Ben Jackson (Fiction 2018) published a story in American Short Fiction! “Karst” won second place in ASF’s American Short(er) Fiction contest. Ben says that the story emerged from his relationship with his grandmother. Read “Karst” (or hear Ben read it) here.
Congratulations, Ben!
Ben Jackson’s writing has appeared in the London Review of Books, American Short Fiction online, the Los Angeles Review of Books, West Branch, the Awl and the Guardian, among others. He received an MFA in fiction from Boston University, and he’s working on a novel set in California and in Ireland, where he grew up.