Aaron Gilbreath has written essays and articles for Harper's, The New York Times, Paris Review, The Believer, Kenyon Review, Oxford American, Vice, The Threepenny Review, Brick, The Morning News and Longreads, and wrote the musical appendix to The Oxford Companion to Sugar and Sweets. Future Tense published his chapbook A Secondary Landscape, his ebook This Is: Essays on Jazz came out in 2015.