James Ziskin

James Ziskin is the author of the Ellie Stone mysteries, Styx & Stone (October 2013) and No Stone Unturned (June 2014), both from Seventh Street Books. A linguist by training, he studied Romance languages and literature at the University of Pennsylvania. After completing his graduate degree, he worked in New York as a photo-news producer and writer, and then as Director of NYU’s Casa Italiana Zerilli-Marimò. He has since spent fifteen years in the Hollywood post production industry, running large international operations in the subtitling/localization and visual effects fields. The next Ellie Stone mystery, Stone Cold Dead, is due in the summer of 2015. Visit James at: www.JamesWZiskin.com