Writer's Biography

In one story, Benjamin C. Roy Cory Garrett was born on a mountain, gendered to be a man, and grew up to travel and write himself as far as his imagination would carry him.

For years this meant hiking, riding or floating anywhere he could get to, while assembling a large collection of tales in towns nestled up against the Pacific Ocean all the way across the pond to the English Channel. In the course of his travels, Benjamin has worn the professional disguises of: camp counselor, overnight gas station attendant, musician, performance artist, career student, electronic cable maker, component purchaser, quality assurance manager, gravel shoveler, farmer, political dissident, professor, but always in his core, writer. This Benjamin C. Roy Cory Garrett is now a graduate from the University of Central Arkansas MFA Writing Workshop and an instructor of writing at Lansing Community College, as well as an explorer of writing digital media through the Black Unicorn Press.

In the same but different story, Benjamin C. Roy Cory Garrett is a collective identity of dreams, anxieties and desperate prayers working, sometimes together, to challenge the agents of oppression and support the operatives of resistance, compassion and creative expression. This identity doesn’t so much resist labels, as recognize them as constructed costumes that sometimes must be worn or cast off as necessary to create social and political opportunities for personal and collaborative liberation.

In this narrative revision, multiple Benjamin C. Roy Cory Garrett’s have existed at the same time, in spaces thousands of miles apart, and a presskit becoming a Benjamin C. Roy Cory Garrett, called "I became Benjamin C. Roy Cory Garrett by accident, and you can too!" is available by request from the Black Unicorn Press.

Regardless of whether either of these tales best entangle all Benjamin C. Roy Cory Garretts into the most truth, The Benjamin C. Roy Cory Garrett responsible for this website most frequently identifies with the pronoun “I” and enjoys writing in every genre and form I can get my senses on. When I discover a new form that interests me, I enjoy testing the limits between genres and media into a category best summarized as “creative” writing.

Currently, I find myself engaged in a writing project of book-length proportions where several of my constructed-selves explore the stories, mysteries, and uncertainties of a women's prison constructed here in the State of Arkansas, as well as lecturing on the harm caused by institutional plagiarism policies and what they can be replaced with.