Bennett Sims
Bennett Sims was born and raised in Baton Rouge, Louisiana. He is the author of the story collection Other Minds and Other Stories (2023), the novel A Questionable Shape (2013), which received the Bard Fiction Prize and was a finalist for The Believer Book Award, and the story collection White Dialogues (2017), winner of the Rome Prize for Literature 2018-19 and named a best book of 2017 by Bookforum . He is a recipient of a Michener-Copernicus Society Fellowship. His fiction has appeared in A...See more
Bennett Sims was born and raised in Baton Rouge, Louisiana. He is the author of the story collection Other Minds and Other Stories (2023), the novel A Questionable Shape (2013), which received the Bard Fiction Prize and was a finalist for The Believer Book Award, and the story collection White Dialogues (2017), winner of the Rome Prize for Literature 2018-19 and named a best book of 2017 by Bookforum . He is a recipient of a Michener-Copernicus Society Fellowship. His fiction has appeared in A Public Space , Conjunctions , Electric Literature , Tin House , and Zoetrope: All-Story , as well as in the Pushcart Prize Anthology. He has taught at Bard College, Grinnell College, and the Iowa Writers' Workshop. See less
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