I’ll be teaching an 8-week generative writing class, “Story Factory,” for the Iowa Summer Writing festival Oct. 10-Nov. 28, Monday nights. I’lll also be teaching a weekend workshop on using third person point of view for ISWF the weekend of October 14-16.
Word for Word theater, at Z Space in San Francisco, will perform my story “Eternal Love,” on September 4. This will be the first time my story has been performed with neurodiverse actors. The story is part of my novel, … Continue reading →
I’m thrilled to be joining the MFA program at SUNY Stony Brook as a Visiting Associate Professor, part-time. You can find out more about the program here. https://www.stonybrook.edu/southampton/mfa/cwl/
The Yale Review published a new story, “Messengers,” in the summer 2022 issue. You can read the story here.
The New Order on List of Best Books of 2018 by PopMatters
29 Dec 2018
“She articulates our new normal in terms both empathetic and terrifying….Bender unveils the complex set of motives that caused America to impale itself.” You can read the whole review by Scott Poole here.