Host + Editor: Brad King
Brad King has spent his career telling stories and helping others tell theirs.
He started as a journalist. After earning his master’s from UC Berkeley’s Graduate School of Journalism, he joined Wired as a staff writer and multimedia editor, where the first version of this show began as a streaming audio program in 2000. He went on to be a senior producer and editor at MIT Technology Review, and his writing has appeared in Wired, Business 2.0, The Hollywood Reporter, and many others. He co-wrote Dungeons & Dreamers, a history of how computer games built global communities.
In Indianapolis, he founded The Geeky Press, a writing collective that grew to more than 800 members. From 2014 to 2018, The Geeky Press brought the city’s writers together through weekly workshops, retreats, readings, and anthologies, and gave them a place to find each other. The Downtown Writers Jam grew up alongside it.
As editorial director of Carnegie Mellon University’s ETC Press, he scaled the press from 15 to 45 titles a year and worked with more than 300 authors across four continents. He was also a founding editor of Play Story Press, an open-access publisher of research on games, technology, education, and society. At Carnegie Mellon University Libraries, he was managing editor for the university’s exhibits and publications.
Today he is Director of Integrated Project Management & Digital Transformation for University Communications and Marketing at the University of Pittsburgh. He is a member of PEN America and the Association of Writers & Writing Programs.
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Music
“Blues to Cooking,” by Ernesto Martin Lopez