# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/mur-lafferty
# Generated: 2026-08-12T21:57:07.745Z

schema: https://schema.org/Person
url: "https://fame.am/person/mur-lafferty"
name: "Mur Lafferty"
slug: "mur-lafferty"
description: "Mur Lafferty is an American podcaster and writer based in Durham, North Carolina. She was the editor and host of Escape Pod from 2010, when she took over from Serah Eley, until 2012, when she was replaced by Norm Sherman. She is also the host and creator of the podcast I Should Be Writing. Until July 2007, she was host and co-editor of Pseudopod. She was the editor-in-chief of the Escape Artists short fiction magazine Mothership Zeta until it went on hiatus in 2016."
tagline: "American podcaster and writer (born 1973)"
image: "https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:FilePath/Mur_Lafferty_at_RavenCon_04252026-6.jpg?width=1200"
gender: "female"
country:
  name: "United States"
  isoCode: "US"
category:
  name: "Writers"
  slug: "writers"
profileType:
  name: "Writer / Author"
  slug: "writer"
birthDate: "1973-07-25"
livingStatus: "LIVING"
scores:
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  momentum:             0
  historical:           5.685422666666667
  currentAttention:     0
  sourceConfidence:     60
  profileCompleteness:  90
  trendDirection:       "FALLING"
ranks:
  global:   null
  country:  null
  category: null
platforms:
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    url:       "https://x.com/mightymur"
    handle:    "mightymur"
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    url:       "https://www.instagram.com/mightymur2/"
    handle:    "mightymur2"
  - platform:  "TIKTOK"
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    handle:    "mightymur"
  - platform:  "TWITCH"
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    handle:    "mightymur"
  - platform:  "WEBSITE"
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sources:
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    title: "Mur Lafferty"
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    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
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    title: "Mur Lafferty"
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    title: "ムア・ラファティ"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
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    title: "Mur Lafferty"
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    title: "Mur Lafferty"
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# bio (long form, separated for readability)
bio: |
  Imported from discovery source: wikidata-dump