Ross Benjamin is a writer and a translator of German literature living in Brooklyn.
His work has appeared in The New York Times, Bookforum, The Nation, and other publications. His translation of Friedrich Hölderlin Hyperion has recently been published by Archipelago Books, and his translation of Kevin Vennemann;s Nahe Jedenew (Close to Jedenew) is forthcoming from Melville House. He was a 2003-2004 Fulbright Scholar in Berlin.