John Warner (writer)
American writer and editor (born 1970)
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John Warner (born 1970) is an American writer, editor, and teacher of writing.[1] He is the editor of McSweeney's Internet Tendency, a frequent contributor to The Morning News,[2] and has been anthologized in May Contain Nuts, Stumbling and Raging: More Politically Inspired Fiction, and The Future Dictionary of America.[citation needed]
Career
Warner previously taught at Clemson University in Clemson, South Carolina. His focus was creative writing, and he was the director of a Humor Creative Inquiry. In this inquiry, he was working to teach students what humor is and how to create it. This three course series resulted in a student publication in 2008. Warner teaches creative writing at College of Charleston in Charleston, South Carolina.[citation needed] He was the "Chief Creative Czar" of TOW Books, a publishing imprint dedicated to humorous books distributed by F+W Publications.[3][4] The line was inspired by his book, Fondling Your Muse (2005), which parodies Writer's Digest.[4]
Warner frequently collaborates with writer Kevin Guilfoile.[5] Warner's most debut novel was The Funny Man. The book has been reviewed by Publishers Weekly and Kirkus Reviews.[6][7] His short story collection Tough Day for the Army, edited by Michael Griffith, was published by the LSU Press series, Yellow Shoe Fiction, in 2014.[8]
Works
As author
- More Than Words: How to Think About Writing in the Age of AI (2025) (ISBN 978-1541605503)[9][10]
- Sustainable. Resilient. Free.: The Future of Public Higher Education (2020) (ISBN 978-1948742955)
- The Writer's Practice: Building Confidence in Your Nonfiction Writing (2019) (ISBN 978-0143133155)[11][12][13]
- Why They Can't Write: Killing the Five-Paragraph Essay and Other Necessities (2018) (ISBN 978-1421437989)[14][15][16]
- The Funny Man (2011) (ISBN 978-1569479735)
- So You Want to Be President? (2008) (ISBN 1-582-97519-1)
- Fondling Your Muse: Infallible Advice from a Published Author to the Writerly Aspirant (2005) (ISBN 1-582-97348-2)
- My First Presidentiary (2001) (with Kevin Guilfoile) (ISBN 0-609-80818-4)[17]
As editor or co-editor
- Mountain Man Dance Moves: The McSweeney's Book of Lists (2006) (ISBN 0-307-27720-8)
- Created in Darkness by Troubled Americans: The Best of McSweeney's Humor Category (2005) (ISBN 1-400-07685-4)
Personal life
Warner's great uncle is the American writer Allan Seager.[18]