Ben’s poetry appears or is forthcoming in About Place Journal, American Literary Review, Cream City Review, EcoTheo Review, Faultline Journal of Arts and Letters, Grist, The Florida Review, The Journal, Meridian, Nimrod International Journal, The Normal School, North Dakota Quarterly, Saranac Review, Sonora Review, Tupelo Quarterly, West Trade Review, and elsewhere.

He is the editor of Equatorial Literary Magazineand holds an MFA in Creative Writing (Poetry) from Queens University of Charlotte, where he served as poetry editor for Qu Literary Magazine.