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.
Disciplines:
Literature – nonfiction
Benjamin Lorr
Disciplines:
Literature – nonfiction
Region: Brooklyn, NY
Residencies: 2012, 2018
More:
www.benjaminlorr.net
Studios
Calderwood
Benjamin Lorr worked in the Calderwood studio.
Support the 31 studios on MacDowell's campus by making a gift right now, during our Spring Appeal! In the winter of 1998, motivated by his passion for reading, Stanford Calderwood donated funds for a new writers’ studio. Stanford Calderwood, a newspaperman in his youth who later went on to establish an…