Helen Benedict |
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Helen Benedict ProfessorPhone#: 212-854-3622 hb22@columbia.edu |
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Professor Benedict is a novelist and journalist specializing in the Iraq war, women's issues, race, and literature. Her most recent nonfiction book is The Lonely Soldier: The Private War of Women Serving in Iraq, published in April 2009 by Beacon Press. In November, 2009, her new novel, The Edge of Eden, will be released by Soho Press. Her play, "The Lonely Soldier Monologues," was produced in March at a New York City theater, and will be performed twice more in September, 2009 at La Mama E.T.C. in New York. Over the past year, Professor Benedict has published 12 articles about women soldiers and the Iraq War, including an Op-Ed in The New York Times in May 2008, pieces on BBC and The Nation Web sites, and articles in Ms., In These Times, Columbia, and elsewhere. In March 2007, she published a piece on the sexual assault of women soldiers in Salon magazine, which won the James Aronson Award for Social Justice Journalism. Professor Benedict's other nonfiction books include Virgin or Vamp: How the Press Covers Sex Crimes (1992), an analysis of the way sex, race and class bias affect the coverage of rape; Portraits in Print (1991), a collection of profiles; and Recovery: How to Survive Sexual Assault (1985, 1994). Her earlier novels include The Opposite of Love (Fall, 2007), The Sailor's Wife (2000), Bad Angel (1996, 1997) and A World Like This (1990). She has worked as a newspaper feature writer in London and California, has written for magazines including The New York Times Book Review, The Washington Post, Poets & Writers, and The Women's Review of Books, and is widely anthologized. She has received fellowships from Yaddo, MacDowell, the Virginia Center of the Arts, and the Freedom Forum. Read articles by Helen Benedict The Plight of Women Soldiers, The Nation |
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