ABOUT 

Benjamin Dodds grew up in the NSW Riverina and studied at the University of Sydney.

 

He is the author of three poetry collections, Regulator (Puncher & Wattmann Poetry, 2014), Airplane Baby Banana Blanket (Recent Work Press, 2020) and The Ease of Eggs (5 Islands Press, 2025).

 

Airplane Baby Banana Blanket was shortlisted for both the 2021 Judith Wright Calanthe Award and the international Poetry Book Award. Benjamin’s work has appeared widely, including in Rabbit, Meanjin, Southerly, Best Australian Poems, and Best Australian Science Writing, and has also been broadcast on ABC Radio National.

 

Benjamin has judged the Quantum Words Science Poetry Competition and the Val Vallis Award, and has been a poetry reader for Overland. Off the page, he has worked as a laboratory technician with the NSW Department of Agriculture, spent time as a clerk in a video store, taught English and Italian at the secondary school level, and, for nearly two decades, has been a proud public primary school teacher.