Darryl J. Benjamin Member Member since 2011

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Darryl J. Benjamin is a prize-winning writer and educator whose essay “In Praise of the Unsteady Woman” won First Prize in nonfiction in the 2026 Porter Fleming Literary Competition. His fiction has appeared or is forthcoming in The Missouri Review, JMWW, Flash Frog, All Worlds Wayfarer, The Hopper, and Saw Palm. His creative nonfiction “Loitering in Twilight” appeared in Astrolabe, and his craft essay “Framing Catastrophe in the First Two Paragraphs” appeared in CRAFT. “The Art of Falling Water” was a finalist for the 2025 Missouri Review Editors’ Prize, and he has twice been nominated for Best New American Voices. He is coauthor of Farm to Table (Chelsea Green Publishing) and is developing The Extra Room, a feature screenplay. He has more than a decade of college teaching and holds an MFA in Writing from Vermont College of Fine Arts and a BA in English Literature from McGill University. He lives in Port St. Lucie, Florida.

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