Peter J. Stavros is the author of three short story collections - Three in the Morning and You Don't Smoke Anymore, winner of the Etchings Press 2020 Book Prize for a Chapbook of Prose, (Mostly) True Tales From Birchmont Village, based on his short stories that were first published in The Saturday Evening Post, and All The Things She Says, a collection of short stories that appeared in literary magazines over a seven year span - as well as the novella, Tryouts, which follows one young man's quest to make the varsity basketball team. Peter is also a playwright with plays produced across the country and garnering Audience Choice accolades at various 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.