Joshua Bennett

Joshua Bennett (editor) is a professor of English and creative writing at Dartmouth College. He is the author of The Sobbing School (Penguin, 2016), a finalist for an NAACP Image Award; Being Property Once Myself (Harvard, 2020); Owed (Penguin, 2020); and The Study of Human Life (Penguin, 2022). He has received fellowships and awards from the Guggenheim Foundation, the Whiting Foundation, the National Endowment for the Arts, and the Society of Fellows at Harvard University. His first work of narrative nonfiction is Spoken Word: A Cultural History (Knopf, 2023).