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EscapePod, episode9 The Many Burths of Karina Morita by Tim Pratt. Hello and welcome to EscapePod, your weekly science fiction podcast.

I'm your host this week, Tina Connolly, and I am here to bring you the many rebirths of Karina Marita by Tim Pratt.

This story first appeared on her Patreon.

Tim Melody Pratt is a gender fluid, Hugo award-winning, S.F. and fantasy author and editor,

and has been a finalist for World Fantasy, Philip K. Dick, Sturgeon, Stoker, Mythopeic, and Nebula Awards, among others.

Pratt's short fiction and poetry have appeared in the Best American Short Stories,

the Best American Erotica, Uncanny, Asimovs, and Clarks World,

and she is the author of over 30 novels.

Your narrator this week is Isabel J. Kim.

Isabel J. Kim is a Korean-American speculative fiction writer based in New York City.

She is a Shirley Jackson Award winner, a Hugo, Nebula, and astounding award finalist,

and her short fiction has been published in Clark's World, Light Speed, and Strange Horizons, among other venues.

Her work has been reprinted in the Best American Science Fiction and Fantasy

2023 and 2024, and translated into Chinese and Japanese.

When she's not writing, she's either practicing law or co-hosting her internet culture podcast,

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