John Weir

Born in Tarrytown, New York, in 1959, John Weir is an American writer best known for The Irreversible Decline of Eddie Socket and What I Did Wrong. His debut novel won the Lambda Literary Award for Gay Debut Fiction, and he later received an NEA Fellowship in Fiction.

Weir has also written short fiction, including the collection Your Nostalgia Is Killing Me, which won the Grace Paley Prize for Short Fiction. Across his work, he is often noted for blending humor with grief, especially in stories that touch on gay experience, the AIDS crisis, and the complicated ways people remember the past.

Alongside his writing, he has taught creative writing at Queens College, City University of New York. His essays and nonfiction have appeared in publications including The New York Times, Rolling Stone, and Spin.