Spirits Creators & Guests

Podcaster, Writer, Historian. co-host of Spirits Podcast. Community manager for The Whisper Forge. Actor and Sound Designer in too many audio fiction pods

Podcaster + businesslady. CEO of Multitude Shows.

Podcaster, video editor, and sound designer. He edits and regularly guest hosts Spirits, co-hosts Waystation, and is the editor for Beyond the Screenplay. He is also a founding member of the Multitude podcast collective.

Gretchen McCulloch is an internet linguist, bestselling author of Because Internet, a book about internet language.

Emily St. James (formerly Emily VanDerWerff) is a critic, journalist, podcaster, and writer. Currently, she is the Critic at Large for Vox. Prior to 2019, she published under her old name, Todd VanDerWerff.St. James started her career by working for the student newspaper while studying at South Dakota State University. In 2004, she graduated and began working for newspapers, writing and copy editing, while maintaining her TV blog. Later, she wrote for the A.V. Club, first as a freelance writer, and then as an editor.

5'1" of concentrated sass; writer/podcaster with too many projects

Eric Silver works as Head of Creative at the podcast collective Multitude. He currently co-hosts the podcast HORSE, occasional guest host on Spirits, and the dungeonmaster of Join the Party.

Podcast Critic and Journalist in the United States

A virtuoso of audio fiction. They are the sound designer of over a dozen immersive storytelling podcasts, including LeVar Burton Reads and The Bright Sessions, as well as co-founder & executive producer of The Whisperforge, a collective whose shows have a combined 3.5 million downloads to date despite being made in a literal closet.

Dr. Colleen Darnell is an American Egyptologist known for her Instagram account Vintage Egyptologist as well as a YouTube channel of the same name that she runs with her husband and fellow Egyptologist John Darnell. She has made numerous contributions and discoveries to the study of Egyptian history and has appeared in documentaries as an expert of the field.

Born and raised in Honolulu, Hawaii. Kamu is an Asian/Pacific Islander geek and storyteller.He began podcasting in 2004 with his three-hour weekly radio show/podcast "Off the Air's: Geek Nation". He was an invited professional panelist for conventions like the San Diego Comic-Con. Has lectured on film, television, comics, and Batman. He is an independent filmmaker who has worked extensively on big budget films, television projects, and streaming shows. He wrote the "I Didn't Mean to" series, and "Genre Analysis: The Gangster, The Evolved Detective, and The Dark Knight", which analyzes Batman. He is a magician member of the Magic Castle.His latest podcast "Legends from the Pacific" focuses on understanding Pacific cultures through their stories, traditions, and individuals.

Creator, host, and editor of Potterless. Co-host of HORSE. Still trying to figure out how to fold a fitted sheet.

Adal Rifai has been improvising in Chicago since 2007. He performs at iO with the house team Revolver, in the weekly show Whirled News Tonight (iO) and around the U.S. with Pudding-Thank-You and BagCat.

Australian writer who specializes in children's and young adult fantasy novels, notably the Old Kingdom, Seventh Tower and Keys to the Kingdom series.

Podcast production in front, TV production in back.

Caroline Crampton is a freelance writer, editor and podcaster, the UK correspondent for Hot Pod, the trade newsletter on the podcast industry. She produces the Shedunnit podcast and her first book, a work of narrative non-fiction about the Thames estuary, is out on 6 June 2019.

Vanessa Zoltan is a co-host of the podcast Harry Potter and the Sacred Text. She is also co-founder of Common Ground, a movement that believes reading, writing, walking, intention and ritual shapes our lives deeply.

Julia Turshen is the bestselling author of Feed the Resistance, which was named one of the Best Cookbooks of 2016 by The New York Times.