The Wilding received a starred review from Publishers Weekly. "A contemporary Deliverance."

Ben scaled and hammocked the night in a 250-ft old growth Douglas fir. His article about it will appear in The Wall Street Journal this September.

Ben has a short story -- called "James Franco" -- that will appear in the September issue of Esquire.

Ben has an article in the June issue of Outside magazine called "Never Been to Disneyland."

Ben reads from his story -- "Heart of a Bear" -- published in the March/April issue of Orion. Download the podcast here.

USA Today has listed the illustrated adaptation of Refresh, Refresh as one of the top ten comics/graphic novels of the year.

In February of 2011 filmmaker James Ponsoldt will begin filming "Refresh, Refresh" on-site in Central Oregon

Dodge dropped off a one-ton Ram at Ben's house. He writes about the experience in the July issue of Esquire. Click here to read the article.

"The Tree" New Stories from the Midwest, Ohio University Press, 2010

"Impact" Hint Fiction, edited by Robert Smartwood. W.W. Norton, 2010

"The Tree" Contemporary American Flash Fiction, edited by Todd James Pierce & Ryan Van Cleave, MacAdam/Cage  2010

"Dial Tone" American Fantastic Tales: Terror and the Uncanny from the 1940s Until Now, edited by Peter Straub, Library of America, 2009

"Refresh, Refresh" in Home of the Brave: Stories in Uniform, edited by Jeffery Hess. Press 53. 2009.

"Refresh, Refresh" You Must Be This Tall To Ride:  Stories On Growing Up and
Essays by the People Who Wrote Them, ed. B.J. Hollars, Writers Digest Books, 2009

"Refresh, Refresh" Best of the Pushcart Prize, ed. Bill Henderson. 2009.

"Unearthed" Poe's Children, Random House, ed. Peter Straub, 2008

"Swans" Surreal South, Press 53, eds. Laura and Pinckney Benedict, 2008

"Refresh, Refresh" Selected Shorts: Wartime Lives. 2007. An audio anthology featuring actors reading such war fiction as Tim O'Brien's "The Things They Carried." To purchase the album, click here.

"Refresh, Refresh" The Pushcart Prize XXXI: Best of the Small Presses, ed. Bill Henderson

"Refresh, Refresh" Best American Short Stories 2006, ed. Ann Patchett, Houghton Mifflin

"The Worst University Ever" Sudden Stories, ed. Dinty Moore, Mammoth Books, 2003