Chanelle Benz

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Chanelle Benz
LanguageEnglish
NationalityBritish
Alma materSyracuse University
Notable works
  • The Man Who Shot Out My Eye is Dead, The Gone Dead

Chanelle Benz is a British American author and associate professor of English at Syracuse University in Syracuse, New York.[1] She is known for her short story collection The Man Who Shot Out My Eye is Dead (2017) and her novel The Gone Dead (2019).

Early life and education[edit]

Benz was born in London to English and Antiguan parents.[1] Benz lived in London until the age of 7, when her family moved to New Jersey, then Sunset, Utah, and lastly, Centreville, Virginia.[2]

Benz earned a bachelor's degree in acting from Boston University before earning an MFA in creative writing from Syracuse University in 2012.[3][4] At Syracuse University, she studied under the writer George Saunders.[2][1]

Career[edit]

Benz published her first book, a short story collection titled The Man Who Shot Out My Eye Is Dead in 2017.[1][5][6] In 2019, Benz published her first novel, The Gone Dead, about a woman who returns to her childhood home in the Mississippi Delta and uncovers information regarding the death of her father.[7][1][2] The novel was reviewed positively in The New York Times[8] and The Washington Post.[9]

Both books were published by Ecco Press, an imprint of HarperCollins.[10][11]

Benz has also published works in Granta, The New York Times, Guernica, Fence, and The American Reader, among other publications.[12]

Sources[edit]

  1. ^ a b c d e "English Professor Pens Novel About Race, Justice and Memory - Syracuse.edu". www.syracuse.edu. Retrieved 2023-03-03.
  2. ^ a b c Schaub, Michael (2017-04-21). "Meet Chanelle Benz, whose debut book is 'The Man Who Shot Out My Eye Is Dead'". Los Angeles Times. Retrieved 2023-03-06.
  3. ^ "Chanelle Benz". College of Arts & Sciences at Syracuse University. Retrieved 2023-03-06.
  4. ^ Teich, Mitch; Canton, in; NY. "First Person: Writer Chanelle Benz on Mississippi in the '70s". NCPR. Retrieved 2023-03-06.
  5. ^ electricliterature (2017-01-19). "Chanelle Benz Is Rewriting History". Electric Literature. Retrieved 2023-03-06.
  6. ^ "'The Man Who Shot Out My Eye Is Dead': Stories worthy of that great title". Dallas News. 2017-01-13. Retrieved 2023-03-06.
  7. ^ Simon, Scott (June 22, 2019). "Chanelle Benz On 'The Gone Dead'". NPR. Retrieved March 6, 2023.
  8. ^ Sexton, Margaret Wilkerson (2019-06-20). "The Legacy of Slavery in Two Novels of the American South". The New York Times. ISSN 0362-4331. Retrieved 2023-03-06.
  9. ^ "Review | In 'The Gone Dead,' a woman's questions about her father's death reveal a town's racist history". Washington Post. ISSN 0190-8286. Retrieved 2023-03-06.
  10. ^ "Chanelle Benz". Harper Collins. Retrieved March 6, 2023.
  11. ^ "Prof. Chanelle Benz Lauded As 'Riveting New Voice in American Fiction' | Rhodes News". news.rhodes.edu. Retrieved 2023-03-06.
  12. ^ "SUNY Canton". www.canton.edu. Retrieved 2023-03-06.
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