Aaron Welborn was born in Rex, Georgia, United States. A writer of fiction, he also occasionally writes articles about Southern History. Among these pieces is the only existing scholarship on the history of quail hunting in Alabama. He is the former editor of the Black Warrior Review, a journal of literature sponsored by the University of Alabama. After graduating from the University of Alabama, he relocated to St. Louis, where he currently works in the African American Studies department of Washington University. Welborn is now the reviews editor for Diagram Magazine, an online journal of literature and schematics. He has been married to the poet Braden Welborn since 2000.