Cihan Kaan (born 1976) is a musician, filmmaker and author from the United Kingdom, who resides in New York. His career began as a musician, releasing and recording electronic music under the alias of 8Bit. He is best known for his first novel, Halal Pork and Other Stories. It focuses on a post 9/11 world set in New York, exploring the misinterpretations of religion and races. Kaan wrote and directed the short film She's Got an Atomic Bomb. He is also the first British fiction author from both Turkish and Crimean Tatar descent.