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Ben Bush is a graduate of the Iowa Writers' Workshop, a 2017-2018 Fulbright Fellow to Bulgaria, and an incoming Dornsife Fellow at the University of Southern California creative writing PhD program.

His fiction has appeared in The Iowa Review, The Literary Review, Yeti, The Fanzine, and Vol. 1 Brooklyn. His non-fiction and interviews have appeared in Salon, Bookforum, The Believer, Flavorwire, Los Angeles Review of Books, Poets & Writers, San Francisco Chronicle, Alternet, Bitch, and Conversations with William T. Vollmann (University of Mississippi Press).

He has received fellowships and scholarships from the Truman Capote Foundation, Vermont Studio Center, Wesleyan Writers Conference, Kimmel Harding Nelson, Poets & Writers / the New York St ...more

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	Whatcha Mean, What's a Zine? by Mark Todd (Illustrator), Esther Pearl Watson, Ben Bush (Goodreads Author) (Contributor) 3.79 avg rating — 612 ratings — published 2006 — 4 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Awkward Two by Jeffrey Dinsmore (Goodreads Author), Clay McLeod Chapman (Goodreads Author) (Editor), Kyle Jarrow (Editor) 4.33 avg rating — 9 ratings — published 2010 — 6 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Iowa Review 47.2 (Fall 2017) by Harilaos Stecopoulos (Editor), T. Coraghessan Boyle (Goodreads Author), Margot Livesey (Goodreads Author) really liked it 4.00 avg rating — 3 ratings — 2 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Yeti 13 by Mike McGonigal (Goodreads Author) (Editor), Ben Bush (Goodreads Author) 3.67 avg rating — 3 ratings — published 2012	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	The Literary Review: Artificial Intelligence by The Literary Review, Minna Zallman Proctor (Editor), Okla Elliott it was amazing 5.00 avg rating — 1 rating — published 2013 — 2 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars

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“I have perceived that in all cases man must eventually lower, or at least shift, his conceit of attainable felicity; not placing it anywhere in the intellect or the fancy; but in the wife, the heart, the bed, the table, the saddle, the fire-side, the country.”
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