Aaron Tillman

Aaron Tillman is a fiction writer who grew up in Wilkes-Barre, PA, lives in Boston, MA, and is Associate Director of the Writing Program at the University of Massachusetts Amherst. His magical realist mystery novel, LUCY MILES’ PHOTOGENIC MIND, is forthcoming from Regal House Publishing (Nov. 2026). He is the author of two short story collections, Consolation Miracles and Every Single Bone in My Brain, and a book of critical nonfiction, Magical American Jew. He received the Gival Press Short Story Award, the John Gardner Memorial Prize in Fiction, 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, Pembroke Magazine, Narrative Magazine, Harpur Palate, upstreet, Sou’wester, and elsewhere. He has recorded stories for radio broadcast, and his essays and reviews have appeared in The Writer’s Chronicle, Colorado Review, Studies in American Humor, Symbolism, and The CEA Critic. He earned his PhD in English from University of Rhode Island, his MFA in Fiction Writing from Sarah Lawrence College, and his BA in English from Hobart College.