Benjamin Garcia

Benjamin Garcia 's first collection of poems, Thrown in the Throat , was selected for the 2019 National Poetry Series by Kazim Ali. He is a 2019 Lambda Literary Fellow, was the 2017 Latinx Scholar at the Frost Place, and was a 2018 CantoMundo Fellow at the Palm Beach Poetry Festival. His work has recently appeared or is forthcoming in American Poetry Review , Best New Poets 2018 , Crazyhorse , Kenyon Review , The Missouri Review , and New England Review . Garcia received his MFA from Cornell...See more

Benjamin Garcia 's first collection of poems, Thrown in the Throat , was selected for the 2019 National Poetry Series by Kazim Ali. He is a 2019 Lambda Literary Fellow, was the 2017 Latinx Scholar at the Frost Place, and was a 2018 CantoMundo Fellow at the Palm Beach Poetry Festival. His work has recently appeared or is forthcoming in American Poetry Review , Best New Poets 2018 , Crazyhorse , Kenyon Review , The Missouri Review , and New England Review . Garcia received his MFA from Cornell University and currently works as a sexual health and harm reduction educator in the Finger Lakes region of New York. See less