade Wellman Award (2014 & 15)
- Mur Lafferty: Inaugural inductee into the Podcast Academy Hall of Fame, 2015
“…one of the worst-kept secrets in science fiction and fantasy publishing.”
– Cory Doctorow via BoingBoing
Latest novel: Infinite Archive
Amateur sleuth Mallory Viridian has just about got her bearings aboard the space station she calls home, but now the physical embodiment of the Internet is on its way, and it’s bringing murder with it. From the Hugo-nominated author of Six Wakes. Learn more and order!
Latest novella: “The Ophelia Network”
Blues Clues meets 1984 in this novella available via Audible or Argyll productions! The fascist government controls the Internet, and communication between the resistance is difficult, but some have a plan. It involves a children’s television show with puppets, codes, and the friendly AI assistant everyone has in their houses. Learn more!
I Should Be Writing podcast
This is the Podcast Peer- and Parsec Award-winning show that I’ve been hosting and producing since 2005. I’ve used the show to chronicle and discuss the bumps one encounters through working on a writing career by talking about my own situation and interviewing several pro writers. Focusing on the emotional road blocks one finds in a writing career, this show speaks to over 13000 listeners every week. Learn more and follow the show here!
Ditch Diggers podcast
The winner of the 2018 Best Fancast Hugo Award, Ditch Diggers focuses on the business of writing, when the craft is not as important as the deadline. (Oh, the craft is very important. But deadline without craft can be worked with, but craft without deadline will never pay the bills.) We don’t worry about art here, we worry about the business of your writing. With Matt Wallace and most recently T. Kingfisher as co-hosts.
Bio
An inaugural inductee of the Podcast Academy’s Hall of Fame, Mur Lafferty began podcasting in 2004 and later built her writing career from her work as a science fiction podcaster.
As of 2026, Mur has written ten novels, eight novellas, and one nonfiction book that are available in stores, online retailers, and through this site. Her work has ranged from Star Wars to superhero fiction to afterlife fiction to paranormal fantasy to space murder–plus one book supporting writers based on her award winning podcast.
After winning the 2013 Astounding Award for Best New Writer (formerly the Campbell Award), her work has been nominated for the Hugo, Nebula, Parsec, Philip K. Dick, Manly Wade Wellman, and Podcast Peer Awards. Her podcast Ditch Diggers, with Matt Wallace, won the 2018 Best Fancast Hugo Award.
As an editor, Mur was the first editor of Pseudopod and Mothership Zeta, and is currently the co-editor of Escape Pod (with Valerie Valdes), eight-time finalist for the Hugo Award for Best Semiprozine.
Her nonfiction work has appeared in Knights of the Dinner Table, and on the podcast The Dragon Page. In 2014, she received an MFA in popular fiction from the Stonecoast program at the University of Southern Maine.
She lives in Durham, NC, with her husband. She likes video games, tabletop games, murder mysteries, and dogs.
Business/rights queries should go through agent Seth Fishman at The Gernert Company.
