Steve Szilagyi
Steve Szilagyi is a critic, journalist, novelist and the author of Photographing Fairies, and co-author, with Bill Mesce Jr., of The Advocate.
Ohio-born Szilagyi graduated with honors from Columbia University, winning the Columbia Bennett Cerf Award for Fiction for his unpublished story collection The Night Sophia Loren's Dress Caught Fire in a Restaurant.
A painter and illustrator, Szilagyi has published drawings in New York Magazine and other national publications.
Photographing Fairies, his first novel, was short-listed for the 1993 World Fantasy Award, and was made into the 1997 movie Photographing Fairies starring Ben Kingsley, and directed by Nick Willing.
Szilagyi is a Pushcart Prize Outstanding Writer, winner of a Cleveland Emmy Award, and First Place winner for Best Arts Writing, Ohio Society of Professional Journalists awards.
