Dr. Joshua Bennett (External Editor)
Joshua Bennett is a Professor of English and Creative Writing at Dartmouth College. He is the author of four books of poetry and criticism: The Sobbing School (Penguin, 2016)-winner of the National Poetry Series and a finalist for an NAACP Image Award-as well as Being Property Once Myself (Harvard University Press, 2020), Owed (Penguin, 2020), and The Study of Human Life (Penguin, 2022). Earlier this year, he received a Guggenheim Fellowship and a Whiting Award for Poetry and Nonfiction.
Joshua earned his Ph.D. in English from Princeton University, and an M.A. in Theatre and Performance Studies from the University of Warwick, where he was a Marshall Scholar. He has recited his original works at the Sundance Film Festival, the NAACP Image Awards, and President Obama's Evening of Poetry and Music at the White House. He has also performed and taught creative writing workshops at hundreds of middle schools, high schools, colleges, and universities across the United States, as well as in the U.K. and South Africa.
Joshua has received fellowships from the National Endowment for the Arts, MIT, and the Society of Fellows at Harvard University. His writing has been published in Best American Poetry, The New York Times, The Paris Review, Poetry Magazine, and elsewhere. Alongside his friend and colleague, Jesse McCarthy, he is the founding co-editor of Minor Notes, a Penguin Classics book series dedicated to minor poets within the black expressive tradition. He lives in Massachusetts with his wife and son, Pam and August, and their family dog, Apollo 5.
