Welcome to the official website of D. HARLAN WILSON, award-winning novelist, short story writer, cultural theorist, screenwriter, pseudobodybuilder, and associate professor of English at Wright State University-Lake Campus. DHW's books include Dr. Identity, or, Farewell to Plaquedemia, Blankety Blank: A Memoir of Vulgaria, Peckinpah: An Ultraviolent Romance, Technologized Desire: Selfhood & the Body in Postcapitalist Science Fiction, The Kafka Effekt, Stranger on the Loose and Pseudo-City.

Dr. Identity, winner of the Stick Figure Prize and the Wonderland Book Award, marks the first installment of The Scikungfi Trilogy. Book 2 is Codename Prague. Book 3 is The Kyoto Man.

This year Atlatl Press will release DHW's latest fiction collection, They Had Goat Heads.

DHW holds a M.A. in English from the University of Massachusetts-Boston, a M.A. in Science Fiction Studies from the University of Liverpool, & a Ph.D. in English from Michigan State University. Prior to his graduate studies he worked as an international salesman, a model & actor, a casino dealer, a security guard, a garbage man, a tax collector, a sommelier, a town crier, & a flâneur.

DHW is the reviews editor for Extrapolation, an academic journal of science fiction and fantasy criticism, and editor-in-chief of The Dream People, a literary journal of irreal texts.

Goathead's Anonymous is DHW's flashblog.