Writer based in Austin, Texas

Stuart Ziarnik grew up in the small town of Hartland, Connecticut. He graduated from the University of Connecticut with a degree in English Literature and Psychology. After college he spent time in South Carolina, Chicago, and Boston before settling in Austin, where he lives with his wife and daughter.

His debut chapbook, The Vulture, won The Headlight Review’s 2021 Chapbook Prize and was a finalist in The Hunger Journal’s 2020 Tiny Forks Chapbook Contest. His fiction has also appeared in Flash Fiction Magazine and Space City Underground. In 2023 he finished writing a mystery novel set in Marfa, Texas, and is now working on a novel set in coastal Connecticut. His influences include Karl Ove Knausgaard, Ernest Hemingway, and Philip Roth.

In addition to writing, Ziarnik runs Romancing The Stones, a social club for the Magic: the Gathering card game. He also manages content and advertising sales for a media company.