Cara Benson

I am the author of the memoir An Armsfull of Birds: A Personal Field Guide to Love, Loss, and Commitment. My stories, essays, and poems have been published in The New York Times, Huffington Post, Boston Review, Orion, Sierra, The Brooklyn Rail, Fence, Hobart, Identity Theory, Poetry Society of America, and selected for Best American Poetry. My interviews and reviews at The Los Angeles Review of Books, Electric Literature, Terrain, Full Stop, and elsewhere. My first book, (made), is a collection of prose poems praised by The Huffington Post and The Brooklyn Rail. 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 taught poetry in a NY State correctional facility for eight years.