Ben Sandman was born and raised in the Catskills in upstate New York. His fiction has appeared in Story, Stirring, and Stone Canoe, among other journals, and he has contributed to Los Angeles Review of Books, The Rumpus, and Full Stop. A graduate of Vassar College, he earned an MFA from Oregon State University, where he was the recipient of a Provost’s Distinguished Graduate Fellowship. He is currently a PhD student in Creative Writing and Literature at the University of Cincinnati.