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DW Ardern is a novelist, comic, and screenwriter living in Brooklyn, NY with a mischievous rabbit named Hazel and too many books.

He is the author of Master of Starlight (Stalking Horse Press, 2025) and their stories have appeared in The Fourth River, Quagmire Literary Magazine, Stanchion, Vestal Review, Best Microfiction 2023 anthology, Fictive Dream, Jabberwock Review, Oyster River Pages, and The Offbeat among others.

He is the founding editor of EXCERPT, a lit art magazine for emerging novelists. and holds an MFA in Fiction & Screenwriting from Queens University of Charlotte.

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Average rating: 4.67 · 27 ratings · 14 reviews · 4 distinct works • Similar authors

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