Chanelle Benz

ABOUT

Chanelle Benz has published work in Granta, Guernica, The New York Times, Electric Literature, The Harvard Review, The American Reader, Fence, and is the recipient of an O. Henry Prize. Her story collection The Man Who Shot Out My Eye Is Dead was named a Best Book of 2017 by The San Francisco Chronicle and one of Electric Literature’s 15 Best Short Story Collections of 2017. It was also shortlisted for the 2018 Saroyan Prize and longlisted for the 2018 PEN/Robert Bingham Prize for Debut Fiction and the 2017 Story Prize. Her novel The Gone Dead was published by Ecco/HarperCollins and was a New York Times Book Review Editor’s Choice and a Tonight Show Summer Reads Finalist. The book was longlisted for the 2020 PEN/Hemingway Award for Debut Novel and the 2019 Center for Fiction First Novel Prize. It was also named a best new book of the summer by O, The Oprah Magazine, Time, Southern Living, and Nylon. She teaches in the MFA Creative Writing Program at Syracuse University.