Benjamin Nugent's nonfiction has appeared in "The New York Times", "The Washington Post", "Time", and "n+"1, and his fiction has appeared in "Tin House". He holds an MFA in fiction from the Iowa Writers' Workshop, where he was an Iowa Arts fellow. Director of Creative Writing at Southern New Hampshire University, he teaches fiction and nonfiction in its MFA and undergraduate programs. He grew up in Amherst, Massachusetts.