Benjamin Gantcher

Biography

Benjamin Gantcher is a Pushcart Prize nominee and the recipient of a LABA fellowship as well as residencies from the UCross Foundation and the Omi International Arts Center. He is the author of the poetry collections The Coronation of the Ghost (2025), Snow Farmer (2017), a finalist in several contests, and the poetry chapbook Strings of Math and Custom (2013). Gantcher’s first poetry manuscript, If a Lettuce, earned finalist honors in the National Poetry Series and Bright Hill Press contests. His poems and essays have appeared in many journals, including Tin House, Slate, Rhino, Guernica, The Brooklyn Rail, and DIAGRAM. Gantcher was Poet of the Week at Brooklyn Poets and is a former poetry editor of failbetter.

Published Works

The Coronation of the Ghost (Cornerstone Press, 2025)
Snow Farmer (CW Books, 2017)
Strings of Math and Custom (Beard of Bees Press, 2013)
If a Lettuce (blurbfree books, 2007)

Links to Sample Works

• Matter, “What’s Bad”
• Guernica, “it feels like tattling”
• Archipelago, “Swamp Laurel”