Enjoy my newest short story in Clarkesworld Magazine issue 195!
Author: Ben Berman Ghan
Fiction for November”Wild Dream Country” & “Look at the Birds”
two new stories for November! Read "Wild Dream Country" & "Look at the Birds"
Tales for Spooky Season
Something that Bites & The Church of the Hot Pink Jesus: two new tales for Halloween!
With Empathy and Imagination: a Review of Everything For Everyone by M.E. O’Brien & Eman Abdelhadi
With Empathy and Imagination: a Review of Everything For Everyone: An Oral History of the New York Commune, 2052–2072by M.E. O’Brien & Eman Abdelhadi
Ben Berman Ghan
Under Review:
Everything For Everyone: An Oral History of the New York Commune, 2052-2072. M.E. O’Brien & Eman Abdelhadi. Common Notions, August 2, 2022.

The world loves a good apocalypse story. We lap up imagery of dystopian violence, romanticize the aesthetics of every-man-for-themselves destruction. But perhaps imagining these cruel oblivions has become just a little too easy. Maybe the real challenge in a time of (so many different) crises is to imagine a path forward beyond destruction — one where human beings do not turn their backs on the hard work necessary to live beyond our time of social, political, and ecological strife.
The future that M.E. O’Brien and Eman Abdelhadi present in Everything for Everyone: An Oral History of the…
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What We See at Word on the Street 2022!
Join me at Word on the Street 2022!
Bookings open
Hello everyone! Just a quick update to announce that my bookings have reopened. If you are looking for an editor or interested in working with me, you can check out all that I offer via the editing services tab of my website.
Longing for What We Never Had: A Review of Emily St John Mandel’s Sea of Tranquility
Longing for What We Never Had: A Review of Emily St John Mandel’s Sea of Tranquility
Ben Berman Ghan
Under Review:
Sea of Tranquility. Emily St. John Mandel. Knopf, April 5, 2022.

Within Emily St John Mandel’s Sea of Tranquility, time is a mountain you climb, callouses forming along tired and bloody fingers, giddy from the knowledge a long fall might await you, dread building. However, when at last you reach the peak, you find your toughened hands the perfect tools for descent. Climbing back down again can be done with confidence, enmeshed in the surety that soft ground awaits, and everything that was once unknown can now be seen with comfortable perspective and clarity.
This isMandel’s sixth novel, building on the themes and premises of Station Eleven(2014) and The Glass Hotel(2020). Its connection to those previous works is sometimes deeply meaningful, and sometimes only…
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New Poetry in the ongoing project!
I'd like to thank Coven Editions for publishing four poems of mine, all apart of my ongoing project of poetic homages to graphic novels!
I’m going back to school again, again!
I am proud to share that I will be beginning a Ph.D. in English Literature this coming fall at The University of Calgary in the fall of 2022! I am very grateful for the opportunity to resume and further my studies, especially in a department so keenly interested in the critical and creative sides of … Continue reading I’m going back to school again, again!
After Crisis – short story for the holidays
Thick fear spoiled above the oily rooftops. A sterile and orderly world gave way to a teeming swamp. Wildness took root in the heart of thingsPerhaps, there was no after Crisis, but only deceptive periods of rest, where apocalypse dozed and waited until we believed in something called normal again. Excerpt from “After Crisis” Enjoy … Continue reading After Crisis – short story for the holidays