Ben Hoffman
Ben Hoffman’s fiction has been published in the Chicago Tribune, Granta, and Zoetrope: All-Story. He has lived in Pennsylvania, Massachusetts, Washington, D.C., North Carolina, Michigan, Wisconsin, California, and now Chicago, where he hates the weather.
— From January 2019
Fiction
The Making
We made eyes across the room. We made each other’s acquaintance, whatever that means. I made a move, you made a face. We made out anyway. We made bad pottery, we made bad jokes.
January 2019
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