Ben Sandman’s fiction has been published in Story, Joyland, Stirring, and Stone Canoe, among others, and his criticism has appeared in The Nation, The New Republic, and Los Angeles Review of Books, among others. 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 was born and raised in the Catskills in upstate New York and lives in Decatur, Georgia.