Joe Pan’s debut novel, FLORIDA PALMS, published by Simon & Schuster, was a New York Times Editors’ Choice pick and named a “Best of 2025” book by CrimeReads, Library Journal, and the Sun Sentinel. A literary crime thriller, FLORIDA PALMS was hailed as “A musky, Florida-specific stew of sweat, blood, swamp gas, and amphetamine addiction” by the New York Times Book Review.

Author of five poetry collections, Joe Pan is the founding publisher of Brooklyn Arts Press, honored with a National Book Award win in Poetry. His own work has appeared in the Boston Review, the New York Times, and Poets & Writers, with profiles of him appearing in the Brooklyn Rail, the New York Post, Publishers Weekly, and the Wall Street Journal.

With his wife he co-founded Brooklyn Artists Helping, serving unhoused populations with goods. He lives in Hollywood, California.

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Joe Pan is available for in-person and virtual events

Literary Rep: Stephanie Cabot, Susanna Lea Associates

TV/Film Rep: Jason Richman, UTA

Publicist: Margaret Southard Gladstone, Simon & Schuster