Award-winning author, journalist and screenwriter, Jerry Stahl is the author of twelve books, including the best-selling novel, I, Fatty and the memoir, Permanent Midnight, made into a movie starring Ben Stiller. His most recent work, Nein, Nein, Nein!, was included in Kirkus Reviews 100 Best Books of 2023 and optioned by Robert Downey. His much-anthologized journalism and fiction have appeared in Esquire, the Believer, Vice, and The New York Times, among other places. Stahl has written extensively for TV and film, including the highest rated episodes of CSI, Bad Boys 2, Hemingway & Gellhorn, and Escape at Dannemora, for which he received an Emmy nomination. With the director, he co-wrote the underground classics, Café Flesh and Dr. Caligari, which continue to be shown at European avant garde festivals. Stahl has taught at Sylmar Juvenile Hall and San Quentin. His acting credits include David Lynch's Inland Empire and Apple TV's Severance. A new novel, Bad Sex in the Afterlife, will be published by Arcade Books in 2027. He has two daughters, and is married to Zoe Hansen, whose memoir, Going Down in Gotham, will be released in spring 2026. He has worked at McDonalds (at 38, not to brag), is a father of two daughters and a former heroin addict.