Green Soldiers by John Bensko

Green Soldiers by John Bensko

John Bensko

1949-present

John Bensko was born in Birmingham, Alabama. His father's career as a geologist took the family to Manchester, Kentucky, and Tulsa, Oklahoma, before they returned to Alabama and settled in Decatur. Bensko attended St. Louis University, Auburn University, and the University of Alabama, where he earned a BA and an MFA. He studied at Florida State University for his PhD, writing his dissertation on "Narrative in the Modern Short Poem." His debut volume of poetry, Green Soldiers, was chosen by Richard Hugo for the Yale Younger Poets Series. Bensko taught at Old Dominion University and later at Rhodes College, where he established the creative writing program. Currently he is Professor of English at the University of Memphis, where he has developed the MFA and the undergraduate creative writing programs. Through the Study Abroad Office, he has launched a summer program in creative writing at the Universidad de Alicante. He is married to the fiction writer Cary Holladay and has a son, Thomas Bensko, from a previous marriage.

Alabama Authors of the 19th & 20th Centuries, edited by Beverley Park Rilett, http://AlabamaAuthors.org

1981

Green Soldiers. New Haven, CT; Yale University Press, 1981.

AL Book Collection

Bensko, John, “Green Soldiers by John Bensko,” Alabama Authors of the 19th & 20th Centuries, accessed October 5, 2024, https://alabamaauthors.org/items/show/7696.