Austin Gilkeson

About The Author

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.

Books by Austin Gilkeson

Maggie the Dread (A Novel)
By Austin Gilkeson
The end is nigh. Bring snacks!

When Sebastian accidentally releases a long-imprisoned vampire-goddess after a rough day at school, he sets off a chain of events that will result in the destruction of reality as he knows it, unless he can find a way to stop it.

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