Shawn Garrett: Co-Editor

Shawn M. Garrett is the co-editor of PSEUDOPOD and either the dumbest smart man or the smartest dumb man you ever met. Thanks to a youth spent in the company of Richard Matheson, Vincent Price, Carl Kolchak & Jupiter Jones, he has pursued a life-long interest in the thrilling, the horrific and the mysterious – be it in print, film, art or audio. He has worked as a sewerage groundskeeper, audio transcription editor, pornography enabler, insurance letter writer – he was once paid by Marvel Comics to pastiche the voice of Stan Lee in promotional materials and he spends his days converting old pulp fiction into digital form for minimal pay. He now lives near the ocean in a small metal box and he hopes that becoming a Yuggothian brain-in-a-jar is a viable future, as there is NO WAY he will ever read all the books he has on his lists, or listen to all the music he wants to hear. Everything that he is he owes to his late sister Susan, a shining star in the pre-internet world of fan-fiction, who left this world unexpectedly in 2010. Shawn was brought on as an Associate Editor in 2008, and he became Editor in 2011.

Alex Hofelich, Co-Editor

Alex Hofelich is Co-Editor of Pseudopod and pictured here at Trader Vic’s Atlanta. You can find him at tiki bars, local bookstores, microbreweries, and family-owned eateries. Like most tigers, Alex is made up of dragonflies and katydids, but mostly chewed-up little kids. Alex started assisting PseudoPod in 2009, and was brought on as an Associate Editor in 2011. He became Assistant Editor in 2013, and joined Shawn Garrett as co-Editor in 2015. He is currently serving as the Jury Coordinator as Co-Chair of the Bram Stoker Awards and as Co-Chair of the Atlanta Chapter of the Horror Writers Association.

Alasdair Stuart, Host (he/him)

Alasdair Stuart is a professional enthusiast, pop culture analyst, writer and voice actor. He co-owns the Escape Artists podcasts and co-hosts both Escape Pod and PseudoPod.

Alasdair is an Audioverse Award winner, a multiple award finalist including the Hugo, the Ignyte, and the BFA, and has won the Karl Edward Wagner award twice. He writes the multiple-award nominated weekly pop culture newsletter THE FULL LID.

Alasdair’s latest non-fiction is Through the Valley of Shadows, a deep-dive into the origins of Star Trek’s Captain Pike from Obverse Books. His game writing includes ENie-nominated work on the Doctor Who RPG and After The War from Genesis of Legend.

A frequent podcast guest, Alasdair also co-hosts Caring Into the Void with Brock Wilbur and Jordan Shiveley. His voice acting credits include the multiple-award winning The Magnus Archives, The Secret of St. Kilda, and many more.

Visit alasdairstuart.com for all the places he blogs, writes, streams, acts, and tweets.

Alasdair joined the PseudoPod team as the host of episode 048 in 2007. He liked it so much he later bought the company.

Kat Day, Deputy Editor

Kat Day is a PhD chemist who was once a teacher and is now a professional editor and writer. She first entered PseudoPod Towers in 2019, became Assistant Editor in 2021 and Deputy Editor in 2025. The best place to find her is on Bluesky, @chronicleflask.katday.com, and you can read her regular flash fiction offerings at thefictionphial.wordpress.com

Scott Campbell, Assistant Editor

Scott Campbell searches for battles that will increase his skills for the battles to come.  The slush pile underneath Pseudopod Towers is a worthy opponent.  He also writes, directs, and performs for the queer (in every sense of the word) cabaret The Mickee Faust Club.  He also write far too infrequently at the official online home of the Sleep Deprivation Institute (and pop culture website) Needcoffee.com.  He lives in Florida with absolutely no pets. Scott joined the team in 2016, become Web Wrangler in 2021, and promoted to Assistant Editor in 2022.

Joshua Tuttle, Assistant Editor

Josh is an academic who studies “Spooky Literature,” considered broadly. He has a few creative publication credits and has worked for several little magazines, but these days he primarily writes academic essays and books, which makes being within tentacle-reach of Pseudopod Towers very important to him. His research skills become most relevant every January when it’s time to track down Public Domain Showcase stories. He primarily studies 18 th -century Gothic fiction, but has heard that there was good work published after 1800 too—one day his reading will catch up and he’ll find out. (Currently he’s somewhere in 1788, but is graining rapidly on 1790. Radcliffe, here we come!) Reach out to him if you’d like to see his syllabus for Gothic Novel or Weird Fiction
college classes. Listeners of Pseudopod might find his essay “Dancing in the Ruins: Toward an Affect-Narratology of the Spooky” of interest. His first scholarly monograph, Excavating the Castle, will be published in the Anthem Studies in Gothic Literature series in 2026.  Joshua joined the team in 2020, and promoted to Assistant Editor in 2025.

