Cara Benson

Poet, Fiction Writer, Creative Nonfiction Writer

US

Author's Bio

My stories, essays, and poems have been published in The New York Times, Boston Review, Orion Magazine, Best American Poetry, The Brooklyn Rail, Fence, Hobart, Identity Theory, Poetry Society of America, and many other wonderful venues. My interviews and reviews at Electric Literature, Bookslut, 3:AM, Full Stop, and elsewhere. My first book, (made), is a hybrid micro prose/poem collection and was published by the Toronto indie publisher Book*hug. I have received a New York Foundation for the Arts Fellowship and a bpNichol Prize. I wrote a series of posts on walking in the woods for the Best American Poetry website and am at work on book-length narrative nonfiction.

Literary agent: 
Jennifer Thompson of Nordlyset Literary Agency

Publications & Prizes

Creative Nonfiction

Chapbook:
The Secret of Milk (Eohippus Labs, 2011)
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Poetry Society of America

Fiction

Journals: ,
Formercactus
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Hobart
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Identity Theory
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Jellyfish Review
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Vol. 1 Brooklyn

Poetry

Anthology:
Best American Poetry (Scribner, 2011)
Books:
(made) (BookThug, 2010)
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Belladonna Elders Series #7 w/ Anne Waldman & Jayne Cortez (Belladonna Books, 2009)
Chapbooks:
Let Me Be Clear (Ugly Duckling Presse, 2016)
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spreek (Dusie Press, 2010)
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Quantum Chaos and Poems: A Manifest(o)ation (BookThug, 2007)
Journals:
88: A Journal of Contemporary American Poetry
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Academy of American Poets Poem-a-Day
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Fence
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Forklift, Ohio
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New York Times
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Sentence
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Prizes won: 

Best American Poetry; New York Foundation for the Arts Fellowship in Literature; bp Nichol Chapbook Award

More Information

Gives readings: 
Yes
Travels for readings: 
Yes
Fluent in: 
English
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Last update: Jan 05, 2024