Russell Stagg

Russell Stagg has a Ph.D. in astronomy, and was a freelance writer and the director of the Trackman Planetarium in Joliet, Illinois from 2003 to 2005. He currently works as a psychotherapist and lives with his wife, Lynn, and their cat, Gracie, in Saint John, New Brunswick, Canada. They are “between dogs,” and the character of Sirius is based on a much-loved Bichon Shi Tzu Poodle named Daisy, who died in 2017.