Ben Doller

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Ben Doller (previously Doyle) was born in Warsaw, New York, in 1973. He completed his undergraduate education at the State University of New York at Oswego and West Virginia University, and he received an MFA from the Iowa Writers’ Workshop, where he was awarded a Teaching-Writing Fellowship.

Doller is the author of Fauxhawk (Wesleyan University Press, 2015); Dead Ahead (Fence Books, 2010); FAQ (Ahsahta Press, 2009); and Radio, Radio (Louisiana State University Press, 2001), which was selected by Susan Howe for the 2000 Walt Whitman Award. 

Doller has taught at the Iowa Writers’ Workshop, West Virginia University, and Denison University, and he served as the distinguished visiting professor at Boise State University in 2007. He is the coeditor of the Kuhl House Contemporary Poetry Series at the University of Iowa Press and is both vice editor and designer of 1913 a journal of forms and 1913 Press.

Doller is an associate professor at the University of California, San Diego, and lives in North Park, San Diego.