Benjamin Knox (born 1982 in Northumberland) is a British-Irish writer and folklorist. He studied archaeology at the University of York and completed an MPhil in Irish folklore at University College Dublin, researching mortuary landscapes along the Atlantic seaboard. Before turning to fiction, he worked as a museum registrar, a lighthouse caretaker on Berneray, and a cataloger of parish archives in County Clare. His short fiction has appeared in small-press journals and anthologies, and he has taught community workshops on field recording and memory studies. He serves as an advisor to a volunteer graveyard survey in Munster. Knox lives in Galway with a sound engineer and an elderly greyhound.
