Amy Benson

Amy Benson is the author of Seven Years to Zero (Dzanc Books 2017), winner of the Dzanc Books Nonfiction Prize, and The Sparkling-Eyed Boy (Houghton Mifflin 2004), winner of the Katherine Bakeless Nason Prize in creative nonfiction, sponsored by Bread Loaf Writer’s Conference. The Sparkling-Eyed Boy was selected as an Elle magazine “Must Read Book” and a USAToday Top Ten Summer Reading book 2004. Recent work has appeared in journals such as Agni, BOMB, Boston Review, Gettysburg Review, Kenyon Review, New England Review, and The Writer's Chronicle. She currently teaches creative writing at Rhodes College in Memphis, and taught previously in the writing program at Columbia University. She has been a fellow at Bread Loaf and a resident at Ledig House International, and was the co-founder of the First Person Plural Reading Series in Harlem.