Justin Aeotherly is a storyteller whose work moves comfortably between prairie realism, speculative fiction, visual art, absurdism, and quiet humanism.
Working across prose, watercolour, sculpture, installation work, digital media, and experimental narrative forms, Aeotherly’s fiction often explores memory, recovery, gentleness, alienation, and the strange persistence of hope inside damaged systems and damaged people. His stories are populated by drifters, outsiders, working people, forgotten places, and individuals trying to reconnect with one another in worlds increasingly shaped by abstraction and distance.
Aeotherly’s work blends literary fiction, speculative ideas, dark humor, noir sensibilities, and a distinctly Canadian sense of place—where prairie truck stops, dying neon, university corridors, forgotten machinery, and moments of unexpected kindness coexist with technological unease and cultural fragmentation.
His shorter work has appeared in Spaceports & Spidersilk and Rat Creek Press, and he is also the author of the creative nonfiction title Serenity.
