Aaron Tillman

Aaron Tillman is Associate Director of the Writing Program at UMass Amherst. He is the author of two short story collections, Consolation Miracles and Every Single Bone in My Brain, a book of critical nonfiction, Magical American Jew, and has a novel forthcoming from Regal House Publishing. He received the Gival Press Short Story Award, the John Gardner Memorial Prize in Fiction from Harpur Palate, a Short Story Award for New Writers from Glimmer Train Stories, and his work has been nominated for the Pushcart Prize. His stories have appeared in Mississippi Review, Glimmer Train, Narrative Magazine, Harpur Palate, upstreet, Sou’wester, great weather for MEDIA, and elsewhere. He has recorded stories for radio broadcast, and his essays have appeared in The Writer’s Chronicle, Studies in American Humor, Symbolism, The CEA Critic, and The Intersection of Fantasy and Native America. He has a PhD from the University of Rhode Island and an MFA from Sarah Lawrence College.