About — J. E. Weiner

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I am a magnet for ghosts—bothersome spirits, casual travelers, desperate souls—invited and uninvited, familiar faces and strangers alike.

I am a historian drawn to storytelling that lifts voices silenced and lessons still not learned.

I am a mother who has lost a child and risen from the ashes of unassailable grief.

I have kept my stories close.

Until now...

J. E. Weiner is a writer and novelist based in Northern California. Her debut novel, The Wretched and Undone, a sweeping Southern Gothic tale set in the Texas Hill Country and inspired by real people and actual events, is forthcoming from HTF Publishing in March 2025. The book manuscript was named a Killer Nashville Top Pick for 2024 and a Claymore Award Finalist for Best Southern Gothic. Weiner’s previous work has appeared in the literary journals Madcap Review, Five Minutes, and HerStry, as well as the recent grit lit anthology Red-Headed Writing (Cowboy Jamboree Press, 2024). Weiner is a founding member of the Pacific Coast Writers Collective, and while living and writing in blissful exile on the West Coast, her heart remains bound to her childhood home, the Great State of Texas.