Here Be Monsters Creators & Guests

Jeff Emtman is Host of Here Be Monsters, KCRW ​'s podcast about everything Jeff fears. He's an artist creating true stories about belief and fear.

Bethany Denton is the managing editor for Here Be Monsters Podcast.

Producer for This American Life

Caitlin H. Pierce is a freelance editor and audio producer. Previously, Pierce was a Senior Producer for Pitchfork, where she produced a weekly music show. Before that, she developed and produced the show "Hyper-Thetical" for Audible. She edited the New York Times podcast "The Argument" and The Barneys Podcast. She produced the series "What Were You Thinking?" and "Radio Rookies" for WNYC Radio.Pierce received her B.A. in Media Studies, Film/Video, and Sociocultural Anthropology, with a Minor in Spanish from Pitzer College.

Dr. Vicki Ferrini is a marine geologist. She specializes in bathymetry and uses sonar to take measurements of water depth.

Alex Greenfield is a film & television writer and producer.

Ahnjili ZhuParris is a data scientist at CHDR and creative coder.

Tina Piña Trachtenburg is also known as Mother Pigeon. She is a street performance artist, she arranges an art installation of hand made soft sculptures representing pigeons and other urban wildlife while she sits among them.

Martin Austwick is an independent producer, host, writer and composer who co-created Song by Song and Neutrinowatch and is most known for his work on Answer Me This!, The Allusionist, Maddie's Sound Explorers, and his music, writing and production for a wide range of podcasts and live podcast shows.

Allen H. Greenfield is an author.

James Dinneen is a writer, reporter and blogger.

Joel Balsam is a freelance journalist, editor, and content writer.

Mike Paros is an animal welfare specialist and professor of anthrozoology & agriculture at the Evergreen State College in Olympia, Washington.

Chloé Savard is a student in microbiology.

Lars Christian Kofoed Rømer is an anthropologist, writer, and the author of "Tales in an Underground Landscape."

Colby Richardson is a media artist and experimental filmmaker.

Jacob Lemanski is the owner of AntLife, a company that makes large ant farms.