Austyn Wohlers was born in Atlanta in 1996. Her first novel, Hothouse Bloom, was called “the rare kind of debut that resets the bar for the field at large” by Blake Butler and “strikingly original” by Mesha Maren in The New York Times. Currently, she is a visiting professor in the Queens College MFA in Creative Writing.
Her fiction, poetry, translation, and criticism have appeared in The Baffler, Guernica, The Massachusetts Review, and elsewhere. She is also a musician.
Represented by Alex Reubert at HG Literary.