Benjamin Reid Williams

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