About

My name is Aaron Gilbreath. I’m an essayist, journalist and burrito enthusiast. I’ve written essays and articles for Harper’s, The New York Times, Paris Review, Vice, The Morning News, Saveur, Tin House, The Believer, Oxford American, Kenyon Review, Slate, Virginia Quarterly Review, Narratively, The Threepenny Review, and Brick. My essay “\’ra-di-kəl\” from Hotel Amerika is a Notable Essay in Best American Essays 2013, and “Dreams of the Atomic Era,” from the Cincinnati Review, is a Notable in Best American Essays 2011. Curbside Splendor will publish my essay collection, Everything We Don’t Know, in 2016. My collection of jazz essays, entitled This Is, just came out, and I wrote the musical appendix in The Oxford Companion to Sugar and Sweets. I’m deep into music, books, regional foods, Japan and the natural world, and I’m probably eating a burrito. You can find an excerpt from my Link Wray-themed novel, “Run Chicken Run,” at storySouth. You can find me on Facebook and Twitter, and contact me at prowlinggilamonster AT gmail DOT com