Jeff Bender

Jeff Bender has led writing workshops out of Columbia University, Temple University and the University of Pennsylvania. He is a graduate of Columbia’s School of the Arts and an alum of the Norman Mailer Writers Colony, the Edward F. Albee Foundation and the Tin House Summer Writers Workshop. Excerpts from his first novel “The Weight” have appeared in or earned finalist honors from Guernica, Glimmer Train and The L magazines. www.jeffbender.net