Panio Gianopoulos is a short story writer, novelist, and book editor. He is the author of the story collection, How to Get Into Our House and Where We Keep the Money and the #1 indie-bestselling novella, A Familiar Beast. (Incidentally, his name is easier to pronounce than it looks: PAWN-ee-oh.)
Panio’s short stories and essays have appeared in Tin House, Northwest Review, Chicago Quarterly Review, McSweeney's Internet Tendency, Literary Hub, Salon, The Rattling Wall, Big Fiction, Weekly Humorist, The Brooklyn Rail, Catamaran Literary Reader, and the Los Angeles Review of Books, among others. A recipient of a New York Foundation for the Arts Award for Non-Fiction, his work has been featured in the anthologies The Bastard on the Couch, Cooking and Stealing: The Tin House Non-Fiction Reader, and The Encyclopedia of Exes.
A veteran book editor, Panio has worked at Crown Publishing, Talk Miramax Books, and Bloomsbury Publishing, where he edited dozens of wonderful authors, including Anthony Bourdain, Chelsea Handler, and JT LeRoy (who, strangely, turned out not to exist—it’s a long story). After receiving his M.B.A. from Stanford University, he co-founded Palindrome Media, a startup that developed serialized e-books for television production. Currently, he is the co-founder and editorial director of The Next Big Idea Club, a nonfiction subscription book club that picks the most promising new books in the fields of business, psychology, productivity, creativity, and popular science.
He lives in New York with his wife, the actor/writer Molly Ringwald, and their three children.
Contact
Literary agent
Markus Hoffman, Regal Hoffman & Associates
markus[at]regal-literary.com