About
Benjamin Vogt is the author of the poetry collection Afterimage (SFA University Press, spring 2012), as well as two chapbooks: Without Such Absence (Finishing Line Press) and Indelible Marks (Pudding House). Sleep, Creep, Leap, a collection of garden essays and images, has just been released in paperback and as an ebook.
Benjamin has a Ph.D. from the University of Nebraska-Lincoln and an M.F.A. from The Ohio State University. His nonfiction and poetry have been nominated for a Pushcart Prize, and he is the recipient of fellowships from the Vermont Studio Center, Ropewalk Writers Retreat, University of Nebraska, Ohio State University, and the Dorothy Sargent Rosenberg Memorial Fund. Benjamin's writing has appeared in over fifty journals, newspapers, anthologies, and textbooks, including American Life in Poetry, Crab Orchard Review, Diagram, Hayden’s Ferry Review, ISLE, Orion, Puerto del Sol, Sou’wester, Subtropics, The Sun, and Verse Daily.
He is also the author of the blog The Deep Middle where he rants about writing and his 1,500 foot native prairie garden. Photos from his garden are available on his Etsy shop. Benjamin lives in Lincoln, Nebraska with his wife, where he runs a native plant garden consulting and coaching business, Monarch Gardens.
[This website's header image, though blurred, is of my family's homestead in Corn, Oklahoma. All that's left of the 1894 buildings are the windmill--minus most of the blades--and a small barn, with 2-3 horse stalls, being twisted apart by wind (literally on its last leg, or post). A water line still pokes up through the wheat some fifty feet away where the house was, the latter having been burned and removed several years ago after cattle stumbled into the cellar and died. Turkey Red, my next memoir, will explore Oklahoma's defining legacy on our country and myself.]
Link here for a cv (pdf).
Link here for an author media kit (pdf).
Benjamin has a Ph.D. from the University of Nebraska-Lincoln and an M.F.A. from The Ohio State University. His nonfiction and poetry have been nominated for a Pushcart Prize, and he is the recipient of fellowships from the Vermont Studio Center, Ropewalk Writers Retreat, University of Nebraska, Ohio State University, and the Dorothy Sargent Rosenberg Memorial Fund. Benjamin's writing has appeared in over fifty journals, newspapers, anthologies, and textbooks, including American Life in Poetry, Crab Orchard Review, Diagram, Hayden’s Ferry Review, ISLE, Orion, Puerto del Sol, Sou’wester, Subtropics, The Sun, and Verse Daily.
He is also the author of the blog The Deep Middle where he rants about writing and his 1,500 foot native prairie garden. Photos from his garden are available on his Etsy shop. Benjamin lives in Lincoln, Nebraska with his wife, where he runs a native plant garden consulting and coaching business, Monarch Gardens.
[This website's header image, though blurred, is of my family's homestead in Corn, Oklahoma. All that's left of the 1894 buildings are the windmill--minus most of the blades--and a small barn, with 2-3 horse stalls, being twisted apart by wind (literally on its last leg, or post). A water line still pokes up through the wheat some fifty feet away where the house was, the latter having been burned and removed several years ago after cattle stumbled into the cellar and died. Turkey Red, my next memoir, will explore Oklahoma's defining legacy on our country and myself.]
Link here for a cv (pdf).
Link here for an author media kit (pdf).
