Aaron Alford's writing has appeared in Oxford American, Memoir, Hobart Online, Bellingham Review, River Teeth, The Los Angeles Review, and elsewhere. He earned a Ph.D. in English (creative writing: nonfiction) at Texas Tech University, where he taught courses in literature, creative writing, and first-year writing. He served on the mastheads of several literary magazines, including a stint as Managing Editor of Southern Humanities Review at Auburn University.

He covers renewable fuels markets as a journalist for Oil Price Information Service (OPIS).