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Ben Tanzer

Ben Tanzer is the author of the books Orphans, which won the 24th Annual Midwest Book Award in Fantasy/SciFi/Horror/Paranormal and a Bronze medal in the Science Fiction category at the 2015 IPPY Awards, Lost in Space, which received an Honorable Mention in the Chicago Writers Association 2014 Book Awards Traditional Non-Fiction category, and now The New York Stories, among others. He has also contributed to Punk Planet, Clamor, and Men’s Health, serves as Senior Director, Acquisitions for Curbside Splendor, and can be found online at This Blog Will Change Your Life.

Poetry, Rumpus Original

Ben Tanzer

Aug 30, 2015

The Sunday Rumpus Interview: Jonathan Travelstead

I try to…consider the writing process as seriously as I do entering a house with black smoke puffing from its eaves.
Rumpus Original

Ben Tanzer

Jun 21, 2015

The Sunday Rumpus Essay: There Will Be Blood

It is 1980, I am twelve years old, and there is so much blood.
Rumpus Original

Ben Tanzer

Jul 6, 2014

The Sunday Rumpus Essay: End of Story

The cool story would be how we went home that night, dropped everything, booked our trip, and were soon having a threesome…under the ocean spray that endlessly cascades over San Sebastian’s horseshoe beachfront. But that isn’t what happened.
Rumpus Original

Ben Tanzer

Apr 7, 2013

The Sunday Rumpus Essay: Race Matters

You’re an enlightened, New World kind of dad–you don’t expect your son to be some macho athlete. If only he would run the dash…