Ken Pisani

KEN PISANI is an Emmy-nominated television producer, film and TV writer, playwright and novelist. His debut novel "AMP'D," published by St. Martin's Press, was a Los Angeles Times best seller and a runner-up for the Thurber Prize for American Humor, and optioned for television. His follow up novella, the quirky mystery, “4 Corners,” earned humbling comparisons to David Lynch and the Coen brothers and was also optioned for television. His recent novel, “The Defection and Subsequent Resurrection of Nikolai Pushkin,” is a decades-spanning romp based on true events.

Ken's original play about retired rival boxers of the civil rights era, "Glove Story," available on Amazon, was a finalist for the O'Neill National Playwrights Conference and selected to the D.C. Black Theatre Festival. His short story, "My Brother Died And All I Got Was This Lousy T-Shirt," was first published in the U.S. and U.K. anthology "More Tonto Short Stories," also available on Amazon. His short story, "The Boy Who Wasn't Dead" was short-listed for the 2025 H. G. Wells Short Story Competition and collected in the anthology, "The Middle Ground," also, you guessed it, available on Amazon. he's also contributed to The Saturday Evening Post, The Louisville Review, Salon, Publishers Weekly, Huffington Post, Literary Hub, Carve, American Writers Review, and other publications. Ken recently completed a new novel, "Days Are Here Again,” and is working on a variety of new projects.