About

Benjamin Woodard (that’s me) lives in Connecticut and holds an MFA in writing from Vermont College of Fine Arts. He is editor-in-chief at Atlas and Alice Literary Magazine and frequently contributes literary criticism to Publishers Weekly, Kenyon Review Online, Words Without Borders, and other venues. He teaches English at a handful of colleges and universities, was a Visiting Assistant Professor of Creative Writing at Trinity College, is a member of the National Book Critics Circle, and was a 2017 finalist for SmokeLong Quarterly’s Kathy Fish Fellowship. For many years, he served as translations editor at Numéro Cinq, a literary journal run by author Douglas Glover. His writing can be found in the anthologies Best Microfiction 2019 and Miscellany: Essays by Young(ish) American Voices. His fiction has been widely published and was nominated for Best Small Fictions in 2018. He also co-wrote the award-winning sci-fi feature film, Circuit, which was released in 2009.

Reach him at ben(dot)j(dot)woodard(at)gmail(dot)com, or on Twitter at @woodardwriter.