J E WeinerJ. E. Weiner is a writer and novelist based in Northern California. Her debut novel, The Wretched and Undone, a searing Southern Gothic tale set in the Texas Hill Country and inspired by real people and actual events, was released by History Through Fiction on March 18, 2025. The book was named a Killer Nashville Top Pick for 2024, a 2024 Claymore Award Finalist for Best Southern Gothic, and a semifinalist for the 2025 Laramie Book Awards, recognizing emerging talent in Western, First Nations, and Americana Fiction. Weiner's creative nonfiction has appeared in the literary journals Madcap Review, Five Minutes, HerStry, and Chicago Story Press, as well as the recent grit lit anthology Red-Headed Writing (Cowboy Jamboree Press, 2024), and her work was recently shortlisted for The Letter Review Prize for Essays & Nonfiction. 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. Read More Read Less