Benjamin Mason is an Australian nomad whose most recent home was Fremantle (Walyalup), on Noongar Boodjar, Western Australia. Previously he has been a furniture removalist, a factory worker, a cleaner, a bartender, a high school teacher, hitchhiker, a slam poet, and a shanty singer with The Anchormen. He currently lives in Iowa City, where he is a second year fiction candidate in the Iowa Writers Workshop and teaches in Creative Writing.