RS Benedict’s work has appeared in The Magazine of Fantasy & Science Fiction, Blood Knife, Fangoria, Current Affairs, Typebar Magazine, The New Haven Review, Seize the Press, The New Haven Independent, The Very Best of the Best: 35 Years of the Year’s Best Science Fiction, and many other publications. After studying linguistics at Yale, the author spent a couple of years teaching ESL in China before returning to the Hudson Valley to become a bureaucrat.
Published short fiction include “Tiddies” (Typebar) “The Empath” (Blood Knife), “Beelzebub” (The New Haven Review), “Clara Vox” (Broad Knowledge: 35 Women Up To No Good), “The Fairy Egg,” “All of Me,” “Morbier,” Water God’s Dog,” and “My English Name” (The Magazine of Fantasy & Science Fiction).
Published Fiction
Published nonfiction includes “Don’t Expect Art to Save Us” (Current Affairs), “The Mortifying Ordeal of Being Known: Horror in the Influencer Age” (Fangoria), “The Sterility of Safe Fiction: Who Are We Protecting?” (Seize the Press), a short-lived review column for The New Haven Independent, and “Everyone Is Beautiful and No One Is Horny” (Blood Knife).
The author has been known to enjoy shouting into the void in an activity known as podcasting. In addition to having their own podcast for a time, called Rite Gud, the author has also appeared on Connecticut NPR’s The Colin McEnroe Show, Podside Picnic, Current Affairs, Horror Vanguard, Death // Sentence, Endless Beautiful, and No-Cartridge.