2024 Speaker Series

Psi Upsilon is pleased to include among our living alumni two icons of the horror literature genre; author Brian Asman, Phi Delta ’03 (Mary Washington), and Pseudopod.org horror fiction podcast editor and host Alex Hofelich Gamma Tau ’98 (Georgia Tech) . Both are decorated with genre awards spanning over a decade. Join them to learn about their ongoing projects and more.

Brian Asman is a writer, actor, and director from San Diego, CA. He’s the author of Good Dogs and Man, Fuck this House (And Other Disasters), both forthcoming from Blackstone. His other books include I’m Not Even Supposed to Be Here Today from Eraserhead Press, Our Black Hearts Beat as One, Neo Arcana, Nunchuck City, Jailbroke, and Return of the Living Elves. He’s recently published short stories in Pulp Modern, American Cannibal, and Kelp, and comics in Tales of Horrorgasm.

A film he co-wrote and produced, A Haunting in Ravenwood, is available now on DVD and VOD. His short “Reel Trouble” won Best Short Film at Gen Con 2022 and Best Horror Short at the Indie Gathering.

Brian holds an MFA from UCR-Palm Desert. He’s represented by Dunham Literary, Inc.

Find him on social media (@thebrianasman) or his website http://www.brianasmanbooks.com.

Alex Hofelich is Co-Editor of Pseudopod, a weekly horror podcast magazine. It is part of the pro-paying Escape Artists network, which has been delivering weekly short fiction in multiple genres since 2005. He has been involved with PseudoPod since 2009 and became co-Editor in 2015. He edited the anthologies For Mortal Things Unsung and Georgia Gothic. He is currently serving as President of the Atlanta Chapter of the Horror Writers Association and is a regular host of their Southern Nightmare Reading Series. He is currently serving as the Jury Coordinator/Co-Chair of the Bram Stoker Awards. You can learn about Pseudopod and the other Escape Artists Podcasts at https://pseudopod.org/ Alex is a 2023-24 Psi Upsilon Social Impact Fellow for his work preserving, promoting, and presenting vintage horror stories and authors.

Join us for the Psi Upsilon Virtual Speaker Series, live online Tuesday June 11th, 6:00pm Eastern 


Speaker Series: Fireside Chat with Ed Marinaro, Chi ’71, American actor & NFL Hall of Famer

Live via ZOOM webinar: Register Here

Ed Marinaro, Chi ’71 (Cornell) is an American actor and former football running back who played in the National Football League (NFL) for the Minnesota Vikings. He played college football for the Cornell Big Red, where he was a unanimous All-American and won the Maxwell Award in 1971. Marinaro was inducted to the College Football Hall of Fame in 1991.
While at Cornell, Marinaro joined Psi Upsilon. He went on to play professional football for six seasons with the Minnesota Vikings, New York Jets and Seattle Seahawks, appearing in Super Bowl VIII and Super Bowl IX with the Vikings. He scored 13 touchdowns over his career. He holds four NCAA records: most rushes per game in a season (39.6 in 1971), career average carries per game (34.0, 1969–71), most rushing yards per game over an entire career (174.6, 1969–71), and earliest game reaching 1,000 rushing yards (5th, 1971).
After football, he got his first big acting break in the comedy series “Lavern and Shirley”. He is also known as a regular cast member of Hill Street Blues, playing Officer Joe Coffey for five seasons (1981–1986).
From 2010 to 2011, Marinaro starred in the football comedy series Blue Mountain State.
Marinaro is married to fitness expert Tracy York and has one son.

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