D. Harlan Wilson (born September 3, 1971) is an American novelist, short-story writer, critic, playwright and English professor.

Identity, the two-volume short story collection Battle without Honor or Humanity, a monograph on John Carpenter’s They Live and a critical study of the life and work of J. G.

He is also known for helping create and shape the aesthetics of bizarro fiction,[7][8][9] which has been described as a "mélange of elements of absurdism, satire, and the grotesque.

[10][11] Much of his writing satirizes the idiocy of pop culture and western society, illustrating how "the reel increasingly usurps the real.

"[13] Publishers Weekly has described his fiction as "testosterone-fueled and intentionally disorienting" which "invokes not a dialogue with the reader but a bare-knuckle fistfight.