About

Brief Bio:

STEPHANIE NINA PITSIRILOS’ critically acclaimed work can be found in numerous anthologies, magazines, co-creator platforms and artists’ book form. She is the recipient of the 2022 Chautauqua Janus Prize for her story “Jean”. Her creative mediums are prose, comics, graphic novels, and zines. Home is New York City.

Short Bio:

STEPHANIE NINA PITSIRILOS is a writer with critically acclaimed work in numerous anthologies, magazines, co-creator platforms, and artists’ book form. She is the recipient of the 2022 Chautauqua Janus Prize for her story “Jean,” called “masterful” by Publishers Weekly. She’s recognized as a new voice transforming the genres of science fiction and fantasy and revitalizing the short comic form. She creates visual art as ANDROMEDA.

Long Bio:

Stephanie Nina Pitsirilos’s critically acclaimed and award winning works can be found in numerous anthologies, magazines, co-creator platforms, and artists’ book form. Her creative mediums are principally prose, comics, graphic novels, and zines. She creates visual art as ANDROMEDA. Stephanie’s a Manhattanite of Nuyorico, with a heart that sails the Aegean sea.

Stephanie is the recipient of the 2022 Chautauqua Janus Prize for her story “Jean” and her work has been highlighted by Publishers Weekly, Kore Press, Broken Pencil Magazine, and as a Canzine2021 finalist. 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”.

As a novelist she writes literary and speculative 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. 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.

Other fun facts: Stephanie’s 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. Kweli keeps her sharp. Stephanie volunteers as a 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: From Cocinas to Lucha Libre Ringsides (Ohio State University 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.