Ben Sandman is a writer whose fiction has been published in Story, Joyland, Stirring, and Stone Canoe, among others, and whose criticism has appeared in The Nation, The New Republic, Los Angeles Review of Books, and Full Stop. A graduate of Vassar College, he holds an MFA in fiction from Oregon State University and a PhD in Creative Writing and Literature from the University of Cincinnati. He teaches writing at Georgia Tech, where he is a Marion L. Brittain Postdoctoral Fellow.