Scott Stavrou

Scott Stavrou is the award-winning author of the critically acclaimed novel, Losing Venice, (Short-Listed for the 2019 People's Book Prize) and the literary satire, Hemingway Lives. He has written fiction and non-fiction for numerous publications and served as a writer, editor and consultant for many successful U.S. and European media outlets. He also wrote the popular travel/humor book Wasted Away and the award-winning stage play Picketing With Prometheus, as well as two optioned (Fox Searchlight) screenplays. He was awarded a PEN Center Hemingway Award for Short Fiction and is a long time member of the International Food, Wine and Travel Writers Association and the Georgetown Entertainment & Media Alliance. He has taught Creative Writing in both the U.S. and Europe. American born and raised, he has lived in Europe for much of the past two decades. His writing is represented by Marly Rusoff & Associates in New York.