Chanelle Benz

<p><strong>Chanelle Benz</strong> has published work in <em>Guernica</em>, Granta.com, <em>The New York Times</em>, Electric Literature, <em>The American Reader</em>, <em>Fence</em> and others, and is the recipient of an O. Henry Prize. Her story collection <em>The Man Who Shot Out My Eye Is Dead</em> was published in 2017 by Ecco/HarperCollins. It was named a Best Book of 2017 by <em>The San Francisco Chronicle</em> and one of Electric Literature’ s 15 Best Short Story Collections of 2017. It was also shortlisted for the 2018 Saroyan Prize and longlisted for the 2018 PEN/Robert Bingham Prize for Debut Fiction and the 2017 Story Prize. Her novel <em>The Gone Dead</em> was published by Ecco/HarperCollins in June 2019 and was a <em>New York Times Book Review</em> Editor’ s Choice and a Tonight Show Summer Reads Finalist. It was named a best new book of the summer by <em>O, The Oprah Magazine</em>, <em>Time</em>, <em>Southern Living</em>, and <em>Nylon</em>. She currently lives in Memphis where she teaches at Rhodes College.</p>