In part eight of my twelve-part series, Better Know a Beard, we meet a contender who sets herself apart from the rest in two ways:

1. She does not possess a Y-chromosome.
2. She is arguably better at not growing a beard than any other participant in How Not to Grow a Beard Month.

Mur Lafferty is responsible for approximately 22.7% of all content currently available on the Internet.¹ Most of this content is available at The Murverse, but here are a few that ought to be singled out:

• I Should Be Writing is a podcast "for wannabe writers, by a wannabe writer", though Mur could hardly be called a "wannabe" anymore. Her superhero novel, Playing For Keeps, was published in 2008.
• Heaven is a free, multi-season audiobook that begins with the death of two friends, Kate and Daniel, and follows them through the afterlife.
• What happens with a company that provides zombies as temporary employees merges with a local web company? Find out in The Takeover.
• Geek Fu Action Grip is, alas, on indefinite hiatus, but that shouldn't stop you from listening to Mur's geeky essays.

Mur lives in North Carolina² with her husband, daughter and little brown dog.

¹Very approximately.

²If you're keeping count, that's three beards (or not beards) from North Carolina. So far.