The Longest Shortest Time Creators & Guests

Andrea Silenzi is the new host of The Longest Shortest Time. On the show she tells the stories of kids and families while exploring her own journey towards becoming a parent.

Hillary Frank is the award-winning creator of The Longest Shortest Time, a Podcast about the surprises and absurdities of raising other humans.

Jackie Sojico is the Producer of The Longest Shortest Time Podcast.

Al Letson is a poet, playwright, performer, journalist, and radio & podcast host. He's the host of Reveal from the Center for Investigative Reporting and PRX.

Rose Eveleth is a producer, designer, and writer. Currently, they are the Executive Producer of the podcast network Flash Forward Presents. They host the podcast "Flash Forward Podcast."Previously, Evelyth was a columnist for WIRED, BBC Future, and Motherboard, the producer of the Story Collider podcast, the special media manager at Nautilus, the managing editor for LadyBits, an editor of all things animated at TED Education, and a contributing editor at Smart Planet. They also edited the Smart News blog at Smithsonian Magazine, and filled in for the Atlantic’s science editor.

Lauren Lapkus is an actress, comedian, impressionist, and podcaster.

Cathy Guisewite is a cartoonist, known for the comic strip "Cathy," which ran in newspapers for 34 years.

Charlie Harding is a Music journalist, co-hosts and producer of Switched On Pop, a podcast about how popular music works.

Sana Krasikov is an author. She also writes and edits for the NPR podcast "Rough Translation."Krasikov's stories have appeared in The New Yorker, The Atlantic, The Virginia Quarterly, Zoetrope, and other magazines, and have won prizes including an O.Henry and a National Magazine Award nomination. Her first book, "One More Year," was published in 2008 and received a National Book Foundation’s ‘5 under 35’ award and the Sami Rohr Prize for Jewish Literature. Her second book, "The Patriots," was published in 2017 and won the Prix du Premier prize in France for best new novel in translation.

Kiera Eve Butler is a journalist whose work focuses on how purveyors of disinformation target online communities of women. Currently, she is a Senior Editor at Mother Jones.Butler's work has appeared in Mother Jones, Medium, BuzzFeed, The Atlantic, Slate, Flipboard, RealClear Politics, Tampa Bay Times, AlterNet, Grist, and Reveal from The Center for Investigative Reporting. Her first book, "Raise: What 4-H Teaches 7 Million Kids—and How Its Lessons Could Change Food and Farming Forever," was published in 2014.

Esther Perel is a psychotherapist, advisor on sex & relationships, speaker, and author.

Bonnie Rochman is a journalist and author. Her first book, "The Gene Machine: How Genetic Technologies Are Changing the Way We Have Kids--and the Kids We Have," was published in 2017.Previously, Rochman was health and parenting columnist for TIME magazine. Her work has appeared in The New York Times Magazine, The Wall Street Journal, NBC News, Scientific American, and O, The Oprah Magazine.Rochman was a TIME intern, and has reported from the Middle East, Myanmar and Vietnam for the Boston Globe, the Jerusalem Report and Fortune. Prior to that, she was the parenting blogger for The News & Observer in Raleigh, N.C.

Anna Sale is the creator and host of Death, Sex & Money and the podcast from WNYC Studios about, the things we think about a lot & need to talk about more.

Terry Gross is the host and co-executive producer of Fresh Air, an interview-based radio show produced by WHYY-FM in Philadelphia and distributed throughout the United States by NPR.