Education:
- Undergraduate:
- BA, English Language & Literature
- Reed College
Teaching and Editing Experience:
- Ben started writing for newspapers the same summer he graduated high school, and he has published numerous articles as both a freelancer and an editorial intern. He co-founded, edited, and wrote for The Grail, Reed College’s first student newsmagazine, while writing an undergraduate thesis on creative nonfiction. An essay he wrote about poetry was published in Expository Composition: Discovering Your Voice, a high school writing textbook. He has won poetry slams in five different states.
Ben’s work has appeared in the following periodicals:
- Southeast Examiner
- Reed Magazine
- The Reed College Quest
- The Grail
- The Martha’s Vineyard Times
- Martha’s Vineyard Magazine
- The Martha’s Vineyard Gazette
Favorite Poets — Writers:
- Joan Didion
- J.R.R. Tolkien
- Lloyd Alexander
- Roald Dahl
- Allen Ginsberg
- Charles Simic
- Pablo Neruda