Benjamin Lorr lives in a small apartment in the West Village of Manhattan. For the six years prior to writing Hell-Bent, he taught high school science and sex education in Bushwick, Brooklyn. He currently consults with New York City public schools. At MacDowell he finished a draft of his second book, The Secret Lives of Groceries.
Discipline:
Literature – nonfiction
Benjamin Lorr
Discipline:
Literature – nonfiction
Region: Brooklyn, NY
MacDowell Fellowships: 2012, 2018
More:
www.benjaminlorr.net
Studios
Calderwood
Benjamin Lorr worked in the Calderwood studio.
In the winter of 1998, motivated by his passion for reading, Stanford Calderwood donated funds for a new writers’ studio. Burr-McCallum Architects of Williamstown, MA, provided the award-winning design in 1999; and the construction of the handsome studio was completed in time for its first artist to arrive early in 2000. With a series of double-hung casement…