Aaron Luc Shipp is an author based in Omaha, NE whose initial journalistic interests and affinity for the absurd helped form his style of efficient, evocative literature. After publishing his first novel, The Trismus Candidate, in 2011, Shipp contributed numerous pieces to the music blog The Heavy Duty and local art magazine, Found in Benson. Shipp later collected his short stories from the latter into his release Lost in Benson, released in 2012.
After an extended hiatus, Shipp created the short lived media outlet Contusion, from which he authored numerous political and cultural articles. Rediscovering his love for long form fiction, he began work on his second novel, Benson by Bonfire, in 2023.
“This is how they survive. You must know this. You're too smart not to know this.
They paint the world full of shadows... and then tell their children to stay close to the light. Their light. Their reasons, their judgments. Because in the darkness, there be dragons. But it isn't true. We can prove that it isn't true. In the dark, there is discovery, there is possibility, there is freedom in the dark once someone has illuminated it.”Captain Flint, Black Sails