About
[image error]Ben Bush is a graduate of the Iowa Writers’ Workshop, where he received a Truman Capote Fellowship and a Teaching Writing Fellowship. He is currently managing editor at The Organist podcast from McSweeney’s / KCRW (NPR-LA) and teaches at the University of Iowa.
His fiction has appeared or is forthcoming in The Iowa Review, The Literary Review, The Dogs (exhibition catalog), Yeti, KQED Writers’ Block, and The Fanzine.
He has received a work-study scholarship from Key West Literary Seminars and a Sozopol Fiction Fellowship. He currently serves as a member of the board of directors of the Center for Afrofuturist Studies.
His non-fiction has appeared or is forthcoming in Salon, Bookforum, The Believer, Flavorwire, Los Angeles Review of Books, Poets & Writers, San Francisco Chronicle, KCRW’s The Organist podcast, and Conversations with William T. Vollmann (University of Mississippi Press).
He ran the Hoyt Commission Reading Series from 2010-2014, which included Rachel Kushner, Ariana Reines, Joshua Cohen, John Haskell, Matthew Derby, Stacey Levine, Monica Youn, Camden Joy / Tom Adelman, Lonely Christopher, Trinie Dalton, Louis Chude-Sokei, and musician Brian Dewan.
email: benjaminhbush at gmail dot com
