Benjamin Renne

Benjamin Renne

Benjamin Renne

Assistant Professor

Composition: First-year composition; online writing pedagogies; creative writing (poetry); speculative poetry and science fiction

Benjamin Renné is a Term Assistant Professor of English at George Mason University. He teaches first-year composition in the English Department and speculative literature/art in the Honors College.

He earned his MFA in Creative Writing from George Mason University and his poetry has appeared in Juked, Heavy Feather Review, Frontier Poetry, Ghost Proposal, and more. His manuscript, "Fragments of a Solar Phenomenon", was a finalist for the 2023 Four Way Books Levis Prize in Poetry.

Selected Publications

Poetry

  • "Elegy: New Weather", "Elegy: New Altars", and "Elegy: New Songs", Version9 (October 2025)
  • “Inversion in Green”, Frontier Poetry (June 2025)
  • “Excerpts from Thresholds”, Heavy Feather Review (April 2025)
  • “Elegy: New Landscapes” and “Elegy: New Light”, Prelude (Oct 2021)
  • “Ouroboros”, Juked (Nov 2020)
  • “Old Town Market”, Epigraph (Sep 2020)

Expanded Publication List

Poetry

  • "Elegy: New Weather", "Elegy: New Altars", and "Elegy: New Songs", Version9 (October 2025)
  • “Inversion in Green”, Frontier Poetry (June 2025)
  • “Excerpts from Thresholds”, Heavy Feather Review (April 2025)
  • “Elegy: New Landscapes” and “Elegy: New Light”, Prelude (Oct 2021)
  • “Ouroboros”, Juked (Nov 2020)
  • “Old Town Market”, Epigraph (Sep 2020)
  • “Sonnet for Alexandria”, Cleaver Magazine (Sep 2019)
  • “Excerpt from Nostos”, Ghost Proposal (July 2019)
  • “Myth (Ascending)” and “As if the Suburban Sky Had Wounded the Earth”, CatheXis Northwest Press (Dec 2018)
  • “Kepler Fugue”; “On the Green Tumult We Slept”; “Preludium”; and “Clarification of the Origin of the Modern Opposition Between Physicalist Objectivism and Transcendental Subjectivism”, The RavensPerch (Sep 2017)
  • “Hypothesis”; “Soon”; “Educator of Mimesis”; “The Golem”; and “Electron Shells”, GFT Press (2017)
  • “Sycorax”, SLAB (2016)

Courses Taught

ENGH 101: Composition

HNRS 122: Ruins of the Apocalypse (Reading the Arts)

ENGH 201: Reading and Writing About Texts (themed section on "Monsters and Transformations")

ENGH 202: Texts and Contexts (themed section on "War Stories")

ENGH 396: Introduction to Creative Writing

Education

MFA in Creative Writing (Poetry), George Mason University (2017)

BA in English (Poetry) and Philosophy, George Mason University (2013)