About

HG Garner (they/them) loves writing about dread. Usually this desire takes form in stories about people being haunted by concepts or forces outside of their control. Mysterious landscapes appearing out of nothing. Strange sounds that won’t leave someone’s head. In these stories, the background dread of everyday life is brought to the forefront in a way that can’t be ignored. The feelings that are least tangible but most present in our lives become the most haunted. 

Garner grew up reading comics in Corvallis, Oregon. Immersed in the medium, they developed a passion that eventually blossomed into the desire to explore the unique storytelling opportunities offered by it. In the summer of 2024, Garner earned a BFA in Art Practice with a Comic Studies Certificate at Portland State University. They also graduated as one of three recipients of the 2024 Arlene Schnitzer Visual Arts Prize, the highest award offered by Portland State University’s Art Program. Garner currently attends the University of South Florida’s creative writing program, where they occasionally rant about comics to anyone willing to listen.

Currently Garner is working to finish the work that won them the Schnitzer Prize as their Graduate School Thesis Project. White Noise Isle follows a woman who one day finds an island has appeared off of the coast of her city that no one else can see but her. The story follows her as her changing sense of reality threatens an already strained relationship with an old friend, whose history with her might hold answers to this strange phenomenon.