Ben Marcus

Ben Marcus is the author of the novels Notable American Women and The Flame Alphabet, and several collections of fiction including  The Age of Wire and String, Leaving the Sea, and Notes from the Fog. His stories, essays, and reviews have appeared in Harper’s, The New Yorker, Granta, The Paris Review, Conjunctions, Bomb, the Virginia Quarterly Review, and elsewhere. He is the editor of The Anchor Book of New American Short Stories and New American stories. Marcus' many honors include the Berlin Prize, a Guggenheim fellowship, a Whiting Writers Award, a Creative Capital Award, a National Endowment for the Arts Fellowship in fiction, a literature award from the American Academy of Arts and Letters, and three Pushcart Prizes. Since 2000 he has taught on the faculty at Columbia University’s School of the Arts.