LeVar Burton Reads Creators & Guests

LeVar Burton is an actor, director, educator & co-founder of the award-winning S... more

Adam Deibert is a musician and editor of the LeVar Burton Reads podcast.... more

Talon Stradley is the creator of the independent podcast studio, Newton's Dark R... more

Julia M. Smith is a podcast producer, show-runner, and consultant.

Kendra Fortmeyer is an author and editor. Professionally, she is a marketing man... more

Charlie Jane Anders is a writer and commentator. She has written several novels ... more

Nisi Shawl is a writer, editor, and journalist. They are best known as an author... more

James McBride is a writer and musician.

Lesley Nneka Arimah is an author.Arimah's work has appeared in The New Yorker,... more

Walidah Imarisha is a writer, activist, educator and spoken word artist. Current... more

Nnedimma Nkemdili "Nnedi" Okorafor is a Nigerian-American writer of fantasy and ... more

Bonnie Jo Stufflebeam is a fantasy fiction author. She also coordinates the annu... more

Ken Liu is an American author of speculative fiction.

Joan Delano Aiken was an author who is best known for her supernatural fiction a... more

Oscar Casares is an American writer, an associate professor of creative writing,... more

Tobias S. Buckell is a science fiction writer. His 2008 novel, Halo: The Cole Pr... more

Isabel Yap is a writer of fiction and poetry. She also works in the tech industr... more

Percival Everett is a writer and Professor of English at the University of South... more

Steven Millhauser is an author of novels and short stories. He taught at Skidmor... more