Connor Goldsmith is a literary agent, writer, and podcaster. As a Senior Agent at Fuse Literary, he represents a select list of nonfiction and genre fiction titles.

Born and raised in New York, Connor studied English and the Classics at Oberlin College and received a Master’s Degree in Media Studies from The New School. He began his career in publishing in 2012.

His first comic book is forthcoming from Dark Horse.

In 2020, Connor launched the independent podcast CEREBRO, a character-by-character exploration of Marvel’s X-Men franchise. CEREBRO was named one of Entertainment Weekly’s 10 best podcasts of 2021, and hailed that year by Ezra Klein as one of his favorite podcasts. In 2022, Connor and his work on CEREBRO were profiled in The New York Times. By 2024, the podcast had achieved 3 million downloads.

Connor’s monthly pop culture podcast with writer and style icon Jordan Blok, The Kibitz, is hosted exclusively on Patreon. He is developing another podcast: Single Female Lawyer, about the 90s dramedy sensation Ally McBeal, co-hosted by culture journalist Alex Abad-Santos.

Connor is based in Los Angeles and New York.