John Weir (born 8 February 1959 in

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) is an American writer."WEIR, John 1959-"

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. He is the author of two novels, ''The Irreversible Decline of Eddie Socket'' (HarperCollins, 1989), which won the

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for Gay Debut Fiction at the

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in 1990, and for which he received an NEA Fellowship in Fiction in 1991; and ''What I Did Wrong'' (Viking, 2006); and the story collection '' Your Nostalgia Is Killing Me'', which won the 2020 AWP Grace Paley Prize for Short Fiction, and was published by Red Hen Press in 2022. In the early 1990s, he was a Contributing Editor at ''

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''; and he has published nonfiction in ''

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'', and elsewhere. His short fiction has appeared in ''

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'', and elsewhere. In 1991, in conjunction with ACT UP New York's Day of Desperation action to draw attention to government and media neglect of the global AIDS crisis, Weir and several fellow activists interrupted '' The CBS Evening News with Dan Rather''. Weir is associate professor of English at

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, where he has taught English and Creative Writing since 1993, and where he teaches in the MFA Program in Creative Writing and Literary Translation.

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