Aaron Hamburger (born 1973) is an American writer best known for his short story collection The View from Stalin's Head (2004) and novels Faith for Beginners (2005) and Nirvana Is Here (2019).

Born in Detroit, Michigan, Hamburger went to college at the University of Michigan (BA 1995) and then spent a year abroad teaching English in Prague, Czech Republic, the setting for his first book of stories, primarily about the lives of expatriates after the end of the Cold War.

His next book, Faith for Beginners, is a novel about a dysfunctional family vacation in Jerusalem, and was nominated for a Lambda Literary Award.

He was awarded the 2023 Jim Duggins, PhD Outstanding Mid-Career Novelist Prize by Lambda Literary.

Hamburger's writing has appeared in The New York Times,[3] The Washington Post,[4] The Chicago Tribune, Tin House,[5] O, the Oprah Magazine, Subtropics, Crazyhorse,[6] Boulevard, Tablet, The Village Voice,[7] Out, Poets and Writers, Details, Nerve,[8] and Time Out New York.