Benjamin Nugent

Biography

Benjamin Nugent's nonfiction has appeared in The New York Times, The Washington Post, Time, and n+1, and his fiction has appeared in Tin House. His first novel, Good Kids, will be published by Scribner in 2013. American Nerd: The Story of My People, published by Scribner in 2008, is a combination of journalism and memoir. He holds an MFA in fiction from the Iowa Writers' Workshop, where he was an Iowa Arts fellow. Director of Creative Writing at Southern New Hampshire University, he teaches fiction and nonfiction in its MFA and undergraduate programs. He grew up in Amherst, Massachusetts.