Ben Stroud

Ben Stroud is the author of the story collection Byzantium (Graywolf Press 2013), which won the 2013 Story Prize Spotlight Award and the Bread Loaf Writers’ Conference Bakeless Prize for fiction. His stories have been published in Harper’s, Zoetrope, VQR, Ploughshares, VICE, and One Story, among other places, and have been anthologized in Pushcart Prize XLII, New Stories from the South, and The Best American Mystery Stories. He is currently professor of English and creative writing at the University of Toledo.