Cara Benson

Cara Benson is the author of the poetry collection (made) (BookThug, 2010) and “Funny. Considering how heated it was.”, which is forthcoming in 2012. She is a 2011 New York Foundation for the Arts Fellow in Poetry and is included in 2011 Best American Poetry.  “The Secret of Milk,” her treatise on the possibilities of lyric advocacy within the tainted world of agribusiness, is out from eohippus labs. Benson is a committee member of the PEN Prison Writing Program and teaches poetry in a NY State Prison.