Benjamin Renné

Benjamin Renné is a Term Assistant Professor of English at George Mason University. He teaches first-year composition in the English Department and speculative literature/art in the Honors College. He earned his MFA in Creative Writing from George Mason University and his poetry has appeared in Juked, Heavy Feather Review, Frontier Poetry, Ghost Proposal, and more. His manuscript, "Fragments of a Solar Phenomenon", was a finalist for the 2023 Four Way Books Levis Prize in Poetry.

Education

• MFA, Creative Writing (Poetry), George Mason University (2017)
• BA, English (Poetry) and Philosophy, George Mason University (2013)

Selected Publications

• "Elegy: New Weather", "Elegy: New Altars", and "Elegy: New Songs", Version9 (October 2025)
• “Inversion in Green”, Frontier Poetry (June 2025)
• “Excerpts from Thresholds”, Heavy Feather Review (April 2025)
• “Elegy: New Landscapes” and “Elegy: New Light”, Prelude (Oct 2021)
• “Ouroboros”, Juked (Nov 2020)
• “Old Town Market”, Epigraph (Sep 2020)

Courses Taught

• ENGH 101: Composition
• HNRS 122: Ruins of the Apocalypse (Reading the Arts)
• ENGH 201: Reading and Writing About Texts (themed section on "Monsters and Transformations")
• ENGH 202: Texts and Contexts (themed section on "War Stories")
• ENGH 396: Introduction to Creative Writing