Mur Lafferty

Mur Lafferty was born under utterly mundane astrological signs. She prefers this to mean that she was definitely the most exciting thing going on in the universe at that time. She started her first book at age 13. It involved her best friends—all 12 of them—and unicorns. Thankfully it was never completed. Mur graduated with a BA in English from the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill and went into the exciting and promising career of a barista. It was 1996 and the Internet was just about to explode when she got a job as an administrative assistant to a technology guru. Three years and one layoff later, she was the webmaster at a computer games company. Four years and another layoff later, she began her career as a freelance writer. Mur has written for over 15 role-playing games, one textbook, one book on podcasting, and several magazines. Her column, Geek Fu Action Grip, appears regularly in the magazine Knights of the Dinner Table, and her column Dice Totin' Mama appears regularly in Games Quarterly Magazine. She has published fiction with the podcast Escape Pod and Scrybe Press. In 2004 Mur picked up a microphone and decided to try podcasting, a hobby that has eaten more time than she’d like to admit. Her most popular podcast, Geek Fu Action Grip, contains ramblings about the geek lifestyle as well as original essays. Lately she has been serializing an original story on her podcast, Heaven. She started a writing podcast in August, 2005, targeted at people who strive to be writers but are held back by doubts and self-constructed barriers. I Should Be Writing has proved to be quite popular as well. She also runs the podcasting technology for Senator John Edwards' One America Committee podcast. Mur likes sci fi, board gaming, growing and killing orchids, running, and gardening. Read more on Last.fm. User-contributed text is available under the Creative Commons By-SA License; additional terms may apply.