neilaitken

I created and hosted The Lit Fantastic, an interview podcast about authors and their obsessions, which ran for two seasons of 10 episodes each. In addition to hosting and interviewing for the podcast, I've also interviewed writers for live radio and moderated panels for conferences and reading series. I am very comfortable behind the mic.

Outside of audio, I'm an award-winning author of two books of poetry and a poetry chapbook, as well as the editor of Boxcar Poetry Review. I'm currently preparing to launch a YouTube channel which combines my love of roleplaying games and writing to discuss techniques to improve game narration and on-the-fly descriptions (Fantastic Descriptions). I also work as a creative writing coach and freelance editor.

I'm interested in paid work to host, interview, or create content for all sorts of shows, but particularly those related to the following topics:
writing (especially poetry)
science fiction
artificial intelligence
computer games
role playing games (especially D&D)
literary translation
mixed race literature & experience
Asian American literature