Benjamin Rutherfurd

Ben Rutherfurd is a Marion L. Brittain Postdoctoral Fellow in the Writing and Communication Program at the Georgia Institute of Technology. He received his PhD in English and Creative Writing from the University of Georgia, where he also served as Graduate Editor for The Georgia Review. He is currently at work on a creative-critical manuscript about wildfire in California that explores the convergence of documentary poetry and new media within the context of the climate crisis. His writing has appeared in places such as The Routledge Companion to Ecopoetics, Terrain.org, and The Georgia Review.

Ben has over a decade of experience teaching creative writing workshops and first-year composition in the state of Georgia. He has also served in several editorial positions at places such as Under a Warm Green Linden, The Georgia Review, and Boston Review.