Senior Fellow at the Attic Institute of Arts and Letters
Brian Benson is the author of Going Somewhere (Plume, 2014), and co-author, with Richard Brown, of This Is Not for You (OSU Press, 2021). Originally from the hinterlands of Wisconsin, Brian now lives in Portland, Oregon, where he teaches at the Attic Institute, facilitates free Write Around Portland workshops, and is a Writer in the Schools instructor. His short nonfiction has been published or is forthcoming in Hippocampus, Off Assignment, Oregon Humanities, The Sun, and Hunger Mountain, among other publications.