

His play How I Met My (Black) Wife (Again), co-written with Ray Iannicelli, has been produced in New York City. An earlier novel, Trax, was published under a pseudonym. He moderated a conversation between Kurt Vonnegut and Lee Stringer which was later published as Like Shaking Hands with God and his short stories have appeared in magazines and been produced by the BBC. Klavan recently finished an adaption of John Bowers’ The Colony and has written scripts for Miramax, Intermedia, Walden Media, Paramount and TNT TV, among others. His original screenplay for the film Tigerland starring Colin Farrell was nominated for an Independent Spirit Award. His darkly comic novel Schmuck was published by Greenpoint Press in 2014.

Ross Klavan ’s novella Thump Gun Hitched was published in 2016 in the compilation Triple Shot (along with Charles Salzberg and Tim O’Mara) by Down and Out Press. She received her MFA in creative writing from Columbia University. She hosts the virtual Let’s Talk Books Author Series, curates and co-hosts the Pen Parentis Literary Salon in New York City, and is a founding member of the Asian American Writers’ Workshop. Chiu has published in Tin House, The New Guard, Washington Square, The MacGuffin, Charlie Chan is Dead 2, Not the Only One, Washington Square, and has won literary prizes from Playboy, New Stone Circle, El Dorado Writers’ Guild, World Wide Writers. Troublemaker was a nominee for the Stephen Crane First Fiction Award and winner of the Asian American Literary Award. She is also author of Troublemaker and Other Saints, published by G.P. Christina Chiu is the winner of the James Alan McPherson Award for her novel Beauty, a Kirkus Best Books of 2020.
