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Brief Bio:

STEPHANIE NINA PITSIRILOS (To Love Like Venus, Event Horizon: Stories of No Turning Back) is a critically acclaimed prose and comics writer. She is the recipient of the 2022 Chautauqua Janus Prize for her story “Jean” and her debut novel, To Love Like Venus, is a 2026 Kirkus Prize nominee. Her works span from literary novels, collections, zines, and artists’ books, always bending spacetime. Stephanie is a Manhattanite of Nuyorico, with a heart that sails the Aegean sea.

Short Bio:

Stephanie Nina Pitsirilos (To Love Like Venus, Event Horizon: Stories of No Turning Back) is a critically acclaimed writer with works also in numerous prose and comics anthologies. Accolades for her work include: Kirkus Reviews; The Chautauqua Institution; Publishers Weekly; Kore Press; Broken Pencil Magazine; Canzine; and AWP. Her 2024 debut short story collection Event Horizon: Stories of No Turning Back received glowing reviews, her debut novel To Love Like Venus is a 2026 Kirkus Prize nominee, and she’s the recipient of the 2022 Chautauqua Janus Prize for her story “Jean,” called “masterful” by Publishers Weekly. Her stories reside also in the crudely folded and handsewn pages of zines and elegantly tucked inside perfumed silk clutches as artists’ books. She creates visual art as ANDROMEDA. Stephanie is a Manhattanite of Nuyorico, with a heart that sails the Aegean sea.

She’s been featured most recently at Brooklyn Book Festival, NYU’s Latinx Project print fair, Latinx Visions 2.0 (U of New Mexico), PBS Kids Alma’s Way, and previously at New York Comic Con. To Love Like Venus is her debut novel.

Long Bio:

STEPHANIE NINA PITSIRILOS (To Love Like Venus, Event Horizon: Stories of No Turning Back) is a critically acclaimed prose and comics writer. She is the recipient of the 2022 Chautauqua Janus Prize for her story “Jean” and accolades for her work include Kirkus Reviews, Publishers Weekly, Kore Press, Broken Pencil Magazine, and Canzine2021. Featured at the 2021 AWP Conference & Bookfair as a new voice “transforming the genres” of science fiction and fantasy, Professor Latinx noted her work as “revitalizing the short comic form”. To rave reviews she published Event Horizon: Stories of No Turning Back, her genre-bending, multi-medium debut short story collection and multi-artist collaboration (Janus Point Press, 2024) with a stellar preorder campaign on Kickstarter, highlighting her range of collaboration with celebrated artists. Her debut novel To Love Like Venus is a 2026 Kirkus Prize nominee. Her creative mediums are prose, comics, graphic novels, and zines. She’s a Kickstarter superstar, always earning a coveted “Project We Love.”

As a novelist she writes literary fiction, though ask her and she’ll say she writes comic book realism. Many of her works have been for benefits including: #GetUsPPE; INSIDER ART: Female & Non-Binary Comic Book Retailer Fund; and the Book Industry Charitable Foundation. She’s the creator of Zine100, a public health benefit zine she successfully funded on Kickstarter. Stephanie is the founder of the Lydia Garcia Author Fund at The Center for Puerto Rican Studies at Hunter College (2025). In 2022 she launched Janus Point Press, an imprint with her selected works and a boutique publisher to artist commissioned pieces, artists’ books and print collections. She creates art also as ANDROMEDA, an interplay of her visual, literary and performing arts passion. Stephanie’s a Manhattanite of Nuyorico, with a heart that sails the Aegean sea.

Other fun facts: Stephanie’s family roots are in the waters of El Fanguito Santurce Puerto Rico and the Epirot mountains of Greece, prominent themes of her works. She’s reviewed comics submissions for CEX Publishing, and she’s currently a board member of Graphic Mundi (imprint of Penn State University Press) where she reviews graphic novel submissions. She holds degrees from the University of Michigan (including a year with College Year in Athens, Greece) and Columbia University (MPH). She began working in field epidemiology and refugee health in New York City and Greece, respectively, followed by an accomplished career in population and family health. Public health informs her writing of speculative futures: looking at pasts, presents and systems to understand how to get somewhere new. Kweli writing workshops have kept her sharp. She also enjoyed an off-label, almost decade long career as volunteer librarian fill-in for a public elementary school as Mrs. Peanut Butter. She’s a mom to Amazons.

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Books, magazines and organizations with her work include: The Speculative Detective Agency (Diversion Books, Fall 2026); To Love Like Venus (Janus Point Press, 2026); From Cocinas to Lucha Libre Ringsides (Ohio State University Press, 2025); Not Your Papi’s Utopia: Latinx Visions of Radical Hope (Mouthfeel Press, 2025); Event Horizon: Stories of No Turning Back (Janus Point Press, 2024); J ean, Janus & Comic Book Realism (Janus Point Press, 2023); The Funeral Singer (Janus Point Press 2022); Speculative Fiction for Dreamers: A Latinx Anthology (Mad Creek, 2021); COVID CHRONICLES: A Comics Anthology (Graphic Mundi Feb 2021); Women in Comics Magazine (Issue #1: Dear Summer June 2021 “51 Solstice”, Issue #4 Blooming March 2022 “Gumercinda’s Flower”); Mermaids Monthly (February 2021 Issue #2, “Andromeda”); Elsewhere, Volume 2 (Unlikely Heroes Studios, June 2021, “A Real Selfie”); DR163 (WEBTOON); Insider Art (November 2020, “Little Island”); Heroes Need Masks; Salud America! featured her comedic essay on breastfeeding.