David Barr KirtleyDavid Barr Kirtley is the host of the Geek's Guide to the Galaxy podcast on Wired.com, for which he's interviewed over 400 guests, including Neil Gaiman, George R. R. Martin, Margaret Atwood, Richard Dawkins, Wil Wheaton, Bill Nye, Joyce Carol Oates,Neil deGrasse Tyson, and Ursula K. Le Guin. His short fiction appears in magazines such as Realms of Fantasy, Weird Tales, Lightspeed, and Intergalactic Medicine Show, on podcasts such as Escape Pod and Pseudopod, and in books such as The Living Dead, New Cthulhu, The Way of the Wizard, and The Dragon Done It. His story "Save Me Plz" was picked by editor Rich Horton for the 2008 edition of the anthology series Fantasy: The Best of the Year. His book Save Me Plz and Other Stories collects 20 of his best stories, along with 13 illustrations and more than 40 pages of author's notes explaining how the stories came to be written and published. He lives in Austin with his cat Oryx and his girlfriend Steph Grossman. Read More Read Less