Benjamin Dodds is a Sydney-based poet who grew up in the Riverina of New South Wales. ​ His work has appeared in Best Australian Poems, Stars Like Sand: Australian Speculative Poetry, Meanjin, Southerly, Cordite, Rabbit, The Sun Herald and The Australian, and has also been broadcast on ABC Radio National. ​ Benjamin co-developed and co-judged the inaugural Quantum Words Science Poetry Competition associated with Writing NSW’s 2018 science-writing festival of the same name. He is also a poetry reader for Overland.