BEGINNINGS START AT THE MIDDLE

Good stories often start midway. 

SIMPLICITY TOWARDS COMPLEXITY

How a press starts out. How a story progresses.

DENSITY

We are a small press with layered content.
ABOUT JANUS POINT PRESS

We’re a small publishing imprint and US registered trademark of Zoe Health, LLC. The press serves as a platform for selected prose and comics of author Stephanie Nina Pitsirilos and as a boutique publisher to artist commissioned pieces, artist’s books and print collections. We support the craftmanship of bookmaking.  Janus Point also serves as a creative hub for artists.

What is “Janus Point”

“The Janus Point” is a term coined by physicist Julian Barbour. In his theory of time it’s described as “a unique point of minimal size in the history of the universe”, the Big Bang moment when time arrowed out in two directions with increasing complexity of matter. The Janus Point can be visualized as this middle point between the two, a shared beginning. The name references the Roman god Janus who looks out to the past and the future, and who is associated with beginnings and transitions. The two sides of the Janus Point are not mirror images of one another.

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WATCH OUT FOR WORMHOLES ®

Those tunnels that take you through the fabric of spacetime like a fast-speed highway. For some characters, they are repeated trips to the past, sometimes to bring a seed to the future, Sankofa style. They are also a danger to the book world. Watch out for wormholes ® is a fair warning from a press: maintain your books well, for those little holes you see in their pages are the tunnels other species have made while escaping the paper universe of words, the boundaries of a book. A good book is a wormhole, whether paper or pixels. Ask where it has taken you.

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WHO

STEPHANIE NINA PITSIRILOS

Stephanie’s critically acclaimed work can be found in numerous anthologies, magazines, co-creator digital mediums, and creator-owned platforms. She’s the recipient of the 2022 Chautauqua Janus Prize, and is a graduate of Columbia University (MPH) and The University of Michigan (BS). Visit her author website for a full biography.

CYRUS AMIR BOQUÍN

Cyrus is principally a community physician activist concentrating his healing work within the immigrant and diverse communities of Manhattan. A Michigan-raised child of Honduran and Iranian heritage, he majored in Russian literature at Harvard and counts graffiti stylewriting, Taller Gráfica Popular and contemporary Latin American xilografía, Black printmaking greatness and Persian miniaturist art among his principal inspirations in art and fine press collecting and collaboration.  Chief among his numerous artistic curations and collaborations over the past 20+ years are major University and medical campus events involving: acclaimed and Pulitzer Prize winning authors, playwrights, musicians, poets and legendary stylewriters.

Portrait art by ADRIÁN VIAJERO ROMÁN and JOHN VASQUEZ MEJIAS.
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Digital Love Lust

Digital Love Lust

Asking whether engaging with a digital simulation of a human via a 2D photograph, a hologram, or a personality app decked in the clothing (or no clothing) of your choice, constitutes a healthy reality can be tricky. The answer bends towards no when it removes you from the biological and perhaps spiritual reality of what ... Read more

January 4, 2026

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Climate Change New York Superstorms

Climate Change New York Superstorms

Our Venusian gaze now on NYC in the near-future and the impact of climate change: welcome to the new norm of superstorms. The New York Times has this video outlining the areas of the city subject to future flooding, that any present-day New Yorker can tell you is already felt. However, if you’d like a ... Read more

December 30, 2025

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Climate Change Greece

Climate Change Greece

Looking into the near-future, as To Love Like Venus does in its time-setting in both NYC and Greece, means coming face to face with projected impacts of climate change, as we understand it. One aspect witnessed in the book is that many trees have become a once-upon-a-time in itself, along with species. We are an ... Read more

December 29, 2025

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