Amy Benson

Lecturer

Amy Benson received a BS in biology from Bowling Green State University and an MFA from the University of Alabama.  Her book, The Sparkling-Eyed Boy (Houghton Mifflin 2004), was chosen by Ted Conover as the 2003 Katherine Bakeless Nason Prize winner in creative nonfiction, sponsored by Bread Loaf Writer's Conference.  She has received fellowships from Bread Loaf and Ledig House International Writers Residency.  Her poetry and prose has appeared in journals such as Fourth Genre, River Teeth, Quarterly West, Pleiades, New Orleans Review, Connecticut Review, Sonora Review, and River Styx.