The Witch Trials of J.K. Rowling Creators & Guests

Megan Phelps-Roper is a former member of the Westboro Baptist Church (WBC). She left the church with her sister Grace in November 2012. Her mother is Shirley Phelps-Roper, whose father was the church's founder Fred Phelps. She now lobbies to overcome divisions and hatred between religious and political divides.

Audio production lead & music at Gimlet Media now Spotify. I write music and play bass in Edwin.

Andy Mills is a former producer and reporter with The New York Times, and helped create their podcast The Daily.

Charles "Chip" McGrath is an American journalist and editor who writes for the New York Times. He is a former writer and editor for The New Yorker and a former editor of The New York Times Book Review.

Stacy Madeleine Schiff is an American former editor, essayist, and author of five biographies. Her biography of Vera Nabokov won the 2000 Pulitzer Prize in biography.

Kat Rosenfield is a writer, illustrator, advice columnist, entertainment journalist, zombie enthusiast, author of two YA novels, and co-author of the book, "A Trick of Light: Stan Lee's Alliances."

Michelle Goldberg is a senior correspondent for The American Prospect and a columnist for The Daily Beast, Slate, and The New York Times. She is a former senior writer for The Nation magazine and Salon.com. She is the author of "Kingdom Coming: The Rise of Christian Nationalism" (2006), and "The Means of Reproduction: Sex, Power, and the Future of the World" (2009).

Jaron Lanier is an American computer philosophy writer, computer scientist, visual artist, and composer of classical music.

J. K. Rowling is a British author and philanthropist. She wrote Harry Potter, a seven-volume children's fantasy series published from 1997 to 2007.

Helen Lewis is a journalist, former deputy editor of the New Statesman, writer, and author of the book Difficult Women.