John Warner (born 1970) is an American writer, editor, and teacher of writing. He is the editor of McSweeney’s Internet Tendency, a frequent contributor to The Morning News, and has been anthologized in May Contain Nuts, Stumbling and Raging: More Politically Inspired Fiction, and The Future Dictionary of America.
Books in order of publication:
My First Presidentiary (2001)
Fondling Your Muse: Infallible Advice from a Published Author to the Writerly Aspirant (2005)
So You Want to Be President? (2008)
The Funny Man (2011)
Why They Can’t Write: Killing the Five-Paragraph Essay and Other Necessities (2018)
The Writer’s Practice: Building Confidence in Your Nonfiction Writing (2019)
Sustainable. Resilient. Free.: The Future of Public Higher Education (2020)
More Than Words: How to Think About Writing in the Age of AI (2025)
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