Aaron Hamburger

{{short description|American writer (born 1973)}}

{{Use mdy dates|date=January 2025}}

{{infobox writer

|name=Aaron Hamburger

|image=Aaron Hamburger 2023 Texas Book Festival.jpg

|caption=Hamburger at the 2023 Texas Book Festival

|birth_date={{birth year and age|1973}}

|birth_place=Detroit, Michigan, U.S.

|occupation=Writer

|education=University of Michigan (BA)

}}

Aaron Hamburger (born 1973) is an American writer best known for his short story collection The View from Stalin's Head (2004) and novels Faith for Beginners (2005) and Nirvana Is Here (2019).

Born in Detroit, Michigan, Hamburger went to college at the University of Michigan (BA 1995) and then spent a year abroad teaching English in Prague, Czech Republic, the setting for his first book of stories, primarily about the lives of expatriates after the end of the Cold War. The View from Stalin's Head was awarded the Rome Prize by the American Academy of Arts and Letters and the American Academy in Rome. His next book, Faith for Beginners, is a novel about a dysfunctional family vacation in Jerusalem, and was nominated for a Lambda Literary Award.{{cite web |url=http://www.aaronhamburger.com/bio.html |title=Aaron Hamburger.com/Bio |publisher=Aaronhamburger.com |date=January 21, 2013 |access-date=December 4, 2013 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20120316114322/http://www.aaronhamburger.com/bio.html |archive-date=March 16, 2012 |url-status=dead }} His novel Nirvana Is Here was published in 2019 and won a Bronze Medal in the 2019 Forewords Indie Awards.{{Cite web|url=https://www.forewordreviews.com/awards/winners/2019/lgbtq/|title = 2019 Foreword INDIES Winners in LGBTQ+ (Adult Fiction)}} His novel Hotel Cuba was published in 2023. He was awarded the 2023 Jim Duggins, PhD Outstanding Mid-Career Novelist Prize by Lambda Literary.

Hamburger's writing has appeared in The New York Times,{{Cite web|url=https://www.nytimes.com/2016/01/31/books/review/what-belongs-to-you-by-garth-greenwell.html|title = 'What Belongs to You,' by Garth Greenwell|work=The New York Times|date=January 31, 2016|access-date=June 9, 2024}} The Washington Post,{{Cite news|url=https://www.washingtonpost.com/outlook/yes-kurt-cobain-was-a-grunge-icon-he-was-also-a-gay-rights-hero/2019/04/01/00a62e24-50a3-11e9-8d28-f5149e5a2fda_story.html|title = Yes, Kurt Cobain was a grunge icon. He was also a gay rights hero.|newspaper=The Washington Post|date=April 1, 2019|access-date=June 9, 2024}} The Chicago Tribune, Tin House,{{Cite web|url=https://tinhouse.com/sweetness-mattered/|title = Sweetness Mattered|publisher=Tin House|date=June 27, 2018|access-date=June 9, 2024}} O, the Oprah Magazine, Subtropics, Crazyhorse,{{Cite web|url=https://swamp-pink.cofc.edu/featured/guiltless-pleasures/|title = Guiltless Pleasures|website=Crazyhorse|publisher=College of Charleston|date=Fall 2016|access-date=June 9, 2024}} Boulevard, Tablet, The Village Voice,{{cite news |url=http://www.villagevoice.com/authors/aaron-hamburger/ |title=The Village Voice, Aaron Hamburger |publisher=The Village Voice |access-date=December 4, 2013 |archive-date=October 21, 2012 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20121021171504/http://www.villagevoice.com/authors/aaron-hamburger/ |url-status=dead }} Out, Poets and Writers, Details, Nerve,{{cite web|url=http://www.nerve.com/content/experiment |title=Nerve Magazine, "Fiction:Experiment", April 27, 2000 |publisher=Nerve |date=April 27, 2000 |access-date=December 4, 2013}} and Time Out New York.

He has won fellowships from the Civitella Ranieri Foundation, the DC Commission on the Arts and Humanities, and the Edward F. Albee Foundation as well as first place in the David J. Dornstein Contest for Young Jewish Writers. He has taught writing at Columbia University, George Washington University, the Stonecoast MFA Program (University of Southern Maine),{{cite web|url=http://usm.maine.edu/stonecoastmfa/faculty/hamburger.html |publisher=University of Southern Maine|title=Stonecoast MFA in Creative Writing |access-date=December 4, 2013 |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20100519034547/http://www.usm.maine.edu/stonecoastmfa/faculty/hamburger.html |archive-date=May 19, 2010 }} and the American Language Institute (New York University).{{cite web|url=http://www.columbia.edu/cu/writing/faculty/aaron-hamburger1.html |publisher=Columbia University|title=Faculty:Aaron Hamburger |access-date=December 4, 2013 |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20130331050244/http://www.columbia.edu/cu/writing/faculty/aaron-hamburger1.html |archive-date=March 31, 2013 }}