I’m Aaron Salzman, a many-times-published short story writer working hard to traditionally publish my first novel.

My goal is to tell compelling, exciting stories, introduce unforgettable characters, and to one day, see my narratives come to life on the screen.

Recent Publications

A Town Without Sidewalks follows a small-town jack-of-all-trades as he unwittingly stumbles upon a murder coverup.

It can be found in The Bangalore Review.

The Fox and the Crow Cross a Shallow Bowl follows two young outlaws who flee the law through a Mexican desert, without enough water between them to survive. Privately, they each conclude they must kill the other…

It can be found in Quagmire Literary Magazine’s Best of 2024.

Coming Soon

Your Home or Theirs follows a young man who, as an initiation ritual in a remote northern Canadian town, must exterminate mice from an old house.

It will be found in the Artful Dodge Print Addition, 2024.

Nimblefoot is a book review that covers the Robert Drewe novel of the same name.

It will be found in Antipodes, 2024.


Journalism

From 2022-2023, I commissioned and oversaw the publication of over fifty articles as the director of The Sun Star. My most read article summarizes the UAF Graduate Student Unionization effort, which can be read here.