John Weir

Born in Tarrytown, New York, in 1959, John Weir is an American writer whose work has earned a lasting place in contemporary LGBTQ+ literature. He is the author of the novels The Irreversible Decline of Eddie Socket and What I Did Wrong, and the story collection Your Nostalgia Is Killing Me.

His debut novel, The Irreversible Decline of Eddie Socket, won a Lambda Literary Award for gay debut fiction, and he later received an NEA Fellowship in Fiction. Across his work, readers and publishers alike have noted his mix of humor, tenderness, and honesty, especially in stories shaped by friendship, grief, desire, and the long shadow of the AIDS epidemic.

Alongside his writing, Weir has taught creative writing at Queens College, City University of New York. His fiction is often praised for being funny, humane, and quietly devastating all at once.