Scott Stavrou is writer and Creative Writing Teacher. He's the author of the critically acclaimed novel Losing Venice (short-listed for the 2019 People's Book Prize) and the satirical fiction collection, Hemingway Lives: the Super-Secret, Never-Before-Published Blogs of Ernest Hemingway, the award-winning travel book Wasted Away, the original stage play Picketing with Prometheus as well as two original screenplays. Stavrou has written fiction and non-fiction for numerous publications in the U.S. and Europe and was awarded the PEN America International Hemingway Writing Award for short fiction.