Midnight in Karachi Podcast Creators & Guests

Mahvesh Murad is an editor, a book critic and a voice artist from Karachi, Pakistan. She writes regularly for Dawn, Tor.com, Strange Horizons and Pornokitsch, narrates and produces the Apex podcast as well as Tor.com’s Midnight in Karachi podcast. She is also the editor of The Apex Book of World SF 4, and the co-editor of The Djinn Falls in Love & Other Stories.

David C. Tallerman is an author of dark fantasy fiction.Tallerman's stories have appeared in Beneath Ceaseless Skies, Mysterion, The Dark, Nightmare Magazine, Hybrid Fiction, Interzone, Clarkesworld, Lightspeed, and Alfred Hitchcock’s Mystery Magazine. His first book, the collection "The Sign in the Moonlight and Other Stories," was published in 2016. He has since published nine novels.Tallerman received his B.A. and his M.A. in English Literature from the University of York.

Marie Brennan is the pseudonym of Bryn Neuenschwander, an author of fantasy fiction.Previously, Brennan was an anthropologist and folklorist, and was pursuing her PhD at Indiana University Bloomington before she became a full-time writer.Brennan has published over sixty short stories and eleven books in the Victorian adventure series The Memoirs of Lady Trent, the Onyx Court series, and the Rook & Rose series, as well as two non-series novels. She wrote three non-fiction guides to world-building for writers. She is also a co-author of the books published under the pseudonym M. A. Carrick.

Molly Tanzer is an American fantasy, horror, and science fiction writer, novelist, and social worker.

Genevieve Valentine is a science fiction and fantasy writer.Valentine's novel, "Mechanique: A tale of the Circus Tresaulti," was published in 2012, won the Crawford Award for a first fantasy novel and was shortlisted for the Nebula Award. She is currently writing The Persona Series, a science fiction thriller series which so far includes the novels "Persona," published in 2015, and "Icon," published in 2016.Valentine's fiction has appeared in many Best of the Year anthologies, including Best American Science Fiction and Fantasy. Her cultural criticism has appeared at NPR.org, The AV Club, LA Review of Books, Vice, Vox, and The New York Times.Valentine has also written scripts for DC Comics' "Catwoman" and "Batman and Robin Eternal" and Dynamite's "Xena: Warrior Princess."

Nisi Shawl is a writer, editor, and journalist. They are best known as an author of science fiction and fantasy short stories. In addition to writing, they teach about how fantastic fiction might reflect real-world diversity of gender, sexual orientation, race, colonialism, physical ability, age, and other sociocultural factors.Shawl's short stories have appeared in Asimov's Science Fiction, the Infinite Matrix, Strange Horizons, and Semiotext(e). Their first collection, "Filter House," was published in 2008, and won the James Tiptree, Jr. Award. Their first novel, "Everfair," was published in 2016 and was nominated for a Nebula Award.With with Cynthia Ward, Shawl co-authored the creative-writing handbook "Writing the Other: Bridging Cultural Differences for Successful Fiction." The book is derived from the authors' workshop of the same name, in which participants explore techniques to help them write credible characters outside their own cultural experience. It received special mention for the James Tiptree Jr. Award.

Fran Wilde is a science fiction and fantasy fiction author.Wilde's work has appeared in Uncanny Magazine, Beneath Ceaseless Skies, Tor.com, and Nature Magazine. Her first novel, "Updraft," was published in 2015.Wilde received a B.A. in English from the University of Virginia, an M.F.A. in Poetry from Warren Wilson College, and a master's degree in information architecture and interaction design from the University of Baltimore.

Kat Howard is an author who writes fantasy, science fiction, and horror.Howard has written books, novellas, and short fiction collections. She wrote the first 18 issues of the DC comic book The Books of Magic.

Lavie Tidhar is a writer and columnist for The Washington Post.Tidhar's novel "Osama" won the 2012 World Fantasy Award for Best Novel, and his novel "Central Station" won the 2017 John W. Campbell Memorial Award for Best Science Fiction Novel. His writing has also appeared in Additional bylines have appeared in The Independent, Nature, SFX, io9, and The Vanuatu Daily Post.Tidhar grew up in an Israeli Kibbutz. He began to travel extensively from the age of 15.

Madeline Ashby is an American-Canadian science fiction writer, best known for her novel Company Town, which was selected for the 2017 edition of Canada Reads.

Tim Lebbon is an author of horror and dark fantasy fiction.Lebbon's first novel, "Mesmer," was published in 1997. Since he has published over forty novels. His short story "Reconstructing Amy" won the 2001 Bram Stoker Award for Short Fiction. He has also won the British Fantasy Award and the Scribe Award.