Benjamin Schaefer

Benjamin Schaefer is a writer and editor from upstate New York. He studied literature and creative writing at Bard College and at the MFA program at the University of Arizona. His fiction and nonfiction have appeared in The Best American Nonrequired Reading, Electric Literature, Guernica, Literary Hub, Poets & Writers Magazine, and The Southern Review, and he is the recipient of fellowships and grants from the Elizabeth George Foundation, MacDowell, Millay Arts, the Vermont Studio Center, and the Virginia Center for the Creative Arts. He edited The Rainbow Issue of Fairy Tale Review, which was a finalist for the 2024 Lambda Literary Award for LGBTQ+ Anthology.