Ben Rogers lives in Reno, Nevada with his wife and daughters. He is a past recipient of a Nevada Arts Council Fellowship and two Sierra Arts Foundation Literary Artist Endowment Grants for his fiction. His short stories and essays have appeared in PANK, Timothy McSweeney's Internet Tendency, The Portland Review, The Nevada Review, Wag's Revue, Dark Sky Magazine, and the parenthood-themed anthology Mamas and Papas. He is also the lead author of Nanotechnology: Understanding Small Systems (CRC Press), the first-ever comprehensive college textbook on nanotechnology, now in its second edition.