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MUGBAIT w/ Sandra and Ben Doller
Ben Doller (previously Doyle) (born 1973 Warsaw, New York) is an American poet and writer.
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Life
Ben Doller is the author or several books of poetry. He currently teaches at UC San Diego.
He graduated from the State University of New York at Oswego, and West Virginia University.
He received his MFA from the Iowa Writers' Workshop, where he was awarded a Teaching-Writing Fellowship.
Doller has taught at the Iowa Writers' Workshop, West Virginia University, Denison University, Antioch University, and in 2007, was Distinguished Visiting Professor at Boise State University.
He was formerly a co-editor of the Kuhl House Contemporary Poetry Series at the University of Iowa Press (until 2010), and vice-editor and designer of 1913 a journal of forms, and 1913 Press. He read at AWP 2009.
He lives in San Diego with his partner & collaborator, the poet & writer Sandra Doller (formerly Miller). In 2007, the two merged their last names: Doyle + Miller = Doller.
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Poetry books
Forthcoming book: Fauxhawk from Wesleyan University Press (2015).