Karin Murray-Bergquist

Karin Murray-Bergquist is a writer, actor, artist, and PhD student in Folklore. Their work has appeared in Augur Magazine, Lighthouse Digest, Metapsychosis, Queer Sci-Fi anthologies, Engen Books’ anthology Acceptance: Stories at the Centre of Us, and Air and Nothingness Press anthologies. A constantly restless individual, Karin is always searching for new avenues of storytelling and ways to combine research and the arts.

Karin’s travel poetry can be found in the digital travel map Terra Precognita, a compilation of poems and illustrations. A wearer of many hats, in 2020 they began a YouTube channel titled Chapeauetry, for readings of favourite poems while wearing a series of hats and fascinators of varying degrees of elaborateness. Karin’s ongoing study of maritime ghost stories in Newfoundland and Labrador has led to the Ghost Ship Map, available at https://maphub.net/KarinMB/ghost-ships-of-newfoundland-and-labrador, and the digital storytelling map, This Spectred Isle, available at https://maphub.net/KarinMB/map.

As one half of the Practical Fantasists creative team, Karin co-edited and contributed to the speculative fiction collection A Compendium of Enigmatic Species, a co-production with author and scientist Mary Thaler. Between 2020 and 2021, Karin co-wrote, co-produced, edited, and performed in the medieval comedy fantasy radio play Corentin in Quarantine, available at https://practicalfantasists.podbean.com.

Find more about Karin’s creative work at https://practicalfantasists.com or listen to ocean podcast The Deeps at https://thedeeps.podbean.com.