John D. Wagner

John D. Wagner is an American author and businessman active in the lumber and building materials and corporate finance sectors.

Career Wagner has contributed articles and opinion pieces to trade publications within the construction and building materials industry, including the LBM Journal and the Journal of Light Construction. Articles written by Wagner have appeared in The New York Times, the Los Angeles Times, and the Chicago Tribune.

In addition to business and construction writing, Wagner has published fiction, including the 2011 middle grade novel The Crash Crystal: A Lego Mystery. His poetry collections include Fake Cities (2016) and The Kallima Butterfly (2022).

Wagner has served as an instructor at several institutions, including the University of Alabama and Norwich University. Since 2011, he has been the chief marketing officer of Wagner Media. In 2015, he became a managing director focusing on the LBM sector for 1stWest M&A.