PRESS Bio (50 words): Eric Maus is the author of Women and Whiskey. His short films have premiered at the Chelsea Film Festival and NYLIFF. His screenplays won the Grand Prize at Table Read My Screenplay and semifinaled at the Big Break Contest and PAGE Awards. He is a filmmaker and writer based in Brooklyn, NY, and studied poetry at the University of Wisconsin–Madison.

PRESS Bio (100 words): Eric Maus is an author and filmmaker based in Brooklyn, NY. He published his debut novel, Women and Whiskey, in 2025. His short films have screened at the Chelsea Film Festival and the New York Long Island Film Festival, where he also won Best Actor for his role in Bad at Dog. His screenplays have earned top honors, including the Grand Prize at the Table Read My Screenplay Contest, and placements at Final Draft’s Big Break, the PAGE International Awards, and the Nicholl Fellowship. He studied poetry at the University of Wisconsin–Madison.

PRESS Bio (250 words): Eric Maus is an author and filmmaker originally from Wisconsin, now living and working in Brooklyn, NY. He studied poetry at the University of Wisconsin–Madison, a foundation that continues to shape the sharp emotional lyricism and observational precision present throughout his work.

Women and Whiskey is his debut novel—a raw, darkly funny, and lyrically charged portrait of loose love, booze, and lies, told through the eyes of a drunken poet spiraling toward a reckoning. The novel explores intimacy, masculinity, and emotional avoidance with humor and unflinching honesty, resisting easy redemption in favor of something messier and more human.

Over the past decade, Eric has written screenplays, directed short films, and told stories across genres and platforms. His screenplay Electric Peak won the Table Read My Screenplay competition in 2022 and was a semifinalist in Final Draft’s Big Break Contest in 2023. His short film Devil’s Threesome premiered at the Chelsea Film Festival in 2024, and Bad at Dog premiered at the New York Long Island Film Festival in 2025.

Whether on the page or behind the camera, his work explores flawed relationships, emotional self-sabotage, and the often blurry line between desire and destruction. He is drawn to characters who can’t get out of their own way—and to the quiet beauty that can emerge from their chaos.

Eric’s creative process is rooted in honesty and lived experience. His stories aim to make readers feel seen in their messiness. When he’s not writing, he’s wandering through Brooklyn—or another corner of the world—with a notebook, searching for the next character or the next dive bar.