Liz Williams: podcast appearances and interviews

Liz Williams, born in 1965, is a British science fiction writer, historian, and occultist. She is known for her novels including The Ghost Sister, her first published work in 2001, and Empire of Bones, which followed in 2002; both titles were nominated for the Philip K. Dick Award. Williams is also the author of the Inspector Chen series. She is the daughter of a stage magician and a Gothic novelist and holds a PhD in Philosophy of Science from Cambridge University, where her supervisor was Peter Lipton. Her short stories have appeared in publications such as Asimov's, Interzone, The Third Alternative, and Visionary Tongue. Between the mid-1990s and 2000, she lived and worked in Kazakhstan, an experience that inspired her 2003 novel Nine Layers of Sky, which reimagines the legendary Bogatyr Ilya Muromets and Manas, the hero of the Epic of Manas, in a modern context. Her novels have been published internationally, with The Poison Master appearing in Dutch translation. Williams practices modern Druidry and co-owns a pagan and esoteric store in Glastonbury. In 2020, she published Miracles of Our Own Making, a popular history book about modern paganism in the United Kingdom.