Ben Tanzer

Emmy-award winner Ben Tanzer's acclaimed work includes the short story collection Upstate , the science fiction novel Orphans and the essay collections Lost in Space and Be Cool . Ben is a storySouth and Pushcart nominee, a finalist for the Annual National Indie Excellence and Eric Hoffer Book Awards, a winner of the Devil's Kitchen Literary Festival Nonfiction Prose Award and a Midwest Book Award. He also received an Honorable Mention at the Chicago Writers Association Book Awards for...See more

Emmy-award winner Ben Tanzer's acclaimed work includes the short story collection Upstate , the science fiction novel Orphans and the essay collections Lost in Space and Be Cool . Ben is a storySouth and Pushcart nominee, a finalist for the Annual National Indie Excellence and Eric Hoffer Book Awards, a winner of the Devil's Kitchen Literary Festival Nonfiction Prose Award and a Midwest Book Award. He also received an Honorable Mention at the Chicago Writers Association Book Awards for Traditional Non-Fiction and a Bronze Medal from the Independent Publisher Book Awards. He's written for Hemispheres , Punk Planet , Men's Health , and The Arrow , AARP's GenX newsletter. His latest novel, The Missing , was released in March 2024. Ben lives in Chicago with his family. See less