Gordon A. Weaver (February 2, 1937 – April 2, 2021) was an American novelist and short story writer.
Weaver was born in Moline, Illinois in February 1937, the fifth of the five children of Noble Rodell Weaver and Inez Katherine Nelson.
His family moved to Milwaukee, Wisconsin in 1941.
He was founding editor of the Mississippi Review, fiction editor of Cimarron Review from 1975 to 1986, managing editor of the AWP (Association of Writers & Writing Programs) Award Series for Short Fiction from 1977 to 1979, and general editor of the Twayne Studies in Short Fiction (Twayne Publishers, Boston/New York) from 1986 to 1997.
He retired to the Milwaukee area in the 1990s and died in April 2021.