Cara Benson

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, Terrain, 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 my memoir An Armsfull of Birds: A Field Guide to Love, Loss, and Commitment will be published in Spring 2026 with HCI Books.