Host / Editor
Jeff Emtman
Jeff Emtman is an artist living in Seattle, Washington. He created Here Be Monsters in 2012 as a way to address his many fears. He also works on other projects, which live at jeffemtman.com
Emeritus
HBM used to be a part of KCRW. During that period, we received lots of help from:
Bethany Denton - HBM’s Managing Editor and producer (2015-2020)
Episodes produced by BethanyNick White - Editor at KCRW (2015-2018)
Kristen Lepore - Editor at KCRW (2018 - 2020)
Guest Producers
Erica Heilman is the producer of a podcast called Rumble Strip. She lives in central Vermont with her son Henry.
Taylor Hosking is a freelance culture reporter based in New York City. Her work usually revolves around Black and LGBTQ social movements. And outside of podcast producing, she also writes articles for places like The Atlantic, VICE, The Washington Post and Afropunk.
Episodes produced by Taylor
Jesse Brenneman is an audio producer and musician from Montana who, after a decade in New York, is back in Montana figuring it all out.
Eric Molinsky is the host of the podcast Imaginary Worlds. He's produced stories for Studio 360, The New Yorker Radio Hour, 99% Invisible, Marketplace, Unfictional, NPR and WNYC's Morning Edition and All Things Considered.
Colleen Leahy is an independent radio producer based in Washington D.C. Her work has appeared on WBUR, NPR, and the podcast Sidewalks. She loves reading and taking naps. Check out her work here.
Bridget Burnquist is an American traveler, writer, and radio producer.
Emile B. Klein is a producer working in audio and visual. He has been featured by the New York Times, NPR, Vice, PBS, and USA Today. He tours the America on his bike, painting portraits of the people he meets for You're US.
Barry Lam is the host and producer of Hi-Phi Nation, a story-driven philosophy podcast. He is a philosophy professor at Vassar College.
John Summerson is an animator and filmmaker living in Portland, Oregon. John is also a volunteer teacher, an avid musician, a middling pinball player, and an enthusiastically amateur fisherman.
Shoppingspree Clark is a musician and artist. He is one half of a metal-noise-pop duo called Fake Sick.
Luke Eldridge is an independent radio producer and documentary maker from the UK.
Molly Segal is an independent producer based in Canada’s Rocky Mountains, producing radio documentaries for various CBC programs.
Lina Misitzis has appeared on NPR, various podcasts, and her father's Facebook page. She lives in Brooklyn, New York with her hairless cat named Varys and is a producer for This American Life
James Dinneen is a writer and audio producer based in Brooklyn.
Ula Kulpa is an audio producer and amateur historian based in New York. She is one half of Going Forward, and a producer at Prologue Projects.
Bec Fary is an independent audio producer from Melbourne, Australia. She produces SleepTalker, the podcast about sleep, dreams, nightmares and what happens in your head after dark.
Lisa Cantrell is the producer of An InExact Science and her work has been heard on KALW’s Crosscurrents. She tells people she’s allergic to cats—a claim that is highly disputed and still under investigation.
Christopher Mosson is an independent radio producer based in San Francisco. He works with The Kitchen Sisters assisting with production and research. He's the former director of Rhino's Youth Center, where he spearheaded Indiana's first and only teen LGBT+ public affairs radio program.
Garrett Tiedemann is a radio producer, journalist, filmmaker and composer living in Minnesota. From his docking point of CyNar Pictures he produces film and music as well as The White Whale podcast.
Alessandra Canario is a dealer in vintage and antique clothing based in New jersey.
Julia Drachman is one half of Going Forward, a monthly podcast about problem solving of all kinds - when it works, when it doesn't, and when the solution doesn't even exist yet.
Alex Kime is a writer and sound engineer based in Chicago, Illinois.
Anna Klein is an aspiring festival producer from Scandinavia.
Lee Gaines is a public radio reporter in Illinois covering marijuana, criminal justice reform, social justice issues, education, and Chicago's art and music scene.
Caitlin Pierce is an independent radio producer based in New York City. She produces a podcast about people who break boundaries called Borders Radio.
Marlo Mack writes about raising her transgender daughter on her blog, Gender Mom. With her daughter's help, she produces a podcast about their life together called "How to Be a Girl".
Lauren Stelling is a photographer and videographer based out of Seattle, Washington. In her spare time she enjoys hiking, cooking, collecting rocks, and playing with her scruffy-faced mystery mutt, Otter. She is most inspired by the creative people who surround her everyday life.