Benjamin Samuel
Instructor
About Benjamin
Benjamin Samuel is the co-editor of Electric Literature, an independent digital publisher based in Brooklyn, and its weekly fiction magazine, Recommended Reading. Electric Literature was the recipient of the National Book Foundation’s 2011 Innovations in Reading Prize; has been recognized by Best American Short Stories, the Pen/O’Henry Prize, and Best American Non-Required Reading; and was called a "refreshingly bold act of optimism" by The Washington Post. Benjamin's writing has appeared in McSweeney's Internet Tendency, The Huffington Post, The New York Daily News, and Paper Dreams: Writers and Editors on the American Literary Magazine, a forthcoming anthology from Atticus Books, and he's been featured in The LA Times, The Rumpus, Storyboard, Poets & Writers, and Huffington. He has an MFA from Brooklyn College.