Ken Pisani is an Emmy-nominated producer and screenwriter, novelist, playwright, and comic book creator. (Ken needs to learn how to focus.) His debut novel, AMP’D, published by St. Martin’s Press, was a Los Angeles Times bestseller and runner-up to Trevor Noah’s Born a Crime for the Thurber Prize for American Humor, and optioned for television. He’s also the writer-creator of the Geekie Award-winning sci-fi graphic novel COLONUS, published by Dark Horse Comics, and the quirky murder mystery novella 4 Corners, also optioned for TV.

Ken has sold network pilots and feature screenplays, events that expired with little fanfare. His credits include a screenplay co-written with David Seidler, Oscar-winner for “The King’s Speech,” and a PBS documentary on the early career of US Supreme Court Justice John Paul Stevens that he hopes to develop as a feature. His fiction was short-listed for the 2025 HG Wells Prize and 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, as well as the anthology More Tonto Short Stories, published in the US and UK. Ken is currently working on a short story collection and a variety of film and TV projects. He lives in Los Angeles with his beautiful wife, Amanda.

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