Sci-fi. Sensual. Literary.

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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, was 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 prose and comics writer. Accolades for her work include: Kirkus Reviews; The Chautauqua Institution; Publishers Weekly; Kore Press; Broken Pencil Magazine; Canzine; and AWP. Her debut novel To Love Like Venus was a 2026 Kirkus Prize nominee. Event Horizon: Stories of No Turning Back is a vivid portrait of her genre-bending multi-medium collaborations, which marries prose with sequential artists, photographers, astrophysicists, and style writers as a sci-fi-, sensual and literary short story collection. 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 BookCon, 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.

Bio for Comics (Sequential Art) Events:

STEPHANIE NINA PITSIRILOS (To Love Like Venus, Event Horizon: Stories of No Turning Back) is a critically acclaimed prose and comics writer who rides the genre “comic book realism”. She is the recipient of the 2022 Chautauqua Janus Prize for her novel in short story form, “Jean”, which “finely interweaves the Nuyorican experience with the mythology of the X-Men… a love-song to comics and their life-transforming potential”, called “masterful” by Publishers Weekly. Her comics collaborations appear in numerous anthologies such as From Cocinas to Lucha Libre Ringsides; COVID Chronicles; Insider Art; Women in Comics Magazine and Webtoon (DR163)—and most vividly in Event Horizon: Stories of No Turning Back, a sci-fi, sensual and literary genre-bending collection of her stories published by her imprint Janus Point Press that marries prose with astrophysicists, sequential artists, photographers and graffiti style writers. Her debut novel To Love Like Venus was a 2026 Kirkus Prize nominee. Stephanie’s a Kickstarter Superbacker, and many of her works have been for benefits. She is the founder of the Lydia Garcia Author Fund at The Center for Puerto Rican Studies at Hunter College (2025), awarding grants to artists creating around themes of the Puerto Rican experience. She’s reviewed comics submissions for CEX Publishing and is a board member of Graphic Mundi. Stephanie’s a Manhattanite of Nuyorico, with a heart that sails the Aegean Sea. Find her works at www.stephanieninapitsirilos.com

Other Fun Facts:

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 family roots run from the waters of El Fanguito of Santurce, Puerto Rico and the Epirot mountains of Ioannina, 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. Favorite bands: Guns N’ Roses, Muse, Villagers of Ioannina City. Fangirling Nene Royal.

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Her books: To Love Like Venus (Janus Point Press, 2026); Event Horizon: Stories of No Turning Back (Janus Point Press, 2024); Jean, Janus & Comic Book Realism (Janus Point Press, 2023); The Funeral Singer (Janus Point Press 2022);

Books, magazines and organizations with her work include: The Speculative Detective Agency (Diversion Books, Oct 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); 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.