Benjamin is a writer and editor who excels at distilling and translating complex subjects for a broad audience.
He is executive editor of MIT Horizon, a learning platform on modern technologies from MIT. He has also written for The New York Times Magazine, The Atlantic, The New Republic, The Boston Globe, TIME, Orion, Pacific Standard, and Virginia Quarterly Review.
His book GHOST OF THE INNOCENT MAN: A TRUE STORY OF TRIAL AND REDEMPTION, about wrongful convictions and the bipartisan movement to right them, was named a best book of the year by NPR, The San Francisco Chronicle, and Library Journal; an Editors’ Choice at The New York Times Book Review; and a finalist for the Dayton Literary Peace Prize.
Benjamin grew up in New Hampshire and lives on the north shore of Massachusetts.