Mackintosh Bennett writes literary fiction.
His work ***playful, destabilizing, and formally inventive*** often examines repression, censorship, and the quiet absurdities of ordinary life. He is most drawn towards stories that teeter on the fragile boundary between the mundane and the strange, the uncanny and the catastrophic. Raised by faculty of a New England boarding school, his writing is shaped by a skepticism of authority, hypocrisy, and polite pretenses. His work draws inspiration from experimental fiction, contemporary art, Western philosophy, 2000s skate culture, and psychedelic music.
His creative work has been supported by the Hopkins Center and the Davin Polk Fund for the Arts. He currently is finishing his MA at Dartmouth College, where he serves as a teaching assistant for First-Year Writing.
He divides his time between Vermont and Cape Cod.
