Austin Gilkeson

Austin is available for book signings and school visits!

It’s become obligatory to start any year-end review by noting that 2017 was a gaping hell pit of a year and it was.

I have a new essay up at Tor.com, about the gods and spirits in the films of Hayao Miyazaki, their often fraught relationship with mankind, and their uneasy overlap with Japanese Shintoism and Buddhism– “Gods and Spirits (….and Whatever Totoro Is): Explor…

art by J.

I’m pleased to announce that I have resumed my Tolkien Correspondent duties, this time for the venerable science fiction and fantasy publisher Tor.com.

Watazumi Shrine, Toyotama-town, Tsushima I have a new essay at Catapult called “Teshima: On Hearing Loss, My Son, and the Sea“.

image courtesy of Jason Longo My final dispatch from Middle-earth as The Toast‘s Tolkien Correspondent was published yesterday: “How To Tell If You Are In A J.R.R.

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Tolkien the Metal, by J.

I am delighted to announce that I have signed with a literary agent, the awesome Maria Vicente of P.S.