Ben Doller

Ben Doller (previously Doyle) (born 1973 Warsaw, New York) is an American poet and writer.

Life Ben Doller is the author of several books of poetry. He currently teaches at University of California, San Diego.

He graduated from the State University of New York at Oswego, and West Virginia University.

He received his MFA from the Iowa Writers' Workshop, where he was awarded a Teaching-Writing Fellowship.

Doller has taught at the Iowa Writers' Workshop, West Virginia University, Denison University, Antioch University, and in 2007, was distinguished visiting professor at Boise State University.

He lives in San Diego with his partner & collaborator, the poet & writer Sandra Doller (formerly Miller). In 2007, the two merged their last names: Doyle + Miller = Doller.

Awards Recipient of the 2000 Walt Whitman Award

Works "taxes"; "Oust Manacle"; "Same Problem", Coconut 10, October 2007 "big deference betwixt throwing things and throwing things away"; "A POINTING HABIT"; "NICETIES"; "CHICKENSTRIPS", La Petite Zine

Added to The &NOW Awards 2: The Best Innovative Writing. &NOW Books, 2013.

Poetry books

2010. Fauxhawk, Wesleyan University Press (2015).

Anthology