Ron Garmon is an American journalist, rock critic, and short story writer who served as Arts Editor for L.A. CityBeat during its last year of publication, 2007 to 2008.

Garmon's cover stories followed L.A.'s underground music scene, bringing to light the trashing of the iconic Morrison Hotel, and investigating the fate of long-vanished cult movie director Tom Graeff.

[9] Garmon and fellow science fiction writer Brad Linaweaver were 2002 nominees for the Rondo Hatton Classic Horror Award for one of their "Left Brain/Right Brain" features in Cult Movies Magazine.

[11] In 1999, Garmon and ex-Scarlet Street publisher Jessie Lilley founded Worldly Remains: A Pop Culture Review,[12] which ran eight issues before folding in 2004.

Popular culture icons such as Michael Parks, Ivan Dixon, Frankie Smith, Robert Quarry, Keith Morris, Gloria Hendry, and John Quade gave uncensored interviews.