Ben Brooker

Ben Brooker is a writer, editor, critic, playwright, essayist, and dramaturge living and working on the unceded lands of the Wurundjeri People of the Kulin Nation. He has a Bachelor of Arts (Hons) from Flinders University and an Advanced Diploma of Professional Writing from the Adelaide College of the Arts. His work has been featured by Overland, Australian Book Review, RealTime, The Saturday Paper, Meanjin, and others. Ben was an inaugural Sydney Review of Books Emerging Critics Fellow and served on the board of Writers SA from May 2021 to September 2022. He is currently working on his first book, a cultural history of psychedelics in Australia. Find him on Twitter @BenMBrooker.