Chelsea Davis, Audio Producer and Associate Editor

Chelsea Davis is a writer and critic from San Francisco. Her fiction, essays, and poetry have appeared in Vastarien, Reactor, the San Francisco Chronicle, and the Los Angeles Review of Books, among other publications. She is the audio producer for PseudoPod. You can read and listen to more of her work on her website, chelseamdavis.net. Chelsea joined the PseudoPod team as an Associate Editor in 2015 and an Audio Producer in 2016.

M. M. Schill, Social Media Manager and Associate Editor

Brian Lieberman, Community Manager and Associate Editor

Brian Lieberman is the PseudoPod Community Manager and erstwhile associate editor. By day, he’s practicing the ancient art of development at a small marketing agency. By night, he parties up with his friends to slay demons and other baddies. He lives in Columbia, Maryland with his wife and a pair of adorable rats. Brian joined the PseudoPod team as Community Manager in 2007, He served as an Associate Editor from 2012 to 2019 and rejoined the reading crew in 2023.

Meghan Ball, Associate Editor

Meghan Ball (she/her) is a writer and editor whose work has appeared at Tor.com, Tor Nightfire, the Barnes & Noble Sci-Fi and Fantasy Blog, io9.com, Uncanny Magazine, and Fireside Fiction. She has also appeared on several podcasts including co-hosting Caring Into The Void and edited the successfully Kickstarter-funded 1, 2, 3 Action! role playing game. When not writing, she listens to an unhealthy amount of music, plays guitar, rolls terribly in D&D, and does cross stitch. You can find her on twitter @eldritchgirl and discover more of her work at her website eldritchwrites.com. She lives in a weird part of New Jersey.  She joined the team in 2021.

Carson Ash Beker, Associate Editor

Carson Beker/ Ash (they/them) is a hybrid storyteller, experience creator, and ghost cat fighting the apocalypse, co-founder of The Escapery Pirate Art Collective and Queer Cat Productions Theater Company. Their stories are upcoming or found in Joyland, Fairy Tale Review, Spunk, Foglifter, Gigantic Sequins, and on ships and in cemeteries and on stages. They are proud to be a Lambda writer and graduate of Clarion West 2018. They can be found at CarsonBeker.com; QueerCatProductions.com, at Escapery.org. They are most definitely haunted. They were part of the team from 2019 to 2021 and returned in 2023.

Steph P. Bianchini, Associate Editor

Steph P. Bianchinilives in Scotland after (regretfully) relocating from East Asia. They are a scientist and an academic by professional practice and a historian by education. They blog about the space sector, speculative fiction, and Japanese manga at The Earthian Hivemind (earthianhivemind.net) and edit the ezine “Frozen Wavelets” (https://frozenwavelets.com/) of speculative flash fiction and poetry.  As a fiction writer, Steph is a member of SFWA and HWA, writing under the byline Russell Hemmell. Their short stories and poetry have appeared in various publications, including Aurealis, Cast of Wonders, Flame Tree Press, The Grievous Angel, and others. They joined the team in 2020.

Shawna Borman, Associate Editor

Shawna Borman graduated magna cum laude from Southern Methodist University in 2012 with a B.A. in English specializing in Creative Writing. During her time at SMU, she won second place in the school’s annual fiction contest, as well as the Margaret Terry Crooks Award for Most Outstanding Creative Writing Student. She earned an M.F.A. in Creative Writing, specializing in popular fiction, from the University of Southern Maine’s Stonecoast program in January 2015. Though she dabbles in all genres, her true love is horror. Whether dealing with your average socially awkward serial killer or an angel/demon/mortal hybrid entering the terrible teens, Shawna is most at ease visiting with the voices in her head. She resides in Texas with her father. She joined as an Associate Editor in 2017.

Tad Callin, Associate Editor

Tad Callin has been a lot of things, but he is most proud of being a father and writer. His previous published work includes an urban fantasy story, “Silver,” published on the Dunesteef Audio Fiction Magazine podcast, and his self—published memoir, Tad’s Happy Funtime. One day, he hopes to return to the desert Southwest with his family, but for now, he enjoys living in Baltimore.  He was an Associate Editor from 2016 to 2020 and rejoins the team in 2023.

Cecilia Dockins, Associate Editor

Cecilia Dockins resides near Nashville, Tennessee. Over the years, she has slung cocktails in bars, instruments in surgical suites, ink on paper, and possibly a curse word or two. She’s an Odyssey Writing Workshop graduate and former University of Maine: Stonecoast student, a failed academic, loner, dreamer, damn-good angler, and professional book hoarder. Cecilia started with PseudoPod in 2017, took a short break and rejoined the team in 2021. She served as one of the guest editors for Artemis Rising 6 for March 2019.

Alexis Dubon, Associate Editor

Alexis Dubon is a work of fiction. Any resemblance to actual persons, living or dead, is purely coincidental. She is the author of Nineteen Little Stab Wounds (a microfiction chapbook) and co-editor of No Trouble at All (Cursed Morsels Press, 2023). You can find her short fiction in Southwest Review and Cosmic Horror Monthly, or in Why Didn’t You Just Leave, but she has no social media or website, so you probably won’t ever find Alexis herself.

Adrian Howard, Associate Editor

Adrian Howard helps teams get better at delivering software products for a living. People don’t pay him to write bad fiction or run silly interactive micro-fiction experiments (but he does it anyway). Adrian spends his day vacillating wildly between Impostor Syndrome & the Dunning-Kruger effect while tweeting about drinking coffee. No matter how much he cries, no matter how much he begs, never feed him after midnight. Adrian joined the team in 2015.

Cyan Katz, Associate Editor

Cyan Katz (they.them) is an old QTPOC punk who writes body horror and goes to bed early these days. Recently, they’ve been published in Weird Horror, and the anthology 120 Murders. They live in Berlin, Germany, teach Pilates, and are a somatics guide for trauma recovery. You can find them on BlueSky @/cyankatz.bsky.social or Instagram @the_illuminated_ body.

Klarissa Kronschnabel, Associate Editor

Klarissa Kronschnabel (she/her) is a writer from the red clay of Raleigh, NC. Her work has previously appeared in Furrow and Platform Magazine. When not reading or drafting, she delights in dressing like a haunted doll and capitulating to the whims of long-haired cats. Klarissa believes that there is nothing lovelier or more horrifying than embodiment, though sunflower sea stars come pretty close. She joined the team in 2024.

T.M. Morgan, Associate Editor

T.M. Morgan lives in Southern Maryland along the Chesapeake Bay with his wife and children. A longtime IT project manager for nonprofits, wandering traveler, and musician (a year playing jazz bass at Berklee School of Music), he has also been writing horror and dark fantasy off and on for twenty years (though only started to take it seriously recently). You can read his stories in Lamplight, Vastarien, Penumbric, and in a number of anthologies, including the upcoming Tales From Omnipark.  He joined the team in 2020.

Christi Nogle, Associate Editor

Christi Nogle is a longtime college composition teacher who lives in Boise, Idaho with her partner Jim and their dogs and cat. You can listen to more of her stories at Escape Pod, Tales to Terrify, and The Wicked Library–or read her most recent stories in the literary journals Vastarien and Hermine Annual.  Christi  joined the team in 2020.

Kitty Sarkozy, Associate Editor

Kitty Sarkozy is a speculative fiction writer, actor and robot girlfriend. Kitty is an alumnus of Superstars Writing Seminar , a member of the Apex Writers Group, and the Horror Writer’s Association. Several large cats allow her to live with them in Marietta GA, She enjoys tending the extensive gardens, where she hides the bodies. For a list of her publications, acting credits or to engage her services on your next project go to kittysarkozy.com.  Kitty joined the team in 2018.

Jess Whitecroft, Associate Editor

Veteran romance writer Jess Whitecroft moonlighted into writing horror when she moved to a haunted location and discovered that none of the alleged ghosts did any haunting, and that she would have to supply her own. A rank amateur at the art of self-description, she outsourced her author biography to her nearest and dearest, who said, “Great cook, but sometimes eats crisps in bed.” Jess joined the team in 2025.

Everett Miller, Editorial Intern 

Everett Miller is a student at Penn State studying English Literature with a focus on horror, the gothic, and folktales. He spends most of his free time writing short stories and for his D&D game or listening to music. He intends to begin the process of applying to graduate schools to see where he’ll end up for the next chunk of his life. But, for now, he’s mostly found shuffling about in the stacks of Penn State’s Library like an overworked ghoul. He joined the team in 2023.