K. R. Wilson grew up in Calgary, Alberta, Canada. He has a Bachelor of Music degree from the University of Calgary, which is probably why his writing contains all those musical references. He lives in Toronto.
His debut novel, An Idea About My Dead Uncle, won the inaugural Guernica Prize for unpublished manuscript in 2018 and was published by Guernica Editions in 2019.
His novel Call Me Stan: A Tragedy in Three Millennia was published by Guernica Editions in 2021 and was long-listed for the 2022 Leacock Medal for Literary Humour. Stan On Guard, a sequel to Call Me Stan, will be published by Guernica Editions in 2026. His SF/noir novel Tendrils will be published by Palimpsest Press in early 2027.
His work has also appeared in Bywords, The Temz Review, Syncopation Literary Journal, DarkWinter Literary Magazine, Pinhole Poetry, and the flash fiction anthology This Will Only Take a Minute.