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Podcaster
Colleen Leahy is a Midwestern radio producer and lifelong bookworm. She has worked for WBUR's Here & Now, NPR and KCRW's Here Be Monsters. For the first 25 years of her life, she harbored absolutely no desire to read "Infinite Jest" and never seriously entertained the thought of doing so. Her favorite authors are Anne Carson, Virginia Woolf, Vladimir Nabokov and Elena Ferrante.