Panio Gianopoulos

Panio Gianopoulos (born July 7, 1975) is an American writer and editor in chief.

Biography

Career

Panio Gianopoulos is the author of A Familiar Beast, a darkly comic novella about a newly divorced man in search of redemption. His second book, How to Get Into Our House and Where We Keep the Money, a short story collection about men and women struggling to find and keep love, received a starred review from Kirkus Reviews. Kirkus praised the stories for their humor and insights, calling the book "witty, discerning, and laugh-out-loud funny.”

His stories, essays, and poetry have appeared in various magazines and newspapers, including Tin House, Salon, Northwest Review, The Rattling Wall, Chicago Quarterly Review, Big Fiction, The Brooklyn Rail, Catamaran Literary Reader, and The Los Angeles Review of Books. A recipient of a New York Foundation for the Arts Award for Non-Fiction, Gianopoulos has been included in the anthologies The Bastard on the Couch, Cooking and Stealing: The Tin House Non-Fiction Reader, and "The Encyclopedia of Exes". A former book editor, he has worked at Crown Publishing, Talk Miramax Books, Bloomsbury Publishing, Backlit Fiction, and is currently the co-founder and editorial director of media startup, Heleo.

Education

Gianopoulos has a B.A. from the University of Massachusetts Amherst. In 2010, he received his M.B.A. from Stanford University.

Personal life

He has been married to the actress Molly Ringwald since 2007. They have three children, daughter Mathilda Ereni (born October 22, 2003), and twins, Adele Georgiana and Roman Stylianos (born July 10, 2009). He is a Greek-American who was born in and grew up in Massachusetts.