Mackintosh Bennett writes literary fiction.
His work ***playful, destabilizing, and formally inventive*** often examines repression, censorship, and the quiet absurdities of ordinary life. He leans towards provocative explorations of American identity and is most drawn towards stories that teeter on the fragile boundary between the mundane and the strange, the everyday and the catastrophic. Raised on the campus of a New England boarding school, his writing is shaped by a healthy skepticism of authority, hypocrisy, and polite pretenses. His work draws inspiration from experimental fiction, contemporary art, Western philosophy, 2000s skate culture, and psychedelic music.
He is a recipient of the Davin Polk Fund for the Arts, a judge for the annual Robert Traver Award and has received funding from the Hopkins Center and the Guarini School of Graduate and Advanced Studies. 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.
Mackintosh Bennett writes literary fiction.
His work ***playful, destabilizing, and formally inventive*** often examines repression, censorship, and the quiet absurdities of ordinary life. He leans towards provocative explorations of American identity and is most drawn towards stories that teeter on the fragile boundary between the mundane and the strange, the everyday and the catastrophic. Raised on the campus of a New England boarding school, his writing is shaped by a healthy skepticism of authority, hypocrisy, and polite pretenses. His work draws inspiration from experimental fiction, contemporary art, Western philosophy, 2000s skate culture, and psychedelic music.
He is a recipient of the Davin Polk Fund for the Arts, a judge for the annual Robert Traver Award and has received funding from Hopkins Center and the Guarini School of Graduate and Advanced Studies. 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.