Peter J. Stavros
Peter J. Stavros is a writer in Louisville, Kentucky, and the author of the chapbook Three in the Morning and You Don’t Smoke Anymore (Etchings Press, 2020), winner of the Etchings Press 2020 Book Prize for a Chapbook of Prose. His work has appeared in The Saturday Evening Post, The Boston Globe Magazine, Cheap Pop, Crack the Spine and Hypertext Magazine, among others. In addition, Peter is a playwright who has had plays produced across the country, receiving Audience Choice accolades at numerous festivals. He earned a BA in English from Duke University, where he received the Newman Ivey White Award for Fiction, and studied creative writing on a graduate level at Emerson College and Harvard University. More can be found at www.peterjstavros.com and follow on Twitter @PeterJStavros.
Works

Three in the Morning and You Don't Smoke Anymore
Dark humor and gritty reality meet in a small, dirty house belonging to a man trying to escape his past. In this collection of intertwined, nonlinear short stories, Peter J. Stavros depicts the ups and downs of life and the pain of trying to move on when everything is a reminder of what life once was. With a protagonist that is perfectly flawed in the way any person can be, the journey of this collection is one that leaves an impression as the author puts us directly into the mind of this down-on-his-luck man. Three in the Morning and You Don’t Smoke Anymore is a story that doesn’t shy away from embracing the highest of the highs and the lowest of the lows, and shows that life doesn’t have to be that white picket fence and perfect family to be important and worthwhile.