Panio Gianopoulos is a Greek-American fiction writer and essayist. His books include the short 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 writing has 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, he 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, Bloomsbury Publishing, and Palindrome Media, a startup he co-founded with Dan Kessler, which focused on creating and developing e-books for television. (It was LA…)
He received his B.A. from the University of Massachusetts at Amherst and his M.B.A. from Stanford University. He is the co-founder and editorial director of The Next Big Idea Club, a nonfiction book discovery platform and subscription book club curated by Malcolm Gladwell, Susan Cain, Daniel Pink, and Adam Grant.
He lives in New York with his wife, the actor/writer Molly Ringwald, and their three children.
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