Aaron Hamburger

Aaron was awarded the 2023 Jim Duggins PhD Outstanding Mid-Career Novelist Prize by Lambda Literary. Judge Silas House wrote: “Throughout his career Aaron Hamburger has published beautifully written novels, short stories, essays, and journalism, and other kinds of writing that has always been craft-centered and language-driven while also expanding and complexifying notions of LGBTQ life. Hamburger’s work has been published in some of the country’s most respected journals, magazines and newspapers while his books have been widely acclaimed and awarded. He has also been an advocate of LGBTQ writing on the whole, whether mentoring emerging LGBTQ talent or helping to make queer literature more a part of the national conversation. Hamburger is a writer who has done much to celebrate both the written word and LGBTQ existence; his career as a writer and teacher is exemplary and is very deserving to be honored as a Duggins Prize recipient.” You can read an interview with Aaron here, as well as view his acceptance speech here.

Check out this beautiful interview that appeared in Times of Israel. Thank you, Avner Landes, for asking such great questions!

So grateful to NPR for featuring Hotel Cuba on NPR’s Book of the Day! https://www.npr.org/2023/05/10/1175353515/two-books-look-back-on-family-histories-and-secrets

Aaron speaks with Sacha Pfeiffer about Hotel Cuba for NPR’s All Things Considered. Click here to hear the conversation.

Read this new piece about solving a family mystery through fiction, the true story that inspired Hotel Cuba, in LitHub.

Read this insightful feature about the book, thanks to Shauna McIntyre and the Historical Novel Society.

Check out this personal essay on Hotel Cuba, Fiddler on the Roof, and shtetl life in Chicago Review of Books.

Read this interview with Aaron about the novel with Morgan Talty in Electric Literature

Check out this beautiful conversation in Tablet with novelist Elizabeth Graver about our new novels, Hotel Cuba and Kantika, inspired by our grandmothers’ stories and their Cuban connection.

See what happens when Mr. Fluff and I unbox the just-arrived finished copies of Hotel Cuba.