Peter J. Stavros is a writer and playwright in Louisville, Kentucky, and the author of the novels, The Thing About My Uncle (BHC Press, 2024), The Reasonable Prudent Man (Silent Clamor Press, 2026), and The Barrister Wore Wrestling Tights (Foundations Book Publishing, 2027). His work has appeared in literary journals, magazines, newspapers and anthologies, including The Saturday Evening Post, The Boston Globe Magazine and Chicken Soup for the Soul.
His collection of short stories, Three in the Morning and You Don’t Smoke Anymore (Etchings Press, 2020), won the Etchings Press 2020 Book Prize for a Chapbook of Prose. Peter's plays have been produced across the country, and as far away as Zambia, garnering Audience Choice accolades at various festivals.
Peter earned a BA in English from Duke University, where he received the prestigious Newman Ivey White Award for Fiction, and studied creative writing on a graduate level at Emerson College and Harvard University.
