Benjamin Vogt

Benjamin Vogt is a poet and essayist from Lincoln, Nebraska. He was born in Oklahoma in 1976, and has lived in Minnesota, Indiana, Ohio, and England. Vogt has been nominated for the Pushcart Prize, received a grant from the Dorothy Sargent Rosenberg Memorial Fund, and the Louise VanSickle Fellowship. His writing has appeared in literary journals such as "Crab Orchard Review", "Diagram", "Ellipis", "Fugue", "Puerto del Sol", and "Verse Daily". A chapbook of poems, "Indelible Marks", is also available (Pudding House, 2004).

Vogt has a BFA from the University of Evansville and an MFA from Ohio State University.

Current projects are a poetry collection entitled "Afterimage", which explores family photographs from the last two centuries (focusing on the Great Plains and the Midwest), and "Yatushashi, or How a Garden Grows", an environmental memoir on gardening with his mother as a child.

He is currently pursuing a Ph.D. at the University of Nebraska-Lincoln where he teaches writing and literature.