John Wiswell

John Wiswell is a disabled writer who lives where New York keeps all its trees. He won the Nebula Award for Best Short Story for “Open House on Haunted Hill,” and the Locus Award for Best Novelette for “That Story Isn’t the Story.” His fiction has been translated into ten languages, and has appeared in venues such as the LeVar Burton Reads podcast, Uncanny Magazine, Tordotcom, Diabolical Plots, and The Magazine of Fantasy and Science Fiction. His debut novel, SOMEONE YOU CAN BUILD A NEST IN, is due out from DAW Books in 2024.

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