Benjamin Swett

Benjamin Swett is the author of Route 22 and New York City of Trees, winner of the 2013 New York City Book Award for Photography. Essays from The Picture Not Taken have been published or are forthcoming in Agni, Salmagundi, Orion, Fiction, and Prism International. Three of them (“The Picture Not Taken,” “VR,” and “My Father’s Green Album”) were chosen as Notable Essays in Best American Essays 2020, 2021, and 2022. “What I Wanted to Tell You About the Wind” was the Editor’s Choice essay in the Spring 2021 issue of Orion.
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