Short Bio

Panio Gianopoulos is a fiction writer, essayist, 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 novella A Familiar Beast. His writing has appeared in Tin House, McSweeney’s, Literary Hub, Salon, and The Los Angeles Review of Books. He is also the co-founder and editorial director of The Next Big Idea Club and Author Insider.

Full Bio

Panio Gianopoulos is a fiction writer, essayist, 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.

His 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 also 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. After earning his M.B.A. from Stanford University, he co-founded Palindrome Media, a startup that developed serialized e-books for television production.

He is currently the co-founder and editorial director of The Next Big Idea Club and Author Insider, where he champions great nonfiction and the writers behind it.

He lives in New York with his family.

Contact

For literary inquiries, please contact Markus Hoffman at Regal Hoffman & Associates: markus[at]regal-literary.com.

For everything else—interviews, collaborations, or just to stay in touch—you can find me on Substack.