Colin Winnette is a writer from Denton, Texas.
His most recent novel Users (Soft Skull 2023) was a Finalist for the 2024 Pen/Faulkner Award for Fiction, a New York Times "Editor's Choice”, one of the New Yorker's "Best Books of 2023”, and was called “The First Great Novel About Virtual Reality” by The Nation.
Winnette’s other novels include The Job of the Wasp (long-listed for the Believer Book Award and an American Bookseller Association’s Indie Next Pick), Haints Stay (one of “15 Westerns that Revitalized the Genre” -InsideHook), Coyote (an indie-bestseller and winner of Les Press’s NOS Book Contest), and Revelation (“A forceful book… about the absolute peril of desire.” -Ben Marcus). His novels have been translated into Italian and French.
His writing has appeared in numerous publications, including Playboy, McSweeney’s, The Believer, Bomb Magazine, and more.
IG: @colinwinnette
Twitter: @aColinWinnette