Benjamin Buchholz

Benjamin Buchholz is the author of the novels One Hundred and One Nights (Back Bay Books/Little, Brown) and Sirens of Manhattan (Bradley Publishing), and the nonfiction books Private Soldiers (Wisconsin Historical Society Press) and The Tightening Dark (Da Capo). His short stories have appeared in Storyglossia, Hobart, Mad Hatter’s Review, and Prime Number Magazine, and have been anthologized in the Dzanc Press Best of the Web collections. His nonfiction has appeared in Parameters, Military Review, Infantry, and The Writer. He has served as a foreign area officer and U.S. Army attaché in Oman, Yemen, Uzbekistan, Germany (in support of Ukraine) and lectured at Princeton University. He holds a BA from the University of Wisconsin-Madison, completed the Omani Royal Air Force Staff College in Arabic Language, and holds MAs in Near East Studies from Princeton University and Strategic Studies from the US Army War College.