As a child growing up in the South, journalist, storyteller and playwright Benji Carr developed an eye for the bizarre and quirky, which provided all of the fodder for the stories he told his friends and family. His eclectic body of work, which includes personal tales of struggle and survival, or fiction about cannibal lunch ladies, puppet romances, drag queen funerals, and perverted killer circus clowns – was featured in The Guardian, ArtsATL and Pembroke Magazine. 

He also told these stories at Carapace, The Moth and Write Club Atlanta. Onstage, his pieces were presented at the Center for Puppetry Arts, the Alliance Theatre, and as part of the Samuel French Off-Off Broadway Short Play Festival in Manhattan. 

He lives in Atlanta and helps run the online literary magazine, Gutwrench Journal. Impacted is his debut novel.