Theo Gangi is the author of the literary thriller Bang, Bang. He attended Goucher College and is a recent graduate of Columbia's MFA program. His stories have appeared in The Greensboro Review, The Columbia Spectator and the Kratz Center Sampler. His articles and reviews have appeared in The San Francisco Chronicle, 3AM Magazine and Crucialminutiae.com, where he has a weekly column. Mr. Gangi currently teaches writing at John Jay College, CUNY. A native New Yorker, he currently lives in Harlem.
"Theo Gangi is a superb craftsman. His work displays diverse characters and wonderful dialogue that would make Elmore Leonard stand up and applaud. He is new talent that has finally arrived." --Eric Jerome Dickey, New York Times bestseller author
"Theo Gangi portrays the people of the criminal world not only in a way that brings them to vivid life, but life felt at the extreme, out where suffering, pity, even tenderness and love have their own stark reality." --David Plante, author of Age of Terror
"Theo Gangi's first novel Bang Bang is a classic extreme thriller, with some surprising literary subtleties, and a level of Escherian interlocking that would make Tarantino's head spin." --Madison Smartt Bell, of All Soul's Rising, a National Book Award finalist