Austin Gilkeson

Austin Gilkeson writes stories for children and essays for people of all ages.

He has written for The New York Review of Books, Tin House, McSweeney's, ForeignPolicy, Vulture, Catapult, Tor.com, Tor Nightfire, The Toast, The Rumpus, Points in Case, Unbound Worlds, and the Chicago Reader online. His essays also appearin the anthologies Body Language (Catapult, 2022), Inaka: Portraits of Life in Rural Japan (Camphor Press, 2020), and Down the Block: An Anthology of City Life (Metrolingua, 2009).

Austin grew up in the Carolinas and is a graduate of William & Mary and the University of Chicago. He spent two years on the Japanese island of Tsushima, sixteen years in Chicago, and now lives with his wife and son outside Houston where he works as an English teacher.