John Wiswell is an American science fiction and fantasy author whose short fiction has won the Locus and Nebula Awards and been a finalist for the Hugo, British Fantasy, and World Fantasy Awards.

His debut fantasy novel, Someone You Can Build a Nest In, was released in April 2024 by DAW Books and Quercus. Wiswell’s short fiction has been characterized as making outlandish and unsettling concepts feel familiar, often overlapping with metaphors for disability, while also frequently having a “lighthearted and clever” tone.

He has written fiction for numerous venues including Nature, Fantasy and Science Fiction, Lightspeed, Tor.com, the NoSleep Podcast, and Uncanny Magazine. In 2022, DAW Books acquired the rights to publish Wiswell’s first two fantasy novels. The debut novel, Someone You Can Build a Nest In, is described as a “creepy, charming monster-slaying sapphic romance — from the perspective of the monster” and was released in spring 2024.

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