Cihan Kaan is a Texas-born, Brooklyn-raised writer, filmmaker and musician. His short film She’s Got an Atomic Bomb (2004) won Best Short Film for the Evil City Festival and toured underground film festivals such as the Coney Island Film Festival, the B-Movie Film Festival (winner of the Audience Award), and the Lost Film Festival. His second short film, Shuffle Mode (2006) won Best Short Film at the Sin Cine NYC Erotic Film Festival. He also directed a trilogy of music videos the aired on MTV. His book of short stories, Halal Pork and Other Stories, is forthcoming in Spring 2011 from UpSet Press. He is the first American fiction author of Crimean Tatar descent.