Aaron Tillman is Associate Director of the Writing Program at UMass Amherst. His short story collection, Consolation Miracles, was published by Gateway Literary Press in 2022; his book of critical nonfiction, Magical American Jew, was published by Lexington Books in 2018, and his short story collection, Every Single Bone in My Brain, was published by Braddock Avenue Books in 2017. 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 lives in Boston and can be found online at aarontillmanfiction.com

Website: https://www.aarontillmanfiction.com/

Twitter Username: @TillmanAaronS

Publications

• Consolation Miracles: Stories , Gateway Literary Press (2022)
• Magical American Jew , Lexington Books (2018)
• Every Single Bone in My Brain: Stories , Braddock Avenue Books (2017)

Awards

• Gival Press Short Story Award (2022)
• John Gardner Memorial Prize in Fiction(2018)
• Finalist, The Mississippi Review Short Fiction Contest(2017)
• Glimmer Train Stories’ Short-Story Award for New Writers

Employment

• Associate Director of the Writing Program at University of Massachusetts Amherst

Degrees

• Doctoral Degree in English from University of Rhode Island
• Master of Fine Arts in Fiction Writing from Sarah Lawrence College

Genres of Interest

Fiction, Screenwriting, Children's literature , Poetry