Benjamin Carter is a Canadian-American writer based in Halifax, Nova Scotia. Born in 1985 in St. Paul, Minnesota, he studied sociology at Carleton University and completed an MFA at the University of British Columbia. His short fiction has appeared in The Fiddlehead, Prism International, and The New Quarterly, and he has received a Nova Scotia Talent Trust grant and a residency at the Banff Centre. Carter has worked as a hospital records clerk, a late-night barista, and a community radio producer, experiences that shape his interest in quiet logistics and place. He teaches part-time at NSCAD University and walks the harbor with a pocket notebook.
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