Ben Marcus
Ben Marcus is the author of several books, including The Flame Alphabet, The Age of Wire and String, and Notes from the Fog. His short stories and essays have appeared in Harper's, The New Yorker, The Paris Review, Granta, Best American Short Stories, The New York Times, McSweeney's, Conjunctions, and Tin House. He is the editor of New American Stories, and The Anchor Book of New American Short Stories. Among his honors are a Whiting Writers Award, a Creative Capital Award, an NEA Fellowship in fiction, a literature award from the American Academy of Arts and Letters, and three Pushcart Prizes. In 2013 he was a Guggenheim Fellow as well as a Berlin Prize Fellow at the American Academy in Berlin. Last year he was a Cullman Fellow at the New York Public Library. He has been a member of the faculty at Columbia since 2000.
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Writing professors Susan Bernofsky, Ben Marcus, and current adjunct Mitchell S. Jackson have all been named 2019-2020 Cullman Center Fellows by The New York Public Library’s Dorothy and Lewis B. Cullman Center for Scholars and Writers.