Marina Benjamin

Marina Benjamin is the author of Insomnia, Rocket Dreams (short-listed for the Eugene Emme Award), Last Days in Babylon (long-listed for the Wingate Prize), and The Middlepause (finalist for the Arts Foundation’s Creative Nonfiction Award). She has also worked as a journalist, her pieces appearing in The Guardian, the Financial Times, The Independent, and other British newspapers, and she has served as arts editor at the New Statesman and deputy arts editor at the Evening Standard. She is currently a senior editor at the digital magazine Aeon.