Aaron Hamburger

Aaron Hamburger is the author of the novels HOTEL CUBA, winner of the Bridge Book Award for American Fiction, NIRVANA IS HERE, winner of a Bronze Medal from the 2019 Foreword Reviews Indie Awards, and the novel FAITH FOR BEGINNERS, nominated for a Lambda Literary Award. His story collection titled THE VIEW FROM STALIN’S HEAD was awarded the Rome Prize by the American Academy of Arts and Letters and nominated for a Violet Quill Award. His novel THE SHIVA BANDIT is due out from HarperPerennial in April 2027.

His writing has appeared in The New York Times, The Washington Post, The Chicago Tribune, The Village Voice, Tin House, Michigan Quarterly Review, Subtropics, Crazyhorse, Boulevard, Poets & Writers, Tablet, O, the Oprah Magazine, Out, The Massachusetts Review, The Bennington Review, Nerve, Time Out, Details, and The Forward. He was awarded the 2023 Jim Duggins, PhD Outstanding Mid-Career Novelist Prize. He has also won fellowships from Yaddo, Djerassi, the Civitella Ranieri Foundation, the DC Commission on the Arts and Humanities, and the Edward F. Albee Foundation as well as first prize in the Dornstein Contest for Young Jewish Writers, and his short fiction and non-fiction have received special mentions for the Pushcart Prize.

He has taught creative writing at Columbia University, the George Washington University, New York University, Brooklyn College, and the Stonecoast MFA Program.