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Aaron Tillman

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Born

in Wilkes-Barre, PA, The United States

March 14

Website

http://www.aarontillmanfiction.com/

Genre

Fiction, Humor and Comedy, Mystery

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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 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, Pembroke ...more

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Average rating: 3.88 · 3,128 ratings · 32 reviews · 22 distinct works • Similar authors

	Lucy Miles’ Photogenic Mind 4.08 avg rating — 13 ratings	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Every Single Bone in My Brain 4.78 avg rating — 9 ratings — published 2017	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Consolation Miracles: Stories 4.40 avg rating — 5 ratings — published 2022 — 2 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Magical American Jew: The Enigma of Difference in Contemporary Jewish American Short Fiction and Film really liked it 4.00 avg rating — 1 rating — 3 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
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	Shakespeare (Bloom's Modern Critical Views) by Aaron Tillman (2004-01-03) 0.00 avg rating — 0 ratings — 2 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Toni Morrison (Bloom's BioCritiques) by Aaron Tillman (2002-02-01) 0.00 avg rating — 0 ratings — 2 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Don Delillo (Bloom's Modern Critical Views) by Aaron Tillman (2002-09-01) 0.00 avg rating — 0 ratings	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Lucy Miles' Photogenic Mind: A Novel 0.00 avg rating — 0 ratings	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Autumn friends and Thanksgiving fun: Cozy fall coloring book, Easy to color, designs with Pumpkins, Turkeys and Autumn leaves for kids 0.00 avg rating — 0 ratings	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars

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Aaron Tillman rated a book it was amazing The Inhabitants by Beth Castrodale (Goodreads Author)	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
In Beth Castrodale’s novel, The Inhabitants, the past melds with the present in a hauntingly beautiful way. Merging art and architecture, activism and otherworldly retribution, Castrodale drew me right into a world that felt familiar and entirely sin ...more
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