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Ben Berman Ghan
BIO
Biography

Ben Berman Ghan is the author of the novel The Years Shall Run Like Rabbits (Buckrider Books 2024)—Silver Winner of the Foreword INDIES Award for Science Fiction, and Longlisted for the 2025 Sunburst Award for Excellence in Canadian Literature of the Fantastic. He is also author the collection of stories What We See in the Smoke (Crowsnest Books 2019), as well as the novella Visitation Seeds (845 Press 2020), and the chapbook of poems: Cannibals, (Anstruther Press forthcoming 2025). His second collection of fiction: The Library Cosmic, is forthcoming with Buckrider Books for spring 2026. His prose, poetry, and criticism have previously been published in Clarkesworld Magazine, Strange Horizons, The Ex-Puritan, and The Ancillary Review of Books, and is forthcoming in such anthologies as Year’s Best Canadian Fantasy and Science Fiction, and Years Best Science Fiction on Earth. Ben is a PhD Candidate in English and creative writing at the University of Calgary where he lives with his partner and two cats. Find him at inkstainedwreck.ca

ADDRESS
City: Calgary, Province/Territory: Alberta
EMAIL
GENRE
Fiction, Poetry, Science Fiction, Fantasy, Surrealism, The New Weird, Speculative Literature
LANGUAGES
English
PUBLICATIONS
Publications
Title
What We See in the Smoke
Publisher
Crowsnest Books
Year
2019
Title
Visitation Seeds
Publisher
845 Press
Year
2020
Title
The Years Shall Run Like Rabbits
Publisher
Buckrider Books
Year
2024
LINKS
Links
http://www.instainedwreck.ca
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