Joe Foley Photography

Jeff Bender is a graduate of Columbia’s School of the Arts and Davidson College.

He’s a winner of Richard Hugo House’s New Works Competition and an Artist Trust grant, and he’s held residencies at the Edward F. Albee Foundation (Montauk, N.Y.), the Jentel Artist Residency Program (Banner, Wyo.), the Norman Mailer Writers Colony (Provincetown, Mass.), and Seattle Arts & Lectures.

He lives outside his hometown of Philadelphia with his wife and 2 kids.