Benjamin Rachlin is the author of Ghost of the Innocent Man: A True Story of Trial and Redemption (Little, Brown), which was named a best book of 2017 by NPR, The San Francisco Chronicle, Library Journal, and Shelf Awareness; an Editors’ Choice at The New York Times Book Review; and a finalist for the Dayton Literary Peace Prize.

His stories and essays have appeared in The New York Times Magazine, The New Republic, The Atlantic, Pacific Standard, Virginia Quarterly Review, TIME, Orion, and LitHub.

Benjamin grew up in New Hampshire and lives on the north shore of Massachusetts.