Walter Benjamin Thompson received his M.F.A. in Fiction from the University of Wisconsin in 2008, and was the 2014 Halls Emerging Artist Fellow at the Wisconsin Institute for Creative Writing. He has over ten years' experience in the teaching of writing and literature at both the high school and college levels. His fiction has recently appeared in Slush Pile Magazine, F(r)iction, and American Short Fiction. He is at work on a novel, tentatively titled The Midnight Girl's Revenge. He served as the 2016-17 George Bennett Fellow at Phillips Exeter Academy. He lives in Nashville, his hometown, with his wife, daughter, dog, and cat.
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