About the Author

Hi! My name is Ben, and I’m a writer.

These bios always seem to start with education, so let’s not buck the trend. I hold a B.A. from Columbia University (2011) and an M.F.A. in Fiction & Screenwriting from the Michener Center for Writers at the University of Texas, Austin (2014).

In a past life, I used to cobble rent money by writing for the Interwebs. I’ve covered Media & Culture for Vanity Fair, Observer, The A.V. Club, The Guardian, Playboy, and Thrillist. My short stories have appeared in Five Quarterly, Louisiana Literature, Bookanista, and a couple of other places. There’s a neat tab with links to most of it at the top.

I also write for television, which is fun. 

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This was our dog, Blue. 2014-2025. She lived a very good life and made me very happy every day. So, there she is. You can make her spin if you move your cursor over her. See you in the next one, Booboo.

(Look, it’s my site, all right? If we were still in the MySpace heydays, the backdrop of this entire thing would be a mosaic of photos of Blue with the  ‘Who Let The Dogs Out’ blaring the second you landed here.)