• Escape Pod: Finalist for the 2020 Best Semiprozine Hugo Award
• Ditch Diggers: WINNER of the 2018 Best Fancast Hugo Award
• Six Wakes: Finalist for the 2018 Hugo, Nebula, and Philip K. Dick Awards 
• Escape Pod: Finalist for the 2018 Best Semiprozine Hugo Award
• Mur Lafferty: Winner of the Astounding Award for Best New Writer
  
• 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

“…one of the worst-kept secrets in science fiction and fantasy publishing.” – Cory Doctorow via BoingBoing

Welcome to Mur Lafferty’s ever-changing website where you can find books, podcasts,  nonfiction, and various and sundry other things.

Latest: Solo: A Star Wars Story 

Don’t miss the exclusive content in this thrilling adaptation of Solo: A Star Wars Story, with scenes from alternate versions of the script including Han Solo’s time in the Imperial Navy, Qi’ra’s past, the beginnings of the rebellion, and more!

My books are available in stores, online retailers, and through this site. Check out Solo: A Star Wars Story for the details that you wanted expanded from the movie, and check out I Should Be Writing if you need a supportive writing workshop in the form of a book.

In 2017 I released Six Wakes, a clone murder mystery in space that nominated for the 2018 Hugo, Nebula, and Philip K. Dick Awards, and Bookburners, a collaboration effort about a group of demon hunters for the Vatican. Bookburners continues through five total seasons, available at Serial Box.

The Shambling Guide to New York City won the 2014 Manly Wade Wellman Award, and I was lucky enough that its sequel, Ghost Train to New Orleans, won the 2015 Manly Wade Wellman Award! More info about my books here.

I’ve been a podcaster since December, 2004, and since then I’ve won the Podcast Peer Award, three Parsec Awards, and in 2015 I was inducted into the Podcaster Hall of Fame. My show Ditch Diggers (with Matt Wallace) won the 2018 Hugo Award for Best Fancast. My longest running show is I Should Be Writing (14 years strong as of August 2019!)

I’ve been the editor of Pseudopod, Mothership Zeta, and am currently the co-editor of Hugo Finalist Semiprozine Escape Pod (with S.B. Divya).

Other Sundries:

My nonfiction essays have appeared in Knights of the Dinner Table, and on the podcast The Dragon Page.

I live in Durham, NC, with my husband and teen daughter.

In January, 2014, I graduated from the Stonecoast program at the University of Southern Maine with an MFA in popular fiction.

The best way to contact me is via email – mightymur AT gmail, and I will do all I can to get back to you, but I can’t promise a quick turnaround. I am most social-networkingly connected at Twitter (@mightymur), and am not on Facebook because it’s evil.