Hello! Thanks for stopping by.

My name is Amanda McGowan, I'm a writer and audio producer living in San Diego.

You can currently find me over at the Atlas Obscura podcast, where I'm a producer and occasional host.

If you click around the home page you can find some of my favorite recent stories.

Before that I was a news radio producer in Boston and worked for The World and Boston Public Radio. I also wrote for the GBH News website about topics such as very cold sea turtles, a crew of teenage mural painters, snowy owls stuck at the airport, speaking Russian competitively, and tree-loving citizen scientists.

I like to paint, knit, embroider, and do other sorts of arts and crafts (current fixation: beads.)