Ben George, lecturer and Ecotone Editor
Kenan Hall 1273 | 910.962.7651 | georgeb@uncw.edu

Background MFA, University of Idaho, 2005 BA, Asbury College, 1999

Ben George is editor of Ecotone and a former editor at Tin House. Previously, while earning his MFA from the University of Idaho, he edited the magazine Fugue. He has worked for Random House and Harcourt as well, and stories and essays he has edited have won the Pushcart Prize and the O. Henry Prize, and have been reprinted in Best American Short Stories, Best American Mystery Stories, Best American Essays, Best American Nonrequired Reading, and New Stories from the South. His published interviews with writers such as Anita Desai, W. S. Merwin, Andrea Barrett, Margot Livesey, Peter Ho Davies, and Rick Bass appear or are forthcoming in Tin House, Fugue, and the Believer.   Publications The Book of Dads: Essays on the Joys, Perils, & Humiliations of Fatherhood, 2009   Ben George's work has been nominated for the Pushcart Prize and for Best New American Voices, and his stories, essays, and journalism have appeared in Ninth Letter, Tin House, Gulf Stream, Boise Weekly, and elsewhere.