Ben Black is a fiction editor at Agni magazine. He has an MFA from San Francisco State University. His work has been published in Best Microfiction, Southampton Review, New American Writing, Harpur Palate, The Los Angeles Review, Wigleaf, and other journals. His stories have been finalists for the Calvino Prize, the Omnidawn Fabulist Fiction Chapbook Contest, the Fairy Tale Review Award in Prose, and the Prairie Schooner Book Award. benpblack@gmail.com
Ham Sorrow in Hunger Mountain, February 2024
“Crossing East” in Write Yourself Out of a Corner: 100 Exercises to Unlock Creativity, April 2023
“A Haunting” republished in Best Microfiction 2022
A Haunting in Wigleaf, October 2021
His Honor in prose.onl, October 2021
Blue republished in Short Edition, June 2021
A Pestilence in World Literature Today, January 2021
Kafka’s Mustache in Quarterly West, March 2018
“Loverboy” in The Southampton Review, June 2016
“The Wall” in Cream City Review, January 2016
“Blue” in The Los Angeles Review, February 2015
“A Bird in the House” performed on the Parnassus Review podcast, May 2014
(story starts at 56:43)
“Describing the Scenery” in Harpur Palate, February 2014
“Let’s Get Run Over” in Harpur Palate, February 2014
“The Wolves” republished in Phone Fiction, 2013
–recorded here: https://s3.amazonaws.com/phone-fiction-prod/public/audio/PhoneFiction.com-BenBlack-TheWolves-ReadByScottMerrill.mp3
“The Woodcutter’s Wife” in Smokelong Quarterly, April 2013
interview in Smokelong
“The Paintings of the Suicide Machine” in fiction365, January 2013
Performed by Margarita Galindo at Action Fiction! in San Francisco:
“The City of the Dead” in theNewerYork, September 2012
“The Wolves” in New American Writing, June 2012
“A Bird in the House” in Identity Theory, May 2012
“We Are All Wearing Jackets” in fiction365, April 2012
Performed by Mark Plutanski at Action Fiction!
“The Sculpture Garden” in fiction365, January 2012
“Perseverance” in fiore, Summer 2008
Ben Black